Rail Networks | James Corner. 

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James Corner & Alex S. Maclean | Taking Measures Across The American Landscape, 1996

‘The techniques of representation are never neutral and architecture’s abstract means of imagining and realizing form leave their traces on the work. To understand representation as technique (in Foucault’s broader sense of techne) is therefore to pay attention to the paradoxical character of a discipline that operates to organize and transform material reality, but must do so at a distance, and through highly abstract means.’ Stan Allen | Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation, 2000

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James Corner + Alex S. MacLean - Taking Measures Across The American Landscape (1996)

‘As a creative practice, mapping precipitates its most productive effects through a finding that is also a founding; its agency lies in neither reproduction nor imposition but rather in uncovering realities previously unseen or unimagined, even across seemingly exhausted grounds. Thus mapping unfolds potential, it re-makes territory over and over again, each time with new and diverse consequences.’

James Corner - The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention (1999)

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