1. Arkisnak
Co-founder architectural newspaper collab. with Isabelle de Metz (ongoing)
*Awarded Graham Foundation Organizational Grant, 2023
Arkisnak is a risograph-printed newspaper that offers bite-sized architectural musings and celebrates architects, artists, and makers of California's East Bay Area. Each issue captures the seasonality of California’s East Bay Area through opinion pieces, essays, reviews, reported work, academic articles, poetry, illustrations and more, created by and for our local arts and architecture community.
On right: “Arkisnak,” 1968. Photograph. Courtesy Environmental Design Archives / Marc Treib. Environmental Design Archives Exhibitions, http://exhibits.ced.berkeley.edu/items/show/298.
Issue 1: Delay of the Maximum
California’s East Bay has an exceptionally long seasonal lag in the summer—the warmest day of the year (September 21) arrives ninety days after the longest day of the year (June 21). The inaugural issue of Arkisnak considers this deviation between the seasons and phases of the sun known as “delay of the maximum'' in order to question how we organize ourselves in relation to time.
Within an architectural framework, we may start to question how we stretch certain states of heat, conditions of scarcity, or orders of expectation. What affordances come with lagging behind? When we push back on a forecast, where are its limits? What does it mean for an environment to fall behind or operate in perpetual progress? We seek contributions that think through any number of topics from duration and delay, to other temporal conditions falling anywhere in and out of step with the way things “ought to be.”
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Issue 2: Fog
* coming soon