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June 2019

  1. Have Clock, Will Travel

October 2016

  1. A Burglar’s Guide to TV

June 2016

  1. Glitch City
  2. Cloud Constructor
  3. The Sky-Math Garden
  4. The London Time Ball
  5. “The entire city can be considered as one large house”
  6. Immersive and Oceanic

May 2016

  1. L.A. Recalculated
  2. The Soft Spot
  3. Beginning at Arcs, Centered by Lines
  4. Burglary in Context
  5. The Voids Beneath
  6. Machine Quarantines and “Persistent Drones”
  7. Reminder...
  8. Three More Events
  9. Book Touring

April 2016

  1. Bacteria Rule Everything Around Me
  2. “This is how you can shape a metropolis for generations”
  3. Books Received, April 2016
  4. The Burglar's Guide Has Arrived

March 2016

  1. Panopticops
  2. A Burglar’s Guide to the City

January 2016

  1. New Digs

December 2015

  1. The Four-Floor War
  2. “A City on Mars is Possible. That’s What All This is About.”
  3. Pivot
  4. Grid Corrections
  5. Yodaville
  6. Whale Song Bunker
  7. A Cordon of Hives
  8. Comparative Astral Isochrones
  9. Ghost Streets of Los Angeles
  10. Howl
  11. In the Garden of 3D Printers
  12. Five Parises of Emptiness
  13. When those who it was built for are not present
  14. Marginalia
  15. Cereal Bags of the Stratosphere

November 2015

  1. Electronic Plantlife
  2. A Model Descent
  3. Dead Ringer
  4. Extract
  5. Shell
  6. Emerge
  7. Ghosting
  8. Shelter
  9. Shaft
  10. Lift
  11. Then we descend
  12. Computational Romanticism and the Dream Life of Driverless Cars

October 2015

  1. Landscapes of Drone Control
  2. L.A.T.B.D.
  3. Expedition Exhibition
  4. The Landscape Architecture of Crisis
  5. Occult Infrastructure and the "Funerary Teleportation Grid" of Greater London
  6. A Crack in Space-Time
  7. Human Chess
  8. The Drowned World

September 2015

  1. Liquid Quarries and Reefs On Demand
  2. Subterranean Saxophony
  3. Abandoned Mines, Slow Printing, and the Living Metal Residue of a Post-Human World
  4. Forest Megaphone
  5. Water & Power

August 2015

  1. Typographic Forestry and Other Landscapes of Translation
  2. Books Received
  3. Informational Topographics
  4. By the Mile
  5. "It's almost like he wanted to collect every map ever made"
  6. Abandoned Basements as Stormwater Basins
  7. Hacked Homes, Gas Attacks, and Panic Room Design
  8. Subterranean Lightning Brigade
  9. From Guns, Bridges
  10. Joyful Rendezvous Upon Pure Ice and Snow
  11. Landscapes of Inevitable Catastrophe
  12. Horse Skull Disco
  13. Full-Spectrum Mandala

July 2015

  1. Burglary & Rabies
  2. Horizon Line
  3. A Well-Tailored Landscape
  4. Pop up
  5. This Is Only A Test
  6. Village Design as Magnetic Storage Media
  7. Buy a Los Angeles Sidewalk Corner
  8. Driving on Mars and the Theater of Machines
  9. Touring the Gruen Transfer
  10. Lost Highways
  11. Slingshots of the Oceanic

June 2015

  1. Transecting Amsterdam
  2. A Vast Array of Props
  3. X Marks the Spot
  4. Greek Gods, Moles, and Robot Oceans
  5. Composite Archaeology

May 2015

  1. Manhattan Gyroscope
  2. National Color Test
  3. Culinary Air Pollution
  4. Beneath the Streets, Barrel Vaults
  5. The City Has Eyes

April 2015

  1. The Town That Creep Built
  2. Terrestrial Sonar
  3. An Artful Rearrangement of Darkness
  4. Box Kites, Planes, and Super-Ceilings
  5. Tree / House
  6. Mathematical Averages and the Landscape of the American Midwest
  7. Everything is Architecture
  8. Signal-Blocking Architecture and the Faraday Home
  9. Urban CAT Scan
  10. Infrastructure as Processional Space
  11. Shadowcaster
  12. Buy A Complex Of Submarine Pits
  13. Slope
  14. Gyroscopolis
  15. Silo

March 2015

  1. Models & Prototypes
  2. The Subterranean Celebrity Libido Labyrinth of Greater Hollywood
  3. Grimm City
  4. In a Pinch
  5. Solved by Knots
  6. Squeeze Play
  7. Palace of Water and Light
  8. Unconventional Sports Require Unconventional Spaces and Landscapes
  9. Whorled Maps
  10. Dropping Light
  11. The Los Angeles County Department of Ambient Music vs. The Superfires of Tomorrow
  12. To Reach Mars, Head North
  13. White House, Redux
  14. It Came From Below
  15. Intermediary Geologies
  16. Ghosts of Home Geography

February 2015

  1. American Mine
  2. Buy a Skyway
  3. The Conqueror Worm
  4. The Moving Mountain, or Terrain as Spectacle
  5. Low-Poly Tectonics
  6. Multimedia Phantoms And A/V Ghosts

January 2015

  1. Algorithms in the Wild
  2. The Electromagnetic Fortification of the Suburbs
  3. A Cenotaph for Tailings
  4. Colossal Cave Adventure
  5. Brooklyn Super Food
  6. Music for the Asset Bubble
  7. A City in the Glacier

December 2014

  1. Glitches in Spacetime, Frozen into the Built Environment
  2. Immaculate Ecologies
  3. Monumental
  4. Under London

November 2014

  1. The Neurological Side-Effects of 3D
  2. Space Noir
  3. Just-in-Case Informatics
  4. Art Arm

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