»Architectural interpretations accepted without reflection could obscure the search for signs of a true nature and a higher order.«

Louis Isadore Kahn

25 Apr 2016

Magazine No. 43
Athens

  • essay

    From the Bottom and the Top

    Powering Athens through collectivity and informal initiatives by Cristina Ampatzidou

  • photo essay

    Nowhere Now Here

    A photo essay by Yiorgis Yerolymbos

  • Essay

    Back to the Garden

    Athens and opportunities for new urban strategies by Aristide Antonas

  • Interview

    Point Supreme

    An interview by Ellie Stathaki

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03 Mar 2016

Magazine No. 42
Walk the Line

  • Essay

    The Line Connects

    An essay on drawing and architectural education by Wes Jones

  • Essay

    Drawing Attention

    Phineas Harper sketches out new narrative paths with pencil power

  • Essay

    Gotham

    Elvia Wilk on a city of shadows as architectural fiction

  • Interview

    The (Not So) Fine Line

    A conversation thread between Sophie Lovell and architecture cartoonist Klaus

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28 Jan 2016

Magazine No. 41
Zvi Hecker

  • essay

    Space Packers

    Zvi Hecker’s career-defining partnership with Eldar Sharon and Alfred Neumann by Rafi Segal

  • Interview

    Essentially I am a Medieval Architect

    An interview with Zvi Hecker by Vladimir Belogolovsky

  • viewpoint

    The Technion Affair

    Breaking and entering in the name of architectural integrity by Zvi Hecker

  • Photo Essay

    Revisiting Yesterday’s Future

    A photo essay by Gili Merin

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17 Dec 2015

Magazine No. 40
Iceland

  • Viewpoint

    Wish You Were Here

    Arna Mathiesen asks: Refinancing Iceland with tourism – but at what cost?

  • Photo Essay

    Spaces Create Bodies, Bodies Create Space

    An essay by Ólafur Elíasson

  • Focus

    Icelandic Domestic

    Focus on post-independence houses by George Kafka

  • Essay

    The Harp That Sang

    The saga of Reykjavík's Concert Hall by Sophie Lovell & Fiona Shipwright

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26 Nov 2015

Magazine No. 39
Storage

  • Interview

    A Little Bit of Order

    Sophie Lovell talks to Eero Koivisto of Claesson Koivisto Rune

  • Essay

    Memory Palaces

    Architecture for recollection in the age of forgetting by Fiona Shipwright

  • Interview

    The Invisible Museum

    Elvia Wilk talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist about outing the archive

  • Photo Booth

    In the Photo Booth with...

    Shumi Bose, Jack Self and Finn Williams

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02 Nov 2015

Magazine No. 38
Death

  • Interview

    The Orientation of Hope

    An interview with Charles Jencks, co-founder of the Maggie’s Centres by Rob Wilson

  • Essay

    The Great Beyond

    Herbert Wright on architectures of the afterlife

  • Essay

    Who Wants to Live Forever?

    Arakawa and Gins' Reversible Destiny Lofts by Léopold Lambert

  • Essay

    Protestant Death Ethic

    Leon Berger’s Southampton Crematorium by Owen Hatherley

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30 Sep 2015

Magazine No. 37
Zaha

  • Interview

    Hadid

    An interview with the architect Zaha Hadid by Sophie Lovell

  • Essay

    Fluid Freedom

    Zaha Hadid’s Four Decades of Breaking the Box by Aaron Betsky

  • Viewpoint

    A Planet in its Own Orbit

    On being Zaha by Bernard Tschumi

  • Viewpoint

    Calculated Constructs

    Greg Lynn on the formulas generating success at ZHA

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26 Aug 2015

Magazine No. 36
Uncanny Valley

  • Essay

    Machines of Loving Grace

    The city as a distributed robot & the omnipresent intelligence of data networks

  • Essay

    A Kind Of Magic

    A conversation about losing control over our own technology

  • Interview

    The Otherness of the Machine

    Jan Willmann from ETH Zurich on robotics in architecture

  • Focus

    Matter Design's

    Best of commercial robotic fabrication innovation

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02 Jul 2015

Magazine No. 35
Bricks

  • Essay

    A Brick in the Stomach

    Max Borka on the home-loving Belgians

  • Essay

    Catching the Curve

    Eladio Dieste and the brick by Florencia Rodríguez

  • Focus

    Trapped by History

    The new genre of stylish salvage

  • Photo Booth

    In the Photo Booth with...

