Boundary Making
Essay
Boundary Making: Re-imagining the Architecture of Waste Management Published in: Circular Living: Reimagining waste as commons and future cultural assets, edited by…
Throwaway Houses
Chapter
Throwaway Houses: Garbage Housing and the politics of ownership Published in The Culture of Nature in the History of Design,…
Destruction With Care
Essay
Published in Kvadrat Interwoven, March 2019. The essay considers the story of Interior Removal Services (IRS), a demolition contractor for…
Inside Infrastructure
Essay
Published May 2, 2016 in ARPA by Curt Gambetta Architects are asked to engage with an increasingly vast inventory of…
Producing Waste/ Producing Space
Symposium
Saturday, March 7, 2016 – 9:30am-5:00pm School of Architecture, Betts Auditorium *Scroll down for video An interdisciplinary symposium on waste…
Tracing Waste
Exhibition
Princeton School of Architecture Digital Gallery February 23 – March 13, 2015 Curated by Curt Gambetta and Mariana Mogilevich Accompanying…
Don’t Waste LA
Celebration & Conversation
Celebrating the adoption of the Zero Waste LA system and the release of LAANE’s new report, From Waste to Resource:…
How To Make Waste Public
Symposium
Organized by Curt Gambetta, Woodbury University WUHO 6518 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028 http://architecture.woodbury.edu/wuho-how-to-make-waste-public/ April 19 1:30-6:00 PM Rear…
Networked Urban Composting
Assembly Manual
This intervention comprises a small device that measures the heat of compost, communicating its ripeness to an online network of…
Last Rites
Assembly Manual
Last Rites envisages the public trash can as an interface. It highlights the moment at which our individual ownership of…
Window Lung & Particle Screen
Assembly Manual
This ritual introduces the act of air quality monitoring to the space of the home. Typically undertaken by community and…
The Assembly of Trash
Exhibition
Rather than take for granted the public or private nature of garbage, the projects and research in this exhibition proposed a series of sustained actions that rethink the publicity of waste at its source of generation: everyday rituals.
Infrastructural Research
Manual
This manual distills a specific research seminar that was taught at the University at Buffalo into a generic structure of…
Objects: Experience and Engagement
Salon
Salon @ The Assembly of Trash CEPA Gallery Buffalo NY April 14, 2012 Typically confined to the background of daily…
Techniques: The Aesthetics of Communication
Salon
Salon @ The Assembly of Trash CEPA Gallery Buffalo NY April 14, 2012 Since in the 19th century, waste has…
Hiding Waste With Curt Gambetta
Interview
Lev Bratishenko interviews Curt Gambetta for the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s Abroad series. Bratishenko: While it is the “ruptures or…
For An Interface
Essay
Published in Plat .5, Rice School of Architecture, 2010. “For An Interface” was written for the first issue of the…
