Table of Contents
Contributors
Aaron Betsky; Michael Brichtord; David Jacobson; Kelly Klaasmeyer; Ben Koush; Rafael Longoria; Jennifer Malhieu; Barry Moore; Mark Oberholzer; Peter Papademelriou; Christof Spieler; Rives T. Taylor; and Bruce C. Webb.
Cite 64
Summer 2005
Editor’s Note
Cite 64 was guest edited by Rafael Longoria and Rives T. Taylor. In "Mapping Houston," Longoria writes:
When Le Corbusicr proclaimed "the airplane indicts the city" in his 1935 hook Aircraft, in which he predicted the bird's-eye view made available by airplanes would change the design profession, he could have hardly imagined the tools that would be at the disposal of every architect and planner just seven decades later. Satellite images, geographic information systems (GIS), digital photography, computer graphics, and the internet have transformed design practices. It is not only the amazing amount of information available that has made the difference, but how quickly and inexpensively that information can he accessed, reconfigured, and disseminated. All this technology is impacting the way we understand Houston. Visit any architecture studio at Rice University or the University of Houston and you will see walls covered with maps of the city and aerial views downloaded from the internet. The ritual trip to the Houston City Hall Annex to pick up the required monumentation maps—remember diazo prints?—at the start of every project has become obsolete. Now it is all available online, in multiple versions and mostly free ot charge.
Rafael Longoria