The discovery of Alaskan oil in 1968 and the ensuing economic integration of the American Arctic renewed the importance of cultural and climatic studies of living in the North. With international oil companies prospecting in the North Slope region of Alaska, the land claims of the recently inaugurated state, its Native inhabitants, and private investors underscored the lack of a settlercolonial legal framework of land ownership and of architectural techniques for aiding settlement in vast swaths of the territory. Together with the looming oil crisis of the 1970s, these events launched a debate on the legal, cultural, and spatial effects of development throughout the American Arctic. Intending to protect Alaskan society from changes that could cause overcrowding, unvirtuous wealth, and potential criminality, pipeline planners reassured state and federal officials that the effects of the pipeline would be temporary. For their planners, worker camps acted as a control mechanism to conceal the pipeline’s cultural, economic, and societal impact by functioning as temporary structures that would climatically and culturally support workers throughout construction and operation.
{"title":"Sweating and Dousing: Designing Climate-humanist Architecture and the Arctic Worker","authors":"Lasse Rau","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00779","url":null,"abstract":"The discovery of Alaskan oil in 1968 and the ensuing economic integration of the American Arctic renewed the importance of cultural and climatic studies of living in the North. With international oil companies prospecting in the North Slope region of Alaska, the land claims of the recently inaugurated state, its Native inhabitants, and private investors underscored the lack of a settlercolonial legal framework of land ownership and of architectural techniques for aiding settlement in vast swaths of the territory. Together with the looming oil crisis of the 1970s, these events launched a debate on the legal, cultural, and spatial effects of development throughout the American Arctic. Intending to protect Alaskan society from changes that could cause overcrowding, unvirtuous wealth, and potential criminality, pipeline planners reassured state and federal officials that the effects of the pipeline would be temporary. For their planners, worker camps acted as a control mechanism to conceal the pipeline’s cultural, economic, and societal impact by functioning as temporary structures that would climatically and culturally support workers throughout construction and operation.","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"116-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41485610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Architectures of Acclimatization and/as Colonization: Response to “Sweating and Dousing”","authors":"Megan Eardley","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00796","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"132-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47774680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De-Coding the “Fire-Escape”: Safeguarding Health, Safety, and Welfare in Nineteenth-century America","authors":"Iman Ansari","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00784","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"230-245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49188075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feeling the Heat in Hollywood: Professionals, Surveillance, and the Landscape of Los Angeles","authors":"James Heard","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00777","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"64-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45037559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Color of Air","authors":"Nate Imai, Matt Convay, Rachel Lee","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00788","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"52-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44384482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Where I live, on the island that is now known as Montreal, which lies between colonially baptized rivers—the St. Lawrence and the Rivière des Prairies—winter can come quickly and early. Clear, luminous, cold air comes into contact with the surface of the waters that run under the Jacques Cartier, Champlain, and Mercier bridges—echoes of colonial connection. Vapor rises. Ice crystals form then dissolve through the rolling motion of the current. When the time between the sun and moon rising is shortest, sheets of ice may form near the island’s shorelines. Farther east on the St. Lawrence, shards of ice lock together and come apart. These are all reminders of a planetary cycle of temperature variation that inhabits and regulates our present. Water and ice make these cycles apparent.
{"title":"Temperate Infrastructures and Thermal Control","authors":"Rafico Ruiz","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00781","url":null,"abstract":"Where I live, on the island that is now known as Montreal, which lies between colonially baptized rivers—the St. Lawrence and the Rivière des Prairies—winter can come quickly and early. Clear, luminous, cold air comes into contact with the surface of the waters that run under the Jacques Cartier, Champlain, and Mercier bridges—echoes of colonial connection. Vapor rises. Ice crystals form then dissolve through the rolling motion of the current. When the time between the sun and moon rising is shortest, sheets of ice may form near the island’s shorelines. Farther east on the St. Lawrence, shards of ice lock together and come apart. These are all reminders of a planetary cycle of temperature variation that inhabits and regulates our present. Water and ice make these cycles apparent.","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"140-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42858071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heat is elusive: always on the move, always fugitive. As the transference of energy from one system to another, heat radiates and penetrates. Immanent and intense, heat binds and nourishes as much as it reshapes and destroys. Since heat helps us navigate the material world as tool, medium, and affect, a serious consideration of heat requires us to come to terms with the fragility of the systems in which we take part—both voluntarily and involuntarily. And though temperature is regularly mapped across graphs and thermometers, the feeling of heat is often so localized and so personal that it evades historic perception altogether. Heat's ubiquity and evasiveness force us to confront and map heat's location within art and architecture.
{"title":"Introduction: That's Hot!","authors":"Hamp Smith, Zachariah DeGiulio","doi":"10.1162/thld_e_00806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_e_00806","url":null,"abstract":"Heat is elusive: always on the move, always fugitive. As the transference of energy from one system to another, heat radiates and penetrates. Immanent and intense, heat binds and nourishes as much as it reshapes and destroys. Since heat helps us navigate the material world as tool, medium, and affect, a serious consideration of heat requires us to come to terms with the fragility of the systems in which we take part—both voluntarily and involuntarily. And though temperature is regularly mapped across graphs and thermometers, the feeling of heat is often so localized and so personal that it evades historic perception altogether. Heat's ubiquity and evasiveness force us to confront and map heat's location within art and architecture.","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47429235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The printing of images, like the rendering of images, emanates heat. The ink printed on this page is an image of an object. It is an image that has been produced by the translation of points on a 3-D model into raster data that appears to the eyes as pixels, converted from ones and zeros to the RGB color scale from one to 255. Corresponding inks are then mechanically mixed and applied to paper as an artifact that distills an idea and an operation.
{"title":"Distillation by Retort","authors":"Emily Wissemann","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00797","url":null,"abstract":"The printing of images, like the rendering of images, emanates heat. The ink printed on this page is an image of an object. It is an image that has been produced by the translation of points on a 3-D model into raster data that appears to the eyes as pixels, converted from ones and zeros to the RGB color scale from one to 255. Corresponding inks are then mechanically mixed and applied to paper as an artifact that distills an idea and an operation.","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"138-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41527124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urban Energy Acupuncture: Iteration No. 01: Times Square","authors":"Ian Callender, Benjamin Akhavan","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00804","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"246-247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42361415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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