    Wolf D. Prix

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28 May 2015

Magazine No. 34
Commune Revisited

  • Essay

    Communities of Consciousness

    From Drop City to the digital by Fred Turner

  • Interview

    On Cooperation

    An interview with Richard Sennett by Rob Wilson

  • Photo Essay

    A Natural Order

    Photographer Lucas Foglia portrays outsider life in rural America

  • Essay

    The Rule of Hours

    James Marriott on Hans van der Laan's Abdij Sint Benedictusberg

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30 Apr 2015

Magazine No. 33
Frei Otto

  • Essay

    Frei by Name, Frei by Nature

    A life extraordinary by Irene Meissner

  • Essay

    The Stuttgart Boys

    Frei association: bionics, parametrics, morphogenics and more… by Sophie Lovell

  • Interview

    Otto and the Open System

    Georg Vrachliotis in conversation with Jean-Philippe Vassal

  • Found

    When Frei met Bucky

    A meeting of like minds

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26 Mar 2015

Magazine No. 32
Expotecture

  • Essay

    Manufactured Consent

    Jonas Staal on propaganda and commerce at the 1937 and 1939 World’s Fairs

  • Essay

    The Future is Here

    Philosopher Mark Kingwell remembers the 1967 Montreal Expo

  • Essay

    Progress and Harmony for Mankind

    Crystal Bennes looks back at the optimism of Osaka Expo 70

  • Interview

    Putting an End to the Vanity Fair

    Exclusive interview with Jacques Herzog about the Expo 2015 masterplan

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26 Feb 2015

Magazine No. 31
Poland

  • Viewpoint

    Bread and Circuses

    Iconic architecture in post-communist Poland

  • Photo Essay

    Shipyard

    Michał Szlaga's loving, melancholic portrait of Gdańsk

  • Viewpoint

    We, the Citizens

    The rise of the Polish urban movements

  • Focus

    Studio Rygalik’s

    Focus on Polish design

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29 Jan 2015

Magazine No. 30
Animal House

  • Interview

    The Logical Path

    Interview with the extraordinary Temple Grandin by Sophie Lovell

  • Photo Essay

    Social Housing

    Bird communes in the Kalahari photographed by Dillon Marsh

  • Case Study

    Crabby Chic

    Artist Aki Inomata's real estate for hermit crabs

  • Essay

    Beastly Designs

    Ned Dodington's barrier-free survey of zoo architecture and design

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18 Dec 2014

Magazine No. 29
After Dark

  • Interview

    In the Twilight Hour

    An Interview with Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Snøhetta

  • Essay

    Night Walkers

    Place-hacking nocturnal London

  • Photo Essay

    The Night Watch

    Photographer Joël Tettamanti

  • Focus

    The Illuminati

    uncube’s pick of enlightened façades

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27 Nov 2014

Magazine No. 28
Thank You, I´ll Do It Myself

  • Essay

    DIY Cities

    Justin McGuirk on citizen agency and government accountability

  • Photo Essay

    Got Wood?

