The modern environment is akin to chaos. Cities are now nearly defined by the massive billboards and glaring lights that distort their buildings. According to architect Stan Allen’s essay “Field Conditions,” places that were once familiar, organized and definite no longer exist. Amid modernization and globalization, our established culture and neatly arranged attributions have “been eroded by the onrush of media, consumer culture, and telecommunications.”

Read more on our current exhibition Field Conditions on The Daily Californian.

Pictured: Lebbeus Woods, Conflict Space 3, 2006