Image: Courtesy of Masha Hupalo
The current entanglement between real estate and techno-capitalism is often referred to as “prop-tech” and “real estate platforms.” Their services range from maintenance of rental properties to short-term vacation rentals, from fractional investment portfolio management to expedited real estate purchasing. Enriched with proprietary algorithms, data dashboards, and blockchain-powered transactions, these platforms determine geographies of urban investment. Within these geographies, a house becomes a logistics unit that gets subdivided, grouped, and traded. Simultaneously, a tenant becomes a data point in the predictive modeling of investment returns.
This lecture is free and open to the public—no rsvp required.
Masha Hupalo
Masha Hupalo is an architect, educator and writer based in Los Angeles. Currently, she is a Senior Research Associate at SCI-Arc. She is interested in the ways policy and big data inform planning and design, the legal construct of territory and borders, and new forms of urbanization. She received her doctoral degree at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. In her research project, she investigated the potential of parking policies and requirements to influence urban configurations and speculative nature of planning documentation. She worked at COOP HIMMELB(L)AU in Vienna, took part in group exhibitions in Kunsthalle Wien and Design Shanghai Biennale among others. Her work has been published in ARCH+, MONU and Radical Housing Journal. She received her M.S in Architecture from Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture, Russia and her M.A. in Social Design from University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
This program is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. (DCA)
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