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.
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Masha Hupalo
Masha Hupalo is an architect who writes and teaches in Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the way policy and high-frequency data inform planning and design, the legal construct of territory and borders, and new forms of governance and ownership. As an educator, Masha worked at SCI-Arc and Aarhus School of Architecture, where she received her doctoral degree. In her research project, she investigated the role of parking policies and requirements in urban design and the speculative nature of planning documentation. Masha worked at COOP HIMMELB(L)AU in Vienna and participated in group exhibitions at 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 the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
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