Based on the eponymous symposium and exhibition, Fulfilled:
Architecture, Excess, and Desire considers the role of architecture
in a culture shaped by the excessive manufacturing and assuagement
of desire. Until the term became synonymous with Amazon warehouses,
the concept of fulfilment described the achievement of a desire -
sometimes tangible, often psychological or spiritual. With the
rapid growth of e-commerce, our understanding of fulfilment has
evolved to reflect a seemingly endless cycle of desire and
gratification - one whose continuity hinges on our willingness to
overlook the cultural, economic, and environmental impacts of our
ever-increasing expectation of quick and efficient fulfilment. A
closer look at fulfilment reveals a social, typological, formal,
aesthetic, and economic practice constructed collectively through
both digital and physical interactions. It is a cultural practice
which evolves like a language, both universally transferable and
contextually specific. As a symposium, exhibition, and now
publication, this project aims to draw out these new arrangements,
sticky relationships, and material by-products of cultural
production and to ask again the age-old question, "What does it
mean to be fulfilled?" This book examines the architecture of
fulfilment through three lenses: logistical, material, and cultural
fulfilment. Each reveals the new forms of architectural practice
and research that are possible, typical, and even surreptitiously
encouraged in the age of Amazon. Fulfilment networks are not
invisible systems; they are tangible objects - warehouses, suburban
houses, parking lots, cardboard boxes, shopping malls, mechanical
systems, shipping containers - with which architects necessarily
interact. From political mapping and questions of labour to digital
and physical storage typologies, contemporary architects learn from
and work critically within the architecture of fulfilment. Their
interests and approaches include the material and environmental
shortcomings of global logistics and the formal, representational,
and cultural potentials of a culture of excess. This book
highlights architecture's unique capacity to offer methodologies
for confronting an increasingly ambiguous, alienating world and
produce new knowledge and unexpected solutions that go beyond the
dichotomies of rural and urban territories. Featuring new texts and
visual work by more than a dozen contemporary architects: Ana
Miljacki - Boston, MA; Ang Li - Boston, MA; Ashley Bigham -
Columbus, OH; Cristina Goberna Pesudo - Madrid, Spain; Curtis Roth
- Columbus, OH; Jesse LeCavalier - Toronto, Canada; John McMorrough
- Ann Arbor, MI; Keith Krumwiede - San Francisco, CA; Laida Aguirre
- Ann Arbor, MI; Leigha Dennis - New York, NY; Lluis Alexandre
Casanovas Blanco - Barcelona, Spain; Michelle Chang - Boston, MA;
Miles Gertler - Toronto, Canada; Mira Henry & Matthew Au
(Current Interests) - Los Angeles, CA
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