Pamphlet Architecture 24: Some Among Them Are Killers: Unmanaged Landscapes for Non-U.S. Military and Government Users [Paperback]

David Ross (Author), Lebbeus Woods (Afterword)

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Publication Date: October 1, 2003

PA 24: Some Among Them are Killers explores unmanaged landscapes, territories that the author calls "wildernesses." These emerge from the cracks of mapping the spaces, at a variety of scales, that literally reside in the margins of error of our abilities to measure and calibrate space. From Yosemite National Park to the ubiquitous one-gallon milk jug, architect David Ross depicts the relationships between architecture and miscalibration and explores the spatial, tactile, and political ramifications of our reliance on modern devices of precision and overdetermination.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (October 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568983891
• ISBN-13: 978-1568983899
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 7.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #722,212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars where does the wilderness stop?, June 3, 2009

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This review is from: Pamphlet Architecture 24: Some Among Them Are Killers: Unmanaged Landscapes for Non-U.S. Military and Government Users (Paperback)

'Some Among Them Are Killers: Unmanaged Landscapes for Non-U.S. Military and Government Users' documents a world obsessively measured and proscribed, but magnifies the potential for gaps of error or the implosion of logic within seemingly impeccable systems of control. These blind spots expand to fill the frame of Ross' investigations, which become a probe of what might provisionally be called 'approximate space'. This hazy realm of uncertainty achieves a paradoxical clarity, and ultimately hijacks and redeploys structuring ideologies and their associated representational strategies .

Addressing issues of strategic ambiguity, 'Some Among Them Are Killers' is both squarely situated within and self-consciously confronting the the contemporary zeitgeist. The various projects each employ architecture as a mode of cultural critique, reflecting and subverting current media fascinations, dispositions of power, and modes of spatial control. No remote observer of current technological paradigms and practices, David Ross operates as a critic and a designer operating fluidly within digital culture. The proposals are the beautiful and disturbing offspring of relentless logic driven down unanticipated trajectories. Pamphlet 24 is a guide to using architecture as a tool to attack the obvious and familiar.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Craig Bates created Yosemite definition "some of them are killers"., October 13, 2006

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Ghost of Tenaya (Yosemite, Ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pamphlet Architecture 24: Some Among Them Are Killers: Unmanaged Landscapes for Non-U.S. Military and Government Users (Paperback)

I am a Yosemite Indian and I read that you used the erroneous "Some of them are Killers" from the so-called 1978 made up definition by Craig Bates. That is not the true definition of Yosemite. We believe Craig Bates made up that definition to explain why his wife's tribe, the Miwoks, were afraid of the Yosemite Indians. NO WHERE BEFORE 1978 does that definition ever appear before he created that. Craig Bates somehow got a job at Yosemite National Park Service and we have asked what university degree Bates had to hold that position. They never responded to our inquires and than suddenly he "retired" from their service after 30 years of implying Paiutes and Yokuts as his wife's tribe, the Miwoks. SO THAT TITLE IS NOT THE CORRECT MEANING AND DEFINITION OF YOSEMITE. It was a falsely created definition in 1978 to help the Southern Sierra Miwuks explain why they feared the Yosemite Tribe of Ahwahnee. So, even if the title sounds very cool, it is made up. Yosemite meant "The Killers" because the Mewuk Chief Bautista and Russio called the Yosemite Indians that, who were mainly Mono Paiutes...their enemies at that time. They were not Miwoks. Mewuks helped James Savage and the Mariposa Battalion and that definition and meaning that Craig Bates created is not correct. Most of Craig Bates writings, in my opinion, are not credible.