T3XTURE 4: The Edge of Edge

In 1985 Baltimore Sun Magazine invited architects to imagine Baltimore in 2010 or 25 years into their future. In Laura Fry’s article, After the Millennium: Baltimore in 25 Years, four proposals addressed the Inner Harbor, which in the early 1980s had become an international model for revitalizing cities. Issue No.4 of T3xture is a collaboration with the Baltimore AIA and the Baltimore Architectural Foundation to organize a competition and a series of papers to promote fresh thinking about edge specifically addressing the Baltimore Waterfront. In 2015, Baltimore’s Waterfront Partnership’s Healthy Harbor Initiative set a goal of a swimmable and fishable Inner Harbor by the year 2020. We asked, How might the edge of the harbor change?We invited a diverse group of thinkers: philosopher, environmentalist, ornamentalist, an ecological engineer, architect, landscape architects, educators, authors, and geographer, to address our questions about the future of Baltimore’s edge. In the spirit of the Sun Magazine article, we also invited Maryland architects to present visions of a swimmable, fishable Inner Harbor.T3XTURE is an annual, international publication for architects, artists, writers, and designers interested in the haptic in architecture and art. Texture in architecture is the layering of geography, structure, space, constructions, materiality, digital fabrications, passages, ideas, and the movements of human activity in a composition, thus determining the overall qualities of a form or place. T3xture seeks to elevate the discourse on texture to the level currently paid to space and tectonics. Each issue collects architectural projects, drawings, poems, and photographs from contributors from all over the world.