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Issue 1.2

Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary

In their book Prototyping for Architects, authors Jane and Mark Burry provide insight into the wide-ranging means, methods, and motivations for prototyping in the discipline of architecture. As part of their research, they asked 50 design practices “What is a prototype?” Not surprisingly, they received nearly 50 different answers, and the texts provided by those practices illustrate the breadth and importance of the “prototype” in contemporary design and making…