In the latest for JAE Online, adjunct assistant professor of architecture and urban history Clelia Pozzi reviews “Style and Solitude: The History of an Architectural Problem,” written by Mari Hvattum. Head over to www.jaeonline.org/issue-articl... to read her insights.

In the latest for JAE Online, Associate Professor Carlos A. Reimers reviews the book “Nueva Vivienda: New Housing Paradigms in Mexico,” written by Jesús Vassallo and Sebastián López Cardozo. Read more: bit.ly/4mAzZFn

“Made in Iowa” documents the design and construction of a single brick wall during a semester-long studio course. During the studio, students constructed an eight-foot-by-eight-foot brick rainscreen using waste materials to reduce cement content. Read More: bit.ly/44R9oxA

In JAE 79.1 “Archive of Lost Mountains,” architect and assistant professor Brent Sturlaugson highlights his work toward an online catalog of drawings, data and models that documents the destruction left in the way of coal mining in Central Appalachia. Visit bit.ly/3G7fJvn to learn more.

In JAE 79.2 “Assembling Ground Terrestrial Pedagogies for a Regenerative Urbanism,” author Anne Weber shares how methods of observing, representing and designing through ground offer an alternative to extractive relationships between the surface and subsurface. Read more: bit.ly/4eo7mZa

In the latest for JAE Online, Samantha Solano, professional landscape architect and assistant professor of landscape architecture, reviews the book “Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative Global Solutions” by Galen Newman and Zixu Qiao. Visit bit.ly/4e9UKon to read the full review.

In JAE 79.1 “Participatory Monitoring”, author Linda Schilling Cuellar uses a Chilean copper mine as a case study to consider how spatial disciplines might learn from and assist in supporting monitoring activities for this new environmental public. Visit bit.ly/44424gF to read more.

In “Marooned Between Land and Water,” artist Monique Verdin reflects on interconnected sites in the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Basin and her collaborative efforts with the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo network of Indigenous Gardeners and the Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange. Read here: bit.ly/3SL5bEY

In the latest for JAE Online, architect and associate professor of architecture Emilie Taylor Welty reviews Socializing Architecture: Top Down Bottom Up by Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman. Visit www.jaeonline.org/issue-articl... to read more.

In JAE 79.1 “Antonio Raimondi’s Cartographies for ‘Progress’”, Maria Alejandra Linares Trelles examines the titular map using critical mapping techniques to reveal its biopolitical implications while bringing forward otherwise obscured Indigenous cartographic knowledge. Read more: bit.ly/3HiIGVu

In “Insurgent Geology,” Mélanie Louterbach critiques geology as an extractive and neocolonial discipline and activity through alternative geosocial practices, and more in a series of design interventions along the infamous Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Visit bit.ly/451UC7T to read on.

Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos.bsky.social) is the author of the upcoming book, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. In JAE 79.1 “In Conversation with Thea Riofrancos,” theme editor Zannah Matson interviews Riofrancos to discuss her research. Read more: bit.ly/4mnHgJ7

In this introduction from the theme editors, Neeraj Bhatia, Zannah Matson, Jane Mah Hutton & Brittany Utting share insights on bringing JAE 79.1 “Architecture Beyond Extraction” to print. Visit www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... to read the full piece.

JAE 79:1 “Architecture Beyond Extraction” is now available online for free with Open Access through August 13. ⁠ ⁠ Visit lnkd.in/eGQQwjd5 to read critical examinations of the systems and processes of extraction that shape architecture, as well as work that highlights non-extractive practices. ⁠

Thanks to @thejaeonline.bsky.social and to Pablo Meninato for the thoughtful review of The Equitably Resilient City. www.jaeonline.org/issue-articl...

“My Electric Genealogy” is an evening-length solo performance that works through interdisciplinary artist Sarah Kanouse’s personal and collective inheritance of extractive twentieth-century energy infrastructures fashioned in unusually direct ways by her engineer grandfather. bit.ly/41lssRy

In JAE 78.2 “The Land of the Living Skies,” author Douglas Robb documents a pedagogical experiment—structured in the form of a graduate seminar—to trouble and problematize the design disciplines’ evolving relationship with CDR. Visit bit.ly/3EXDo0k to learn more.

