I spoke with architect and teacher Chris Cornelius at length on his project of creating Indigenous architecture and artifacts for contemporary and future audiences. Cornelius’s work at studio:indigenous is slow, practiced, and secret. We spoke about maintaining a magic in architecture, finding a language to talk about objects, and developing ways to share that are stripped from a compulsion to fully know and exhaustively understand.

How can architecture be published? The first year of Architecture in the Brooklyn Rail has been an effort to draw out the transferences and vocabularies between blueprint and newsprint, which is already a natural drift.