About
SOILED is an architectural periodical. It investigates latent issues in the built environment and the politics of space.
SOILED operates at the interstices of architecture, urbanism, and the pedosphere, providing a venue for dialogue and exploration.
SOILED investigates collective issues, documenting hidden systems and in-between spaces.
SOILED curates ideas from the arable to the obscene, decentering the conventional categories used to define the built environment.
SOILED employs narratives, manifestoes, mappings, ephemera and live events, inviting the broader public to participate in architectural discourse.
SOILED is calibrated filth.
As an alternative to the proliferation of digital media, SOILED is an interactive artifact that is simultaneously disposable and precious. In symbiosis with its value as a bound book, certain pages of the publication are intended to be removed, manipulated, and used to explore and re-contextualize the reader’s environments. In this way, SOILED aims to push the potential of the printed page and reconnect with the materials and landscape from which its content originates. Rather than being subdivided with page numbers, SOILED is calibrated in inches and feet as a continuous 1:1 medium. Articles are curated along this continuum to tell a larger story through conscious positioning of content, visual matter, sediment, and ephemera.
With three issues to date, SOILED is available in both a print edition and a free downloadable PDF.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Publisher
CARTOGRAM architecture + urban design
www.cartogram.org
Editorial Team
Joseph Altshuler
Matthew Harlan
Hollen Reischer
Caroline Souza
Editor-in-Chief
Joseph Altshuler
Art Director
Matthew Harlan
Founding Editors
Joseph Altshuler
Isaac Bloom
Director of Development
Hollen Reischer
Web Developer
Matt Strick
