• • uncube's editors are Sophie Lovell (Art Director, Editor-in-Chief), Florian Heilmeyer, Rob Wilson and Elvia Wilk. Graphic design: Lena Giavanazzi.

    uncube is based in Berlin and is published by BauNetz, Germany's most-read online magazine covering architecture in a thoughtful way since 1996.

  Sparkly ‘best friend’, polluting power source, invisible planetary threat, basis of all life. Ever-present in all its forms – diamond, coal, CO₂, protein – in this issue of uncube we’re getting molecular with the sixth element: carbon.

   

  From the ever-changing design paradigms afforded by material advances, such as flying carbon fibre super yachts and macramé rope chairs, to our current tautological obsession with ‘carbon-zero’ buildings, now is definitely the time to zoom in on carbon.

   

  But it’s not all about ultra-new superpowered carbon nano-materials – there are still those elementary acts of burning a wooden plank or drawing with charcoal. We’ll always find a way to use carbon.

   

  Go on, get your fingers dirty.

   
  

  The editors

  Detail from cover image: David Nash, “Pyramids Rise, Spheres Turn and Cubes Stay Still”, 2005, charcoal on paper. (Image courtesy the artist)

• COVER

  COVER

  Carbon
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Carbon
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  The Lightest Touch

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

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• FOUND

  FOUND

  David Nash

  Black Sphere
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Molecular Architecture

  Nanocarbons: the superheroes of materials science

  Text: Susie S. Lee
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Black to the Future

  The charred-wood architecture of Terunobu Fujimori

  Text: Luise Rellensmann
• PHOTO ESSAY

  PHOTO ESSAY

  Spiros Hadjidjanos

  Text: Elvia Wilk
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Greased Lightning

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

  Text: Jonathan Bell
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Structural Changes
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  The Air that We Breathe

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

  Text: Brian Cody
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Polluting beautifully

  A Danish recreational waste-plant designed to blow CO2 smoke rings into the sky

  Text: Rob Wilson
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Transparency International?

  Atelier Bow-Wow's BMW Guggenheim Lab

  Text: Elvia Wilk
• PHOTO BOOTH

  PHOTO BOOTH

  In the Photo Booth with...

  Philippe Rahm

  Text: Rob Wilson
• FREEHAND

  FREEHAND

  Inside/Outside/Between/Beyond

  Text: Bureau Spectacular
• NEXT

  NEXT

  Next

  CONSTRUCT AFRICA

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