{"id":7053,"date":"2010-03-05T11:42:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=7053"},"modified":"2010-03-05T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:42:13","slug":"dont-stand-so-close-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=7053","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Stand So Close To Me."},"content":{"rendered":"

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A site about “Architectural Conjecture, Urban Speculation, [and] Landscape Futures” certainly seems to promise heady distraction, and Geoff Manaugh’s BLDGBLOG<\/a> delivers by the Liebherr T 282B<\/a>-full.<\/p>\n

Up since July 2004, BLDGBLOG totes a range of diversions almost as wide as Manaugh’s obviously fertile mind: Ice floes (and interplanetary atmospherics)<\/a>; automobile test tracks<\/a>; odd, old synthesizers<\/a>; hell<\/a>; and designing the long-term storage of nuclear waste<\/a>. Every post delights with inquisitive, nimble writing and typically dreamy images, and his The BLDGBLOG Book<\/em><\/a>\u2014which compiles dozens of his best pieces\u2014makes the whole enterprise fit on your shelf.<\/p>\n

Now, in a new exhibit<\/a> at the Storefront for Art and Architecture<\/a> in New York City, Manaugh and co-curator Nicola Twilley (Edible Geography<\/span><\/a>) turn their focus on another underaddressed, little-grapsed element of the human landscape. As states the page for Landscapes of Quarantine<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, which opens March 10th,<\/em><\/p>\n

At its most basic, quarantine is a strategy of separation and containment\u2014the creation of a hygienic boundary between two or more things, for the purpose of protecting one from exposure to the other. It is a spatial response to suspicion, threat, and uncertainty. From Chernobyl\u2019s Zone of Exclusion and the artificial quarantine islands of the New York archipelago to camp beds set up to house HIV-positive Haitian refugees detained at Guant\u00e1namo and the modified Airstream trailer from within which Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins once waved at President Nixon [above], the landscapes of quarantine are various, mutable, and often unexpected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Geoff Manaugh is a contributing editor at Wired UK<\/em> and former senior editor of Dwell<\/em> magazine. He’s also the guest today on my WBAI-NY \/ 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION, this afternoon, Friday, March 5, at 2 pm ET.<\/p>\n

You can hear this provocative ideas by tuning in at 2 pm. If you’re outside of the New York tri-state, check out our live stream<\/a> on the web. If you miss the live show, dig into our archives<\/a> for up to 90 days after broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A site about “Architectural Conjecture, Urban Speculation, [and] Landscape Futures” certainly seems to promise heady distraction, and Geoff Manaugh’s BLDGBLOG delivers by the Liebherr T 282B-full. Up since July 2004, BLDGBLOG totes a range of diversions almost as wide as Manaugh’s obviously fertile mind: Ice floes (and interplanetary atmospherics); automobile test tracks; odd, old synthesizers; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12,52,13,33,21,36,71,72,55,47,64,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7061,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions\/7061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}