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The essay is a genre in itself – one that lies between art and science. It is joined to science in how the essay form strives towards knowledge and how it engenders the making of statements, and to art by its mode of knowledge and expression. Unlike th …

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At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, this issue examines the hidden mechanics and visible output of design practice in order to track the shifting role of designers in society and to gauge the capacity of …

AA Files is the Architectural Association School of Architecture’s journal of record and the successor to a long line of AA house journals (including titles such as AA Notes, AA Journal, Arena and AAQ) that began with the school’s founding in 1847. Launched in 1981 by the AA’s then chairman, Alvin Boyarsky, the journal appears twice a year and is sent out to members of the Architectural Association, individual subscribers and is distributed to a global network of bookshops.

Each issue of Mono.Kultur is dedicated to one interview with a creative type. The dimensions remain the same every time, but the design and finishing is completely rethought to reflect the issues’s subject. In this anniversary issue, the focus is on fi …

Umbau – Maßstäbe der Transformation

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The Summer edition of FRAME delves deep into the critical factors the design industry must confront in a future dominated by AI, extended realities and other cutting-edge technologies.

With her site-specific interventions, the artist Karin Sander intervenes in the structures of spaces and institutions, changes them, re-contextualizes them and calls for their participatory appropriation. In this monographic publication, the artist doe …

With this second collaborative issue between Archis Foundation and Nieuwe Instituut, the magazine is now a cross-pollinator between its editorial content and the programmes of the Nieuwe Instituut itself. “World Tour 2023” is about appreciating “the na …

If reality were solely based on Linkedin announcements, design biennials, and conferences, you’d think design and architecture are nearing perfection in terms of complete sustainable design. In contrast, the actual practice of circular building is mess …

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With her site-specific interventions, the artist Karin Sander intervenes in the structures of spaces and institutions, changes them, re-contextualizes them and calls for their participatory appropriation. In this monographic publication, the artist doe …

usa, 2023

Anyone looking for role models for a successful housing policy will sooner or later end up in “Red Vienna”. Its myth is unbroken and owes its existence to the Viennese municipality’s enduring political insight that housing is a social responsibility an …

„Der Architektur ein Bewusstsein ihrer selbst zu geben“, in Abwandlung des Mottos, der Gesellschaft ein Bewusstsein ihrer selbst zu geben, war das einführende Gespräch überschrieben, das Klaus Heinrich mit uns im Jahre 2015 zur Herausgabe seiner Arch …

Frame magazine is the world’s leading interior-design publication. The bimonthly magazine is filled with inspiring projects and stunning photography from all sectors of the international interiors industry. Since 1997, Frame has remained faithful to it …

The essay is a genre in itself – one that lies between art and science. It is joined to science in how the essay form strives towards knowledge and how it engenders the making of statements, and to art by its mode of knowledge and expression. Unlike th …

Für einen erweiterten Architekturbegriff Die erste Ausgabe des interdisziplinären Periodikums forA on the Urban untersucht die offene, vielschichtige, vernetzte, komplexe und entfesselte Natur urbaner Manifestationen. Anhand von elf Beiträgen von achtz …

It isn’t the representation of violence in the Gaza Strip that is so disturbing; it is the absence of representation. The grief and despair of a child is penetratingly real. The extreme realism of these events has now driven a wedge between our realiti …

Der Plan wird als universelles Medium der Kommunikation und Produktion von Architektur betrachtet, in dem soziologische und politische Dimensionen der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart eingeschrieben sind. Er ist Sprache und ein kollektives, graphisches Werkzeug, das die Dinge ordnet. Er ist Speicher des Wissens. Horizonte sucht in seiner zwölften Ausgabe nach diversen Positionen, Thesen und Erzählungen, die Pläne in sich tragen – zwischen und innerhalb von Wänden. Als Träger von Erinnerung, auf Konfrontation, normiert und einzigartig. _ The plan is considered as a universal medium for the communication and production of architecture in which the sociological an political dimensions of the past and present are inscribed. It is a language and a collective, graphical tool that maps thoughts and ideas. It is memory of knowledge. In it’s twelfth issue, Horizonte is looking for diverse positions, theses and stories containing plans – in between and inside of walls. As carrier of memories, headed for confrontation, up to scale and unique.

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Multihyphenation refers to alternate modes of creative production: “collab” culture, “brand X brand” projects, and multiple or even opaque styles of attribution and ownership among individuals, studios, and practices. For them, the body of work they pr …

The Great Repair” is an oxymoron. The title captures the convergence of two seemingly contradictory principles: the revolutionary ambition for systemic change and the evolutionary act of repair. The resulting aspiration is one that, despite its plea fo …

It seems that—with increased urgency—we are more frequently finding ourselves grