Hardcore Architecture: Justin Blinder

Hardcore Architecture explores the relationship between the architecture of living spaces and the history of underground American hardcore bands in the 1980s. This interview booklet is intended as a supplement to the website: hardcorearchitecture.tumblr.com. It is one of a series of printed publications addressing the themes of the project through writings, interviews, photos, and printed ephemera. Hardcore Architecture is a project of Marc Fischer and Public Collectors. This booklet, the fourth in this series of Hardcore Architecture interview publications, features a lengthy conversation with artist, designer and programmer Justin Blinder conducted by Michelle Millar Fisher. The focus of the conversation is Blinder's project "Vacated" which interrogates the hyper gentrification of New York City. In her introduction, Michelle Millar Fisher writes: "Both Vacated and Hardcore Architecture use maps to probe the places from whence data came, to trace it back to its sources in order to com