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APPENDX: Culture\/Theory\/Praxis<\/strong><\/em> was founded by Darell W. Fields (then a doctoral student at Harvard), Kevin L. Fuller (designer), and Milton S. F. Curry (assistant professor at Arizona State University), with institutional sponsorship from both Arizona State University and the Harvard GSD. The journal positioned itself explicitly at the intersection of race, culture, and design discourse. It\u2019s inaugural issue opened with a provocation: \u201c<\/em>When three black men congregate, it is usually assumed that they are about to sing, dance, shoot hoops, or start trouble.\u201d <\/em>This opening framed the journal\u2019s critical orientation, foregrounding questions of race, cultural perception, and intellectual practice. They embrace the idea of being here to start trouble, albeit they claim that <\/em>\u201cThe trouble is not defined by overt maliciousness, but merely by the thoughtful presentation of our ways of seeing.\u201d <\/em>Recognizing that the diversity of positions and lived experiences at the intersections of race, class, ethnicity, and gender remained absent from the discipline \u2014and were rarely considered for a rigorous critique of architecture, the editors asserted:\u201cWe, the editors, are not shouting to be included in the academy \u2013indeed, we are already here. We are more interested in conveying, from our various positions, our insights and experiences from within the discipline in order that these essential positions not continue to be overlooked [\u2026] We began looking for a space of resistance and rigorous critique of accepted canons from which new possibilities for the discipline could emerge. We found no such place and began to make one from scratch. These circumstances make APPENDX not only possible, but necessary. [\u2026] Needed is a journal that will provide a place to redefine scholarship as an inclusive, rather than exclusive, endeavor.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journal was organized into categories that framed distinct modes of knowledge, with their sequence varying across issues. Syntax<\/em> engaged practice; Verbatim<\/em> addressed theory; and both Precinct<\/em> and Adjacency<\/em> are explored culture \u2014Precinct<\/em> as a familiar, situated context for the editors, and Adjacency<\/em> as a newly articulated or previously unexplored one. Darell Field\u2019s opening \u201cBlack Manifesto\u201d (Precinct<\/em>, issue 1) was seminal in defining the voice of APPENDX, offering a cultural construction through which to interpret both the inaugural issue and those that followed. Equally significant was Cornell West\u2019s \u201cOn Architecture\u201d <\/em>(Verbatim<\/em>, issue 2), which established a framework for interrogating the politics of difference and its implications in cultural practices. Under Syntax, more closely aligned with disciplinary constructs, essays by Mark Donohue, Prescott-Scott Cohen, and George Legendre (all affiliated then with the GSD) extended architectural inquiry from within the institution. By contrast, Adjacency <\/em>ventured further afield, presenting speculative writings on architecture and gender, as well as architecture and sexuality. Despite the editors\u2019 commitment to inclusivity and their intention to add new voices to architectural discourse, the final piece of the last issue was a letter from Lucia Allais expressing alienation from the very language of the journal\u2019s editorials \u2014particularly that of issue 3\u2014 whose rhetoric was explicitly embedded in identity politics. The implications of this critique remain open to interpretation, but they raise questions of enduring relevance: how might discourse ultimately pursue a model that strives toward equity and belonging?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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An Opinion on Architecture <\/em>| Task: A Magazine for the Younger Generation in Architecture <\/em>| Synthesis<\/em> | Connection: Visual Arts at Harvard <\/em>| for’m <\/em>| The Harvard Architecture Review <\/em>| re\/alignment <\/em>| APPENDX: Culture\/Theory\/Praxis <\/em>| isthmus <\/em>| Gamut<\/em> | Trays: A Student Journal of the GSD<\/em> | New Geographies <\/em>| Platform <\/em>| Harvard Real Estate Review <\/em>| Open Letters <\/em>| Very Vary Veri <\/em>| MASKS, the Journal: Journal of the Dissimulation in Art <\/em>| Process: Journal of the GSD Design Research Forum<\/em> | OBL\/QUE<\/em> <\/em>| WID Bibliography<\/em> | Pairs <\/em>| Translations<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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