Athens
25 Apr 2016
Magazine No. 43
Athens
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essay
From the Bottom and the Top
Powering Athens through collectivity and informal initiatives by Cristina Ampatzidou
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photo essay
Nowhere Now Here
A photo essay by Yiorgis Yerolymbos
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Essay
Back to the Garden
Athens and opportunities for new urban strategies by Aristide Antonas
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Interview
Point Supreme
An interview by Ellie Stathaki

Walk the Line
03 Mar 2016
Magazine No. 42
Walk the Line
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Essay
The Line Connects
An essay on drawing and architectural education by Wes Jones
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Essay
Drawing Attention
Phineas Harper sketches out new narrative paths with pencil power
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Essay
Gotham
Elvia Wilk on a city of shadows as architectural fiction
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Interview
The (Not So) Fine Line
A conversation thread between Sophie Lovell and architecture cartoonist Klaus

Zvi Hecker
28 Jan 2016
Magazine No. 41
Zvi Hecker
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essay
Space Packers
Zvi Hecker’s career-defining partnership with Eldar Sharon and Alfred Neumann by Rafi Segal
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Interview
Essentially I am a Medieval Architect
An interview with Zvi Hecker by Vladimir Belogolovsky
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viewpoint
The Technion Affair
Breaking and entering in the name of architectural integrity by Zvi Hecker
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Photo Essay
Revisiting Yesterday’s Future
A photo essay by Gili Merin

Iceland
17 Dec 2015
Magazine No. 40
Iceland
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Viewpoint
Wish You Were Here
Arna Mathiesen asks: Refinancing Iceland with tourism – but at what cost?
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Photo Essay
Spaces Create Bodies, Bodies Create Space
An essay by Ólafur Elíasson
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Focus
Icelandic Domestic
Focus on post-independence houses by George Kafka
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Essay
The Harp That Sang
The saga of Reykjavík's Concert Hall by Sophie Lovell & Fiona Shipwright

Storage
26 Nov 2015
Magazine No. 39
Storage
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Interview
A Little Bit of Order
Sophie Lovell talks to Eero Koivisto of Claesson Koivisto Rune
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Essay
Memory Palaces
Architecture for recollection in the age of forgetting by Fiona Shipwright
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Interview
The Invisible Museum
Elvia Wilk talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist about outing the archive
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Photo Booth
In the Photo Booth with...
Shumi Bose, Jack Self and Finn Williams

Death
02 Nov 2015
Magazine No. 38
Death
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Interview
The Orientation of Hope
An interview with Charles Jencks, co-founder of the Maggie’s Centres by Rob Wilson
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Essay
The Great Beyond
Herbert Wright on architectures of the afterlife
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Essay
Who Wants to Live Forever?
Arakawa and Gins' Reversible Destiny Lofts by Léopold Lambert
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Essay
Protestant Death Ethic
Leon Berger’s Southampton Crematorium by Owen Hatherley

Zaha
30 Sep 2015
Magazine No. 37
Zaha
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Interview
Hadid
An interview with the architect Zaha Hadid by Sophie Lovell
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Essay
Fluid Freedom
Zaha Hadid’s Four Decades of Breaking the Box by Aaron Betsky
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Viewpoint
A Planet in its Own Orbit
On being Zaha by Bernard Tschumi
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Viewpoint
Calculated Constructs
Greg Lynn on the formulas generating success at ZHA

Uncanny Valley
26 Aug 2015
Magazine No. 36
Uncanny Valley
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Essay
Machines of Loving Grace
The city as a distributed robot & the omnipresent intelligence of data networks
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Essay
A Kind Of Magic
A conversation about losing control over our own technology
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Interview
The Otherness of the Machine
Jan Willmann from ETH Zurich on robotics in architecture
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Focus
Matter Design's
Best of commercial robotic fabrication innovation

Bricks
02 Jul 2015
Magazine No. 35
Bricks
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Essay
A Brick in the Stomach
Max Borka on the home-loving Belgians
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Essay
Catching the Curve
Eladio Dieste and the brick by Florencia Rodríguez
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Focus
Trapped by History
The new genre of stylish salvage
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Photo Booth
In the Photo Booth with...
Wolf D. Prix

Commune Revisited
28 May 2015
Magazine No. 34
Commune Revisited
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Essay
Communities of Consciousness
From Drop City to the digital by Fred Turner
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Interview
On Cooperation
An interview with Richard Sennett by Rob Wilson
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Photo Essay
A Natural Order
Photographer Lucas Foglia portrays outsider life in rural America
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Essay
The Rule of Hours
James Marriott on Hans van der Laan's Abdij Sint Benedictusberg