“The ongoing settler-colonial legacy of resource extraction, paired with the current climate crisis, threatens the availability and security of housing, a basic need that the state, developers, and architects are ill-equipped to meet.”⁠ ⁠ Read JAE 78.2 “Living in Relation” for more: bit.ly/4hQf1Af

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 JAE Award recipients!⁠ The award-winning articles are available to the public for FREE through March 30. Please visit bit.ly/2025-JAE-Award to learn more and browse the open-access articles. ⁠

In JAE 78.2 “The Great EV Road Trip Journal,” author Dominic Boyer details his family's cross-country road trip from Hoston to Los Angeles in an EV, encouraging readers to ask themselves:  “Will the American road trip survive the EV transition?” Visit bit.ly/4iccQXE to read more.

In the latest for JAE Online, architecture lecturer Alexandra Oetzel reviews her experience visiting Girlroom, an immersive installation curated by Samiha Meem in Ohio State’s Knowlton Hall. Visit jaeonline.org/issue-articl... to read the full review. #JAE #JAEOnlineReview #ExhibtionReview

What role might aesthetics play in large-scale geo-engineering projects wherein the primary objective is landscape remediation? Read JAE 78.2 “Saline Dreams” for author Jason Payne's insights: bit.ly/40HpeYo #JAE #owenslake #ecology

In JAE 78.2 “Political Geographies of Rural Electrification,” author Micah Rutenberg maps a vivid snapshot that illustrates the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)’s role as an agent of environmental region-building. Visit bit.ly/4hKeBLi for more. #JAE #Energy #TVA #TennesseeValley

“A New Ecological Contract: Tools to See Otherwise was developed as a pedagogical framework to echo students’ concerns about the complicit nature of the architectural discipline in the systemic issues raised by the constitutional referendum process.” Read more: bit.ly/3CFmq61

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Nate Imai and Matthew Okazaki wrote "Seeking Redress: A History of Little Tokyo's San Pedro Firm Building," in the @thejaeonline.bsky.social "Infidelities issue. It's a great narrative on a century long resistance + resilience project in Los Angeles and can be read here, open access:

Min Kyung Lee reviews the book “Building Little Saigon: Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs” written by Erica Allen-Kim. Visit jaeonline.org/issue-articl... to read the full review. #JAE #JAEOnlineReview #BookReview #RefugeeUrbanism #LittleSaigon #CitiesandSuburbs

Annotated readings of (Un)Making Worlds by @joobilly.bsky.social & Rania Ghosn for my Architecture of Transitions studio; one of many articles from @thejaeonline.bsky.social 78:2 Wordling.Energy.Transitions we’re reading and using!

Adrian Lahoud, Dean of Architecture at RCA, wrote this piece - "Loss and Damange" for the Worlding. Energy. Transitions. issue of @thejaeonline.bsky.social (edited by Rania Ghosn and Billy Fleming). Worth a read, and relevant now more than ever. Open Access below:

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED The submission deadline for JAE 79:2 "Palestine” has been extended to February 3. There’s still time left to submit contributions in the categories of Essay, Design, Narrative, and Image. Please visit bit.ly/JAE-Fall-2025 to learn more.

Check out Pilbara Interregnum, a visual essay from Grandeza Studio in the Worlding. Energy. Transitions issue of @thejaeonline.bsky.social. The piece tracks material, discursive + symbolic colonial violences on and over bodies and territories in the Pilbara in Western Australia. Read it below:

January 21st is the submission deadline for JAE 79.2 “Palestine.” ⁠Contributors might map, represent, theorize, and historicize genocide, ecocide, spaciocide, terracide, and urbicide as practices of colonial erasure and unpack the way they appear and operate. Submit today: bit.ly/JAE-Fall-2025

JAE 78.2 “Owning a River: Whiteness, Property Rights, and Counter-Representations on the Colorado Plateau” explores the historical origins and contemporary implications of “nature” and “nation” within the Colorado Plateau. Visit bit.ly/4fQpDgH to read more.

In JAE 78.2 “Ouroboros,” authors Ala Tannir and Theodossis Issaias examine the Continuous Miner series, a collection of paintings and prints commissioned by the Joy Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Fortune magazine in May 1954. Please visit bit.ly/4gJl0pY to read more.

Boredom is often understood as an extravagance, a privilege of the wealthy classes. But could boredom also be a subversion of the capitalist default of productivity? I wrote Being Bored, a brief text for The Afterlife of Energy. Post-carbon and Feminist Post-work Politics @thejaeonline.bsky.social

4: Along with Amy Stelly, this conversation with Ginny (also in the WET issue of @thejaeonline.bsky.social) focused on her broader photography practice and project in the Gulf South and what it means to document the final days of America's fossil empire: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

2: Sticking with the WET issue of @thejaeonline.bsky.social: A discussion with Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, and @brettstory.bsky.social on the world-destroying systems of Canada's residential school system + America's carceral system: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With 38 hours or so left in 2024, here are all of my favorite things that I wrote/got published this year: 1: "(Un)Making Worlds", the introductory essay to Rania Ghosn and I's special issue of @thejaeonline.bsky.social titled "Worlding. Energy. Transitions." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In a discussion with artists Amy Stelly and Virginia Hanusik, JAE 78.2 theme editor Billy Fleming (@joobilly.bsky.social) explores their various practices and representational politics within the context of wording. ⁠Read the full interview: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From the @thejaeonline.bsky.social's the Infidelities issue - a text by Professor Nic Coetzer, about South African's first independent, non-profit School of Architecture - SEA - in light of ideas galvanized by the Rhodes Must Fall protests at the U. of Cape Town in 2015. Give it a read here:

In the latest JAE Online Review, Alissa Ujie Diamond explores J.T. Roane’s  debut book “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.” Read the full review here: www.jaeonline.org/issue-articl...

Everybody say hi and welcome @thejaeonline.bsky.social to Bluesky and the designer Starter Pack go.bsky.app/Li6GaRQ

Victoria Bugge Øye's (Snr. curator of Modern Arch, at the Ntnl. Museum of Art, Architecture + Design in Oslo) review of the exhibition, "Building to Heal: A New Architecture For Hospitals," curated by T. Vollmer, A Lepik, + L. Luksch is up! www.jaeonline.org/issue-articl... @thejaeonline.bsky.social

2 of 2: … “Pedagogies for a Broken World” issue, theme edited by Ana Miljački (MIT), Igor Marjanovic (Rice) and Jay Cephas (Princeton) Open Access at the link below:

From @thejaeonline.bsky.social vault: Dr. Thabisile Griffin's (a historian teaching at SCI-Arc) "Lessons from the Black Indigenous Atlantic," from the JAE's Reparations! issue - theme edited by Cruz Garcia, Nathalie Frankowski (+Ema Yuizarix) + V. Mitch McEwen. Check it out here:

6 weeks + 1 day to the deadline for this incredible CFP, for the @thejaeonline.bsky.social issue on Palestine, themed edited by Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoe Samudzi and Nick Estes. Reach out if you have any questions about submitting to any of the design content categories!

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for JAE 79:2 "Palestine."⁠ We invite contributions that document the architectural and spatial tools that participate in or are complicit in the imperial formations of settler-colonial apartheid and genocide. Visit bit.ly/JAE-Fall-2025 to learn more.

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for JAE 80:1 "Degrowth, Low-tech, and Alternative Hedonism."⁠ We seek submissions that forward alternative value systems and their consequent lifestyles and built environments. Visit bit.ly/JAE-Spring-2... to learn more.

JAE is a platform for architectural educators, scholars, designers, writers, and organizers committed to the ongoing transformation of architectural education and the culture of architectural research toward an inclusive, just, and sustainable future. Visit www.jaeonline.org for more.