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Manifest Destiny - A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban Housing

By Jason Griffiths       

On 18 October 2002 Jason Griffiths and Alex Gino set out to explore the American suburbs. Over 178 days they drove 22,383 miles, made 134 suburban house calls and took 2,593 photographs.

In Manifest Destiny, Griffiths reveals the results of this exploration. Structured through 58 short chapters, the anthology offers an architectural pattern book of suburban conditions all focused not on the unique or specific but the placeless. These chapters are complemented by an introduction by Griffiths and an afterword by Swiss architectural historian Martino Stierli.

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/PUBLIC/AAPUBLICATIONS/New.php?item=640

306090 #13 “Sustain and Develop” – Chapter "Arid"

Princeton Architectural Press.

http://www.306090.org/

306090 #14 Making a Case (Forthcoming) - Chapter "Loft Living"

AA Files 57 – “Manifest Destiny - A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban Housing”

– an account of American Suburban Housing published in AA Files #57 by Architectural Association Publications P.51-59. Circulation – International – Print run of 3700 copies.

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/PUBLIC/AAPUBLICATIONS/AAFilesBacklist.php?item=602

Architectural Fabrics – ASU Out Door Dining Pavilion. Article of digital fabrication process design of evaporative cooling fabrics.  P.48 Circulation – National

Iowa Architect – Des Moines Arts Pavilion. Issue No. 07:262.  P.2-3 Circulation – State

"Artificial Horizons"
Article in "il Progetto"

"Collection Point"
Timeout Arts reviews June 19-26 2002

"Dead use"
Article in "il Progetto" No.9. (gennaio 2001)

"Beauty -The House for Mona Lisa"
Loud Paper

"5 % Off City"
Metalocus 2/99
"Kyoto Vision-Proposals from the World" 4/99

"The Millennium Cafe"
Architecture Today 11/98

"Adam Caruso admired its economy of means while Terry Farrell too liked the way a cheap, universal material had been turned into a satisfyingly direct plan"
Judges comments from the Millennium Cafe in Architecture Today.

"The House For Mona Lisa"
Shinkenchiku 98 10/98

"Urban Paths"
Architectural Perception 09/98

"The Oklahoma Memorial"
Building Design 04/97

Possibility of Non Movement - "Turn-on-House"
Japan Architect 12/96

"Architecture and Water"
Architectural Design Issue 1994

"The Temple of Laughter"
World Architecture -Issue 40
Building Design 03/94 & 07/95
Sunday Times 8/95

"The only thing is the box, the box, the box. I like it very much!" Wolf Prix.
"It is very poetic. It is more literary than it is architectural" Eric Owen Moss.
Judges comments Temple of Laughter in "Competition"

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