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A house with a date palm will never starve

The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)

The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)

The invisible enemy should not exist

May the obdurate foe not be in good health

The Ballad of Special Ops Cody

I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze

For us, the living

The flesh is yours, the bones are ours

Imperfect Binding

Geniza for Ostia

What dust will rise?

May the arrogant not prevail

The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own

White man got no dreaming

The Visionaries

Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy

(p)LOT: Proposition I

Romanticized all out of proportion

Climate Control

MICHAEL RAKOWITZ

A house with a date palm will never starve

The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)

The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)

The invisible enemy should not exist

May the obdurate foe not be in good health

The Ballad of Special Ops Cody

I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze

For us, the living

The flesh is yours, the bones are ours

Imperfect Binding

Geniza for Ostia

What dust will rise?

May the arrogant not prevail

The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own

White man got no dreaming

The Visionaries

Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy

(p)LOT: Proposition I

Romanticized all out of proportion

Climate Control

MICHAEL RAKOWITZ

Folder: PROJECTS

A house with a date palm will never starve

The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)

The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)

The invisible enemy should not exist

May the obdurate foe not be in good health

The Ballad of Special Ops Cody

I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze

For us, the living

The flesh is yours, the bones are ours

Imperfect Binding

Geniza for Ostia

What dust will rise?

May the arrogant not prevail

The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own

White man got no dreaming

The Visionaries

Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy

(p)LOT: Proposition I

Romanticized all out of proportion

Climate Control

Bill S.’s para SITE shelter. He requested as many windows as possible, because “homeless people don’t have privacy issues, but they do have security issues. We want to see potential attackers, we want to be visible to the public.” Six windows are

George L.’s para SITE shelter. Made on a budget of $5.00 from trash bags, ZipLoc bags, and clear waterproof packing tape. George requested a system of “ribs” that would be made of semi-translucent trash bags. In between the ribs, he wanted windows

The windows are made of Ziploc sandwich bags and serve as pockets to display personal items and signage for the public. Privacy and publicity can be regulated by adding or removing objects.

Bill S., Freddie F., and George L. with Freddie’s para SITE shelter. An avid science fiction fan, Freddie requested a shelter in the shape of Jabba the Hutt.

Joe H. using his para SITE shelter in February 2000. Joe is a homeless man who lived on the streets near Battery Park City in Manhattan. In the 1970s, he became a contractor and was responsible for building over fifteen buildings in Brooklyn. He w

Michael M. using his para SITE shelter on 26th Street and 9th Avenue in New York. Michael was a homeless man who worked for the United Homeless Organization. He wanted to respond to an obscure anti-tent by-law being enforced by the Giuliani admini

We designed his shelter to be closer to the ground, more like a sleeping bag or some kind of body extension. Thus, if questioned by the police, he could argue that the law did not apply because the shelter was not, in fact, a tent. On more than one

The chosen title, para SITE, is layered in its meaning, its derivation, and its understanding. para SITE borrows its prefix from the French definition of para , which translates to English as "guard against". Para , when it joins its suffix

Step-by-step, DIY instructions on how to build a para SITE shelter, printed in L ’ Itineraire , a Montréal-based magazine that features some articles written by homeless people, who also sell the magazine to passersby on the street. Published i

Design process sketches for a shelter built for Artie, a 62-year-old homeless man living near Madison Square Garden. Artie often stands in line for concert tickets at the request of scalpers. For his para SITE, Artie requested a domed sitting spac

Halfway through construction, I received a call from Artie ordering me to stop building. “Myra talks way too much!” he explained, and asked that I make two domed sitting areas, separated by the lovin’ room. “It should look like a bra, or a dogbone.

Bill S.’s para SITE shelter. He requested as many windows as possible, because “homeless people don’t have privacy issues, but they do have security issues. We want to see potential attackers, we want to be visible to the public.” Six windows are

George L.’s para SITE shelter. Made on a budget of $5.00 from trash bags, ZipLoc bags, and clear waterproof packing tape. George requested a system of “ribs” that would be made of semi-translucent trash bags. In between the ribs, he wanted windows

The windows are made of Ziploc sandwich bags and serve as pockets to display personal items and signage for the public. Privacy and publicity can be regulated by adding or removing objects.

Bill S., Freddie F., and George L. with Freddie’s para SITE shelter. An avid science fiction fan, Freddie requested a shelter in the shape of Jabba the Hutt.

Joe H. using his para SITE shelter in February 2000. Joe is a homeless man who lived on the streets near Battery Park City in Manhattan. In the 1970s, he became a contractor and was responsible for building over fifteen buildings in Brooklyn. He w

Michael M. using his para SITE shelter on 26th Street and 9th Avenue in New York. Michael was a homeless man who worked for the United Homeless Organization. He wanted to respond to an obscure anti-tent by-law being enforced by the Giuliani admini

We designed his shelter to be closer to the ground, more like a sleeping bag or some kind of body extension. Thus, if questioned by the police, he could argue that the law did not apply because the shelter was not, in fact, a tent. On more than one

The chosen title, para SITE, is layered in its meaning, its derivation, and its understanding. para SITE borrows its prefix from the French definition of para , which translates to English as "guard against". Para , when it joins its suffix

Step-by-step, DIY instructions on how to build a para SITE shelter, printed in L ’ Itineraire , a Montréal-based magazine that features some articles written by homeless people, who also sell the magazine to passersby on the street. Published i

Design process sketches for a shelter built for Artie, a 62-year-old homeless man living near Madison Square Garden. Artie often stands in line for concert tickets at the request of scalpers. For his para SITE, Artie requested a domed sitting spac

Halfway through construction, I received a call from Artie ordering me to stop building. “Myra talks way too much!” he explained, and asked that I make two domed sitting areas, separated by the lovin’ room. “It should look like a bra, or a dogbone.