Frei Otto
30 Apr 2015
Magazine No. 33
Frei Otto
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Essay
Frei by Name, Frei by Nature
A life extraordinary by Irene Meissner
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Essay
The Stuttgart Boys
Frei association: bionics, parametrics, morphogenics and more… by Sophie Lovell
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Interview
Otto and the Open System
Georg Vrachliotis in conversation with Jean-Philippe Vassal
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Found
When Frei met Bucky
A meeting of like minds

Expotecture
26 Mar 2015
Magazine No. 32
Expotecture
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Essay
Manufactured Consent
Jonas Staal on propaganda and commerce at the 1937 and 1939 World’s Fairs
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Essay
The Future is Here
Philosopher Mark Kingwell remembers the 1967 Montreal Expo
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Essay
Progress and Harmony for Mankind
Crystal Bennes looks back at the optimism of Osaka Expo 70
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Interview
Putting an End to the Vanity Fair
Exclusive interview with Jacques Herzog about the Expo 2015 masterplan

Poland
26 Feb 2015
Magazine No. 31
Poland
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Viewpoint
Bread and Circuses
Iconic architecture in post-communist Poland
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Photo Essay
Shipyard
Michał Szlaga's loving, melancholic portrait of Gdańsk
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Viewpoint
We, the Citizens
The rise of the Polish urban movements
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Focus
Studio Rygalik’s
Focus on Polish design

Animal House
29 Jan 2015
Magazine No. 30
Animal House
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Interview
The Logical Path
Interview with the extraordinary Temple Grandin by Sophie Lovell
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Photo Essay
Social Housing
Bird communes in the Kalahari photographed by Dillon Marsh
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Case Study
Crabby Chic
Artist Aki Inomata's real estate for hermit crabs
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Essay
Beastly Designs
Ned Dodington's barrier-free survey of zoo architecture and design

After Dark
18 Dec 2014
Magazine No. 29
After Dark
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Interview
In the Twilight Hour
An Interview with Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Snøhetta
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Essay
Night Walkers
Place-hacking nocturnal London
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Photo Essay
The Night Watch
Photographer Joël Tettamanti
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Focus
The Illuminati
uncube’s pick of enlightened façades

Thank You, I´ll Do It Myself
27 Nov 2014
Magazine No. 28
Thank You, I´ll Do It Myself
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Essay
DIY Cities
Justin McGuirk on citizen agency and government accountability
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Photo Essay
Got Wood?
Vintage DIY "cabin porn" from 1960
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Focus
Best of the Makers
By Daniel Charny
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Essay
Same, Same but Different
Self-help architecture in Sudan by Raul Pantaleo

Australia
29 Oct 2014
Magazine No. 27
Australia
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Interview
The Lay of the Land
Interview with landscape architect Kate Cullity
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Essay
Going Troppo
Troppo architects: creative pragmatism with a social agenda
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Photo Essay
Never Never
A photographer's view of the Australian landscape
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Essay
Terra Nullius
New perspectives on Indigenous architecture

School´s Out
02 Oct 2014
Magazine No. 26
School´s Out
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Interview
No More Masters
Interview with Odile Decq
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Essay
Buildings to Learn In, Buildings to Learn From
Visiting two recently designed architecture schools in Nantes and Tirana
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Interview
License to Think
Interview with Eugenie deLariviere
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Essay
Deschooling Society
Learning in the networked era

Soft Machines
25 Aug 2014
Magazine No. 25
Soft Machines
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Interview
The Sincerest Form of Flattery
Interview with biomimicry expert, Ilaria Mazzoleni
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Focus
Paola Antonelli
Best of Bio-design
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Essay
The Bigger Picture
Bio-cities of tomorrow
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Photo Essay
Bioplastic Fantastic
Johanna Schmeer's interactive, edible products

Hans Hollein
31 Jul 2014
Magazine No. 24
Hans Hollein
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Manifesto
Everything is Architecture
Excerpts from Hans Hollein’s 1968 Manifesto
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Essay
Hollein
Wilfried Kuehn and Marlies Wirth on Hollein's Legacy
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Focus
Shape Shifter
Hollein’s Design Objects
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Essay
A Piece of Cake
Hans Hollein’s Museum for Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main

Mexico City
07 Jul 2014
Magazine No. 23
Mexico City
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Essay
Mexico City Buzz Blues
The best of cities, the worst of cities by Mario Ballesteros
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Viewpoint
This Neurotic Tradition
The hardware and the software of the city by Michel Rojkind
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Essay
Refashioning the Narrative
Emerging architecture and design practice by Mimi Zeiger
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Photo Booth
In the Photo Booth with...
Luby Springall and Julio Gaeta

