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Winter 2021: Design + Justice

A publication of AIA New York, Volume 83, Issue 1. Cover: Installation view of Mark Loughney, Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study of Mass Incarceration (2014–present) in the exhibition “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Matthew Septimus.

Table of Contents
Articles & News
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Letter from the President
Reflection/Inflection
by Kim Yao, AIA, and Kenneth Lewis, AIA, RA, NCARB
Molly Heintz, Editor-in-Chief. Photo: Nir Arieli.
Letter from the Editor
Just Beginning
by Molly Heintz
Contributors to This Issue
Beyond the Center
"Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration"
by Casey Romaine
At the Center
AIANY 2021 Design Awards
Director Maria Almonte addresses the staff of Bronx Community Solutions at its offices in the Bronx Criminal Courthouse. Photo: Courtesy of Michael Falco/Center for Court Innovation.
Street Level
Reform from the Inside: Bronx Community Solutions
by Stephen Zacks
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Op-Ed
Towards an Infrastructure for Restorative Justice
by Darrick Borowski, AIA, and Rik Ekstrom, Assoc. AIA
In Print
Stanford White in Detail

Los Angeles Modernism Revisited: Houses by Neutra,
Schindler, Ain and Contemporaries
by Stanley Stark, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP
Photo: Sam Lahoz.
Letter from the Executive Director
Onwards
by Benjamin Prosky, Assoc. AIA
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Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, The visual op-ed by Garo Gumusyan in the Fall 2020...
by Ricardo Zurita, AIA, LEED AP
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Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read Ricardo Zurita’s response to my firm’s op-ed piece...
by Garo Gumusyan, AIA
Features
Introduction
Design + Justice
An image from an overview of Beyond Rikers: Master Plan for the Borough-Based Jails shows the transformation of New York's carceral system. Image credit: Courtesy of New York City Department of Design and Construction/Perkins Eastman.
Beyond a Broken System
The closure of Rikers Island created an opportunity to rethink New York City’s prisons. But critics of the U.S. carceral system discourage architects from participating in a justice system defined by disparity.
by Stephen Zacks
The team of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces. Photo: Oretola Thomas.
Reconceiving Justice
Two architects share their visions for restorative justice and a new infrastructure for their communities.
by Patrick Sisson and Emily R. Pellerin
An internal roadway between two buildings on the campus of the maximum-security Halden Prison in Norway, designed by ERIK Arkitekter. Photo: Courtesy of ERIK Arkitekter.
Roads, Not Walls
Through design, spaces of justice can support development rather than deprivation. New models from Norway, France, and Atlanta show how.
by Patrick Sisson
Anonymous, Ionia Maximum Correctional Facility, Ionia, MI. All images excerpted from Prison Landscapes © Alyse Emdur.
Self v. System
Incarcerated individuals are often denied modes of self expression and, as a result, a sense of identity.
by Emily R. Pellerin
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