uncube’s editors are Sophie Lovell (Art Director, Editor-in-Chief), Florian Heilmeyer, Rob Wilson and Elvia Wilk; editorial assistance: Susie S. Lee; graphic design: Lena Giovanazzi; graphics assistance: Madalena Guerra.
uncube is based in Berlin and is published by BauNetz, Germany’s most-read online magazine covering architecture in a thoughtful way since 1996.
When architects talk about “space” it’s usually in reference to floor plans and finite square metres of the Earth’s surface, to be shaped and sculpted, bought and sold. For this issue uncube is blasting off from our planet and out through the stratosphere, entering the infinitely expanding space of the universe, where the dimension of time becomes increasingly important as a parameter.
But with space travel comes baggage, both physical and in the form of humans’ earthly concerns: Who owns space? Who will mine resources and start colonies? On which planets? And what type of structures can be built? Indeed what could architecture be without gravity but just with infinite... space?
Join us as uncube goes galactic.
Cover image: “spaceport” from the series “outer space”, 132 x 202 cm. (Photo courtesy the artist, © Michael Najjar)
Spaceport America, New Mexico, is the “world's first commercial spaceport” although it has yet to come into active operation as such. Designed by Foster + Partners, 2006-14, the building’s tenants include Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, UP Aerospace and Armadillo Aerospace.
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