Join us to celebrate and discuss the launch of the Perspecta 50: Urban Divides. This volume of Perspecta — the 50th issue of the oldest student-edited architectural journal in the U.S. — investigates division as a mechanism of contemporary urbanism.  As urbanization and economic inequality reach record levels, our cities are seeing amplified gentrification, ghettoization, and unprecedented camp formations. Physical manifestations of inequality or difference, urban divides are becoming more pervasive, and are often much more complex than a single line. In texts, images, and studio projects, Perspecta 50 invites readers to question the inevitability and ubiquity of urban divides.

Contributors include: Marisa Angell Brown, Jon Calame, City Reparo, Andreea Cojocaru, Dana Cuff, Kian Goh, Jenny Holzer, Jyoti Hosagrahar, Jeffrey Hou, Andrés Jaque, Meghan McAllister, Gary McDonogh, Mitch McEwen, Alishine Osman, Todd Reisz, Mahdi Sabbagh, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Michael Sorkin with Terreform, Studio Gang, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, Guy Trangoš, Urban-Think Tank, Jesse Vogler, Annabel Jane Wharton, Theresa Williamson.

Guests welcome! Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Complimentary refreshments.

Generously supported by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.