Water
28 May 2014
Magazine No. 22
Water
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Essay
Adriaport
Czechoslovakia's 1970s plan to build a tunnel to the sea
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Case Study
Tropical Island
A Big Brandenburg Oasis
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Interview
Holding Back the Waves
Climate engineer Matthias Schuler achieves active solutions through passive measures
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Case Study
Stream Lines
Repurposed Dutch water defenses

Acoustics
09 May 2014
Magazine No. 21
Acoustics
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Essay
The Hear and Now
Jonathan Bell in conversation with Yasuhisa Toyota of Nagata Acoustics
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Essay
Aural Prosthesis
Lev Bratishenko on Arup’s Soundlab and the rise of virtual acoustics
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Found
David Byrne
"Playing the Building"
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Interview
His Master’s Voice
Interview with Edgar Wisniewski, Hans Scharoun's "silent" partner

Urban Commons
03 Apr 2014
Magazine No. 20
Urban Commons
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ESSAY
Renegotiating the Urban Commons
We have to fight for the right to shared space
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Interview
From Austerity to Audacity
Interview with Fran Tonkiss on the emerging urbanism of small acts
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Interview
Reclaim the City!
Andrej Holm on social struggles in a neo-liberalising city
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Essay
Architecture of the Civic Economy
Indy Johar's manifesto for soft power

Space
06 Mar 2014
Magazine No. 19
Space
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Interview
New World, Old Metaphors
Interview with Ricardo Scofidio
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Found
Galina Balashova
Space architect extraordinaire
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Interview
Per Artem Ad Astra
Interview with Michael Najjar
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Essay
Memories of the Moon Age
A Lunar love affair

Slovenia!
30 Jan 2014
Magazine No. 18
Slovenia!
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Interview
Design, Decline and Dogma
Interview with museum director Matevž Čelik on the status quo of Slovenian design
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Essay
Revolution without Patricide
Miha Dešman on what defines contemporary Slovenian architecture
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Interview
Nobody Loves the Hitler Beetle
Interview with artist Jasmina Cibic on cultural identity and the politics of display
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Found
Repeat Offenders
Vid Zabel and Katarina Čakš revisit Slovenia's homegrown Brutalism

Construct Africa
19 Dec 2013
Magazine No. 17
Construct Africa
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Interview
What is "Afritecture"?
Andres Lepik discusses the manifold issues raised by his exhibition in Munich
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Case Study
Red Location
Cultural Centre and Museum in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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Interview
Continental Shift
A group discussion about how to reconnect architecture with Africa
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Found
East Coast Critique
Dar es Salaam's ANZA Magazine

Carbon
28 Nov 2013
Magazine No. 16
Carbon
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Interview
The Lightest Touch
Architect Greg Lynn believes the good outweighs the bad when it comes to carbon composites
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Essay
Black to the Future
The charred-wood architecture of Terunobu Fujimori
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Essay
Greased Lightning
How carbon fibre and precision engineering have taken the drag out of yacht racing
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Essay
The Air that We Breathe
Has architecture lost its way en route to a post-carbon future?

Veins
31 Oct 2013
Magazine No. 15
Veins
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Essay
When Infrastructures Stop
Essay by Stephen Graham
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Interview
Centimeters, Kilometers, Escalators
Interview with Marcel Smets
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Interview
Protein Streams
Interview with Carolyn Steel
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Bookmarked
Bookmarked
Guest Reviewer: Charlotte Newman

Small Towns, Big Architecture
02 Oct 2013
Magazine No. 14
Small Towns, Big Architecture
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Photo Essay
Outsized I
Curiosities, cash cows and carbuncles...
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Essay
Small Town, Big Modernists
Trophy architecture in the Midwest
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Photo Booth
In the Photo Booth with...
Tatiana Bilbao
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Essay
The Colossus of Rügen
Prora, the gigantic Nazi-built resort on the Baltic Sea

Berlin
03 Sep 2013
Magazine No. 13
Berlin
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Viewpoint
In & Out Of Berlin 1
Francesca Ferguson, Bostjan Vuga
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Interview
360° View
In the Schinkel Pavilion with Nina Pohl
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Viewpoint
In & Out of Berlin 2
Mark Lee, Konstantin Grcic
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Essay
This Could Have Been Berlin
The visionary architecture of Engelbert Kremser

Into the Desert
25 Jul 2013
Magazine No. 12
Into the Desert
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Interview
Framed Views
Denise Scott Brown on the desert, Ed Ruscha, and the Pritzker Prize she never received
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Case Study
Dubai Thriller
The world's largest fountain dances to Michael Jackson
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Photo Essay
Pooling Around
Swimming through the history of New York City
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Photo Booth
In the Photo Booth with...
Beatrice Galillee

Charles Correa
20 Jun 2013
Magazine No. 11
Charles Correa
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Case Study
Kanchanjunga!
Correa's innovative “vertical bungalow” living
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Essay
Hornby Trains, Chinese Gardens and Architecture
Charles Correa reflects on his (locomotive) origins as an architect
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Interview
A Usable Art
In conversation with Charles Correa
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Essay
Mainland Shift
Charles Correa and the making of Navi Mumbai

Wood, Paper, Pulp
22 May 2013
Magazine No. 10
Wood, Paper, Pulp
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Photo Essay
Out Of The Woods
The construction of timber tastes
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Essay
Revenge Appreciation in Suburbia
The hidden presence of timber in the American home
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Essay
Wood, Paper, Vodka...And Ice
Alexander Brodsky recasts traditional Russian materials
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Photo Booth
In the Photo Booth with...
Charles Holland

Constructing Images
18 Apr 2013
Magazine No. 09
Constructing Images
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Interview
Every Image is a Construction
Kersten Geers on ambiguity in images and architecture – and avoiding photorealism
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Interview
Behind the Façade
Ingrid von Kruse captures the personalities of starchitects
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Photo Essay
Modern Ruins
Julia Schulz-Dornburg photographs Spain‘s unfinished buildings
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Essay
The Full & The Empty
Economic crisis and the abandoned developments in Spain

Culture & the City
21 Mar 2013
Magazine No. 08
Culture & the City
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Essay
Culture and the City
On Content and Form
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Essay
Containers Without Content
The disastrous roll-out of the Bilbao Effect across Spain
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Case Study
Beacon for Learning
Parque Biblioteca España
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Essay
The Island of Happiness
The shadowy story of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Off Places
21 Feb 2013
Magazine No. 07
Off Places
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Essay
Furka Pass
A closed hotel, nothing much to see – yet Jenny Holzer, Sean Connery, and Rem Koolhaas have all been here …
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Interview
Strangely Familiar
Todd Saunders and the Architecture of Lonely Places
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Essay
Revelations of atelier le balto
Cultivating beauty in the off-spaces of Berlin
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Photo Booth
In the Photo Booth with...
Gottfried Böhm

Perspectives on Design
22 Jan 2013
Magazine No. 06
Perspectives on Design
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Interview
The Elastic City
Michael Maltzan about California Modernism, homelessness, and L.A. as a democratic city
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Photo Booth
In the photo booth with...
Pedro Gadanho
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Interview
An Ever-Moving Train
Rolf Fehlbaum and Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec on their relationship.
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Interview
A Room for Tea
Sevil Peach expounds upon human needs, good neighborhoods, and culturally-appropriate office design

Apocalypse Soon!
13 Dec 2012
Magazine No. 05
Apocalypse Soon!
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Essay
Fighting Nature With Nature
Creating resilient urban environments against natural catastrophes
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Found
Zombie Proof
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Essay
Under Tomorrow's Sky
The speculative futures of Liam Young
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Case Study
Escape to Space!

Concrete
15 Nov 2012
Magazine No. 04
Concrete
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Essay
Costa Concrete
The high-rise vacation city of Benidorm
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Photo Booth
In the Photo Booth with...
Heike Klussmann and Thorsten Klooster
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Essay
Beirut’s Saint Joseph University
Youssef Tohme and 109 architects use concrete to raise questions
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Revisited
A Brutalist Love Story
Boston City Hall

Manuelle Gautrand
11 Oct 2012
Magazine No. 03
Manuelle Gautrand
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Essay
Constructing Architecture as Narrative Sculpture
A profile of Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
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Interview
Folding Emotion into Architecture
Manuelle Gautrand on origami architecture and built emotions
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Photo Booth
In the Photo Booth with...
Bostjan Vuga
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Essay
New Arcadians
Economic gloom sees young UK architects get creative with their practices

Venice & the Common Ground
18 Sep 2012
Magazine No. 02
Venice & the Common Ground
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Photo Essay
Excavating the Common Ground
Our highlights from the two main exhibitions
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Essay
Architecture observes itself
This biennale misses social and political topics – and voices from outside Europe
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Interview
Stimulators and Moderators
Jury member Kristin Feireiss about the Golden Lion awards
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Essay
Dark Side Club 2012
The dark side of debate

Pilgrimage & the Architect
23 Aug 2012
Magazine No. 01
Pilgrimage & the Architect
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Interview
When the Building Comes as a Surprise
Barry Bergdoll speaks about travelling to Brno, Brasilia, and Bilbao
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Photo Essay
Ruta del Peregrino
Iwan Baan's impressions of Mexico's most famous pilgrimage route
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Essay
Enlightenment at Burning Man
A pilgrimage of participation
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Viewpoint
I Know Where You Live
On stalking architecture – and architecture stalkers