    Vintage DIY "cabin porn" from 1960

  • Focus

    Best of the Makers

    By Daniel Charny

  • Essay

    Same, Same but Different

    Self-help architecture in Sudan by Raul Pantaleo

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29 Oct 2014

Magazine No. 27
Australia

  • Interview

    The Lay of the Land

    Interview with landscape architect Kate Cullity

  • Essay

    Going Troppo

    Troppo architects: creative pragmatism with a social agenda

  • Photo Essay

    Never Never

    A photographer's view of the Australian landscape

  • Essay

    Terra Nullius

    New perspectives on Indigenous architecture

>

02 Oct 2014

Magazine No. 26
School´s Out

  • Interview

    No More Masters

    Interview with Odile Decq

  • Essay

    Buildings to Learn In, Buildings to Learn From

    Visiting two recently designed architecture schools in Nantes and Tirana

  • Interview

    License to Think

    Interview with Eugenie deLariviere

  • Essay

    Deschooling Society

    Learning in the networked era

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25 Aug 2014

Magazine No. 25
Soft Machines

  • Interview

    The Sincerest Form of Flattery

    Interview with biomimicry expert, Ilaria Mazzoleni

  • Focus

    Paola Antonelli

    Best of Bio-design

  • Essay

    The Bigger Picture

    Bio-cities of tomorrow

  • Photo Essay

    Bioplastic Fantastic

    Johanna Schmeer's interactive, edible products

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31 Jul 2014

Magazine No. 24
Hans Hollein

  • Manifesto

    Everything is Architecture

    Excerpts from Hans Hollein’s 1968 Manifesto

  • Essay

    Hollein

    Wilfried Kuehn and Marlies Wirth on Hollein's Legacy

  • Focus

    Shape Shifter

    Hollein’s Design Objects

  • Essay

    A Piece of Cake

    Hans Hollein’s Museum for Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main

>

07 Jul 2014

Magazine No. 23
Mexico City

  • Essay

    Mexico City Buzz Blues

    The best of cities, the worst of cities by Mario Ballesteros

  • Viewpoint

    This Neurotic Tradition

    The hardware and the software of the city by Michel Rojkind

  • Essay

    Refashioning the Narrative

    Emerging architecture and design practice by Mimi Zeiger

  • Photo Booth

    In the Photo Booth with...

    Luby Springall and Julio Gaeta

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28 May 2014

Magazine No. 22
Water

  • Essay

    Adriaport

    Czechoslovakia's 1970s plan to build a tunnel to the sea

  • Case Study

    Tropical Island

    A Big Brandenburg Oasis

  • Interview

    Holding Back the Waves

    Climate engineer Matthias Schuler achieves active solutions through passive measures

  • Case Study

    Stream Lines

    Repurposed Dutch water defenses

>

09 May 2014

Magazine No. 21
Acoustics

  • Essay

    The Hear and Now

    Jonathan Bell in conversation with Yasuhisa Toyota of Nagata Acoustics

  • Essay

    Aural Prosthesis

    Lev Bratishenko on Arup’s Soundlab and the rise of virtual acoustics

  • Found

    David Byrne

    "Playing the Building"

  • Interview

    His Master’s Voice

    Interview with Edgar Wisniewski, Hans Scharoun's "silent" partner

>

03 Apr 2014

Magazine No. 20
Urban Commons

  • ESSAY

    Renegotiating the Urban Commons

    We have to fight for the right to shared space

  • Interview

    From Austerity to Audacity

    Interview with Fran Tonkiss on the emerging urbanism of small acts

  • Interview

    Reclaim the City!

    Andrej Holm on social struggles in a neo-liberalising city

  • Essay

    Architecture of the Civic Economy

    Indy Johar's manifesto for soft power

>

06 Mar 2014

Magazine No. 19
Space

  • Interview

    New World, Old Metaphors

    Interview with Ricardo Scofidio

  • Found

    Galina Balashova

    Space architect extraordinaire

  • Interview

    Per Artem Ad Astra

    Interview with Michael Najjar

  • Essay

    Memories of the Moon Age

    A Lunar love affair

>

30 Jan 2014

Magazine No. 18
Slovenia!

  • Interview

    Design, Decline and Dogma

    Interview with museum director Matevž Čelik on the status quo of Slovenian design

  • Essay

    Revolution without Patricide

    Miha Dešman on what defines contemporary Slovenian architecture

  • Interview

    Nobody Loves the Hitler Beetle

    Interview with artist Jasmina Cibic on cultural identity and the politics of display

  • Found

    Repeat Offenders

    Vid Zabel and Katarina Čakš revisit Slovenia's homegrown Brutalism

>

19 Dec 2013

Magazine No. 17
Construct Africa

  • Interview

    What is "Afritecture"?

    Andres Lepik discusses the manifold issues raised by his exhibition in Munich

  • Case Study

    Red Location

    Cultural Centre and Museum in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

  • Interview

    Continental Shift

    A group discussion about how to reconnect architecture with Africa

  • Found

    East Coast Critique

    Dar es Salaam's ANZA Magazine

>

28 Nov 2013

Magazine No. 16
Carbon

  • Interview

    The Lightest Touch

    Architect Greg Lynn believes the good outweighs the bad when it comes to carbon composites

  • Essay

    Black to the Future

    The charred-wood architecture of Terunobu Fujimori

  • Essay

    Greased Lightning

    How carbon fibre and precision engineering have taken the drag out of yacht racing

  • Essay

    The Air that We Breathe

    Has architecture lost its way en route to a post-carbon future?

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31 Oct 2013

Magazine No. 15
Veins

  • Essay

    When Infrastructures Stop

    Essay by Stephen Graham

  • Interview

    Centimeters, Kilometers, Escalators

    Interview with Marcel Smets

  • Interview

    Protein Streams

    Interview with Carolyn Steel

  • Bookmarked

    Bookmarked

    Guest Reviewer: Charlotte Newman

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02 Oct 2013

Magazine No. 14
Small Towns, Big Architecture

  • Photo Essay

    Outsized I

    Curiosities, cash cows and carbuncles...

  • Essay

    Small Town, Big Modernists

    Trophy architecture in the Midwest

  • Photo Booth

    In the Photo Booth with...

    Tatiana Bilbao

  • Essay

    The Colossus of Rügen

    Prora, the gigantic Nazi-built resort on the Baltic Sea

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03 Sep 2013

Magazine No. 13
Berlin

  • Viewpoint

    In & Out Of Berlin 1

    Francesca Ferguson, Bostjan Vuga

  • Interview

    360° View

    In the Schinkel Pavilion with Nina Pohl

  • Viewpoint

    In & Out of Berlin 2

    Mark Lee, Konstantin Grcic

  • Essay

    This Could Have Been Berlin

    The visionary architecture of Engelbert Kremser

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25 Jul 2013

Magazine No. 12
Into the Desert

  • Interview

    Framed Views

    Denise Scott Brown on the desert, Ed Ruscha, and the Pritzker Prize she never received

  • Case Study

    Dubai Thriller

    The world's largest fountain dances to Michael Jackson

  • Photo Essay

    Pooling Around

    Swimming through the history of New York City

  • Photo Booth

    In the Photo Booth with...

    Beatrice Galillee

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20 Jun 2013

Magazine No. 11
Charles Correa

  • Case Study

    Kanchanjunga!

    Correa's innovative “vertical bungalow” living

  • Essay

    Hornby Trains, Chinese Gardens and Architecture

    Charles Correa reflects on his (locomotive) origins as an architect

  • Interview

    A Usable Art

    In conversation with Charles Correa

  • Essay

    Mainland Shift

    Charles Correa and the making of Navi Mumbai

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22 May 2013

Magazine No. 10
Wood, Paper, Pulp

  • Photo Essay

    Out Of The Woods

    The construction of timber tastes

  • Essay

    Revenge Appreciation in Suburbia

    The hidden presence of timber in the American home

  • Essay

    Wood, Paper, Vodka...And Ice

    Alexander Brodsky recasts traditional Russian materials

  • Photo Booth

    In the Photo Booth with...

    Charles Holland

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18 Apr 2013

Magazine No. 09
Constructing Images

  • Interview

    Every Image is a Construction

    Kersten Geers on ambiguity in images and architecture – and avoiding photorealism

  • Interview

    Behind the Façade

    Ingrid von Kruse captures the personalities of starchitects

  • Photo Essay

    Modern Ruins

    Julia Schulz-Dornburg photographs Spain‘s unfinished buildings

  • Essay

    The Full & The Empty

    Economic crisis and the abandoned developments in Spain

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21 Mar 2013

Magazine No. 08
Culture & the City

  • Essay

    Culture and the City

    On Content and Form

  • Essay

    Containers Without Content

    The disastrous roll-out of the Bilbao Effect across Spain

  • Case Study

    Beacon for Learning

    Parque Biblioteca España

  • Essay

    The Island of Happiness

    The shadowy story of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

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21 Feb 2013

Magazine No. 07
Off Places

  • Essay

    Furka Pass

    A closed hotel, nothing much to see – yet Jenny Holzer, Sean Connery, and Rem Koolhaas have all been here …

  • Interview

    Strangely Familiar

    Todd Saunders and the Architecture of Lonely Places

  • Essay

    Revelations of atelier le balto

    Cultivating beauty in the off-spaces of Berlin

  • Photo Booth

    In the Photo Booth with...

    Gottfried Böhm

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22 Jan 2013

Magazine No. 06
Perspectives on Design

  • Interview

    The Elastic City

    Michael Maltzan about California Modernism, homelessness, and L.A. as a democratic city

  • Photo Booth

    In the photo booth with...

    Pedro Gadanho

  • Interview

    An Ever-Moving Train

    Rolf Fehlbaum and Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec on their relationship.

  • Interview

    A Room for Tea

    Sevil Peach expounds upon human needs, good neighborhoods, and culturally-appropriate office design

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13 Dec 2012

Magazine No. 05
Apocalypse Soon!

  • Essay

    Fighting Nature With Nature

    Creating resilient urban environments against natural catastrophes

  • Found

    Zombie Proof

  • Essay

    Under Tomorrow's Sky

    The speculative futures of Liam Young

  • Case Study

    Escape to Space!

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15 Nov 2012

Magazine No. 04
Concrete

  • Essay

    Costa Concrete

    The high-rise vacation city of Benidorm

  • Photo Booth

    In the Photo Booth with...

    Heike Klussmann and Thorsten Klooster

  • Essay

    Beirut’s Saint Joseph University

    Youssef Tohme and 109 architects use concrete to raise questions

  • Revisited

    A Brutalist Love Story

    Boston City Hall

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11 Oct 2012

Magazine No. 03
Manuelle Gautrand

  • Essay

    Constructing Architecture as Narrative Sculpture

    A profile of Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

  • Interview

    Folding Emotion into Architecture

    Manuelle Gautrand on origami architecture and built emotions

  • Photo Booth

    In the Photo Booth with...

    Bostjan Vuga

  • Essay

    New Arcadians

    Economic gloom sees young UK architects get creative with their practices

>

18 Sep 2012

Magazine No. 02
Venice & the Common Ground

  • Photo Essay

    Excavating the Common Ground

    Our highlights from the two main exhibitions

  • Essay

    Architecture observes itself

    This biennale misses social and political topics – and voices from outside Europe

  • Interview

    Stimulators and Moderators

    Jury member Kristin Feireiss about the Golden Lion awards

  • Essay

    Dark Side Club 2012

    The dark side of debate

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23 Aug 2012

Magazine No. 01
Pilgrimage & the Architect

  • Interview

    When the Building Comes as a Surprise

    Barry Bergdoll speaks about travelling to Brno, Brasilia, and Bilbao

  • Photo Essay

    Ruta del Peregrino

    Iwan Baan's impressions of Mexico's most famous pilgrimage route

  • Essay

    Enlightenment at Burning Man

    A pilgrimage of participation

  • Viewpoint

    I Know Where You Live

    On stalking architecture – and architecture stalkers

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