Masha Hupalo

is a researcher and architect who writes and teaches in Los Angeles. Her current work focuses on the way policy and high-frequency data inform planning and design, the legal construct of territory and borders, and new forms of governance and ownership. 

Proto thinking on are.na
What is Cityness?
    The seminar explored a planetary-built environment and frameworks of understanding shaped by numerous factors including the formation of new border territories, extraction economies, digital platforms, and building standards.Globalization and increased mobility stand behind both – an uneven spatial development of hinterlands and a simultaneous homogenization of densely built environments. 
  • Type:  Graduate Seminar
  • Location: Design of Cities Postgraduate Program at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles
  • Year: 2018


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