what we're doing here

This blog is an attempt to publish a year-long correspondence on architecture, the city, and 'infrastructurism' -- a word i made up on a hazy New York morning after reading too much Rem Koolhaas. the basic proposition is that there is a tendency (not quite a movement, but more than an isolated set of incidents) in contemporary architecture to create innovative forms and structures by blurring or re-drawing the line between architecture and infrastructure. as the months have gone on, the appearances and manifestations of this tendency have become more and more frequent. until we get around to sorting through the early correspondence and posting its more significant moments, this blog may turn out to be mostly a disorganized list of 'infrastructurist' occurrences as we come across them. and, because discipline is alien to blogging, it will be about other topics as they come up as well. like Saint Louis. i'm sure there's a lot that's infrastructurist about Saint Louis, but i really haven't spent enough time there to tell you what. i've just driven through twice, really. but for some reason my head keeps coming back to it ...