Andrew Herscher

Violence Taking Place

The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict

While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "...

The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit

Intense attention has been paid to Detroit as a site of urban crisis. This crisis, however, has not only yielded the massive devaluation of real estat...

Displacements

Architecture and Refugee

In architectural history, just as in global politics, refugees have tended to exist as mere human surplus; histories of architecture, then, have usual...

Under the Campus, the Land - Anishinaabe Futuring, Colonial Non-Memory, and the Origin of the University of Michigan

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Asymmetric Labors

The Economy of Architecture in Theory and Practice

The scenes are familiar ones: the scribe of the gallery plaque, the bespectacled figure hurrying from the archive to the classroom, the designer reluc...