Please join us February 12th at 5:30pm at CCA for a conversation connected to the launch of JAE 79:1, Architecture Beyond Extraction, which examines how architecture has long been entangled with extractive logics that draw out land, labor, and value, and asks what it might mean to design otherwise. Taking extraction not only as a material process but as a cultural and political condition shaped by colonialism and global capitalism, the issue reframes architecture’s role across scales—from the brick to the mine, from construction to institutions and pedagogy. It probes how extractive regimes permeate space, form, and inhabitation, while foregrounding alternative models rooted in care, reciprocity, mutualism, and solidarity. This launch brings together Melanie Louterbach
@mel_louterbach Danielle Zoe Rivera
@danielle.z.rivera and Tonia Sing Chi
@peripheraloffice introduced and moderated by Zannah Matson
@zannah.mae and Neeraj Bhatia
@theopenworkshop for a discussion on how architectural practices, economies, and imaginaries might move beyond extraction toward more equitable and regenerative systems
@cca_arch_div @urbanworksagency
Architecture Beyond Extraction was produced by
Theme Editors: Neeraj Bhatia, Jane Mah Hutton, Brittany Utting and Zannah Matson
Executive Editor: McLain Clutter
@mclainclutter
Design Editor: Ozayr Saloojee
@o.saloojee
and the (now resigned) JAE Editorial Board.
Cover Graphic by Andrea Vela Alarcón
@its.allegra 
