Systems logic, smart-city technology, informational infrastructure, architectural archives, and air that’s tainted by THC, opiates, and cocaine — these are some of the subjects that have caught the attention of architect, writer, and curator Mark Wasiuta, a senior lecturer at Columbia GSAPP. He also maintains a strong interest in underappreciated postwar architects and projects, among them the 1960s Venice Beach collective Environmental Communications — he curated the first show of their work with Marcos Sánchez at GSAPP in 2015 —, the “father of Iraqi architecture” Rifat Chadirji, and Buckminster Fuller’s educational simulation World Game (Wasiuta’s book on the subject, Information Fall-Out, is expected in 2025). With Control Syntax, his project with architect Farzin Lotfi-Jam, he’s mapped modern cities’ landscapes through the predictive logic of urban-informational technologies — traffic cameras, motion sensors — for Storefront for Architecture, Het Nieuwe Instituut, and more. Below, Wasiuta reflects on his Canadian roots, LSD architecture, and the time MoMA caught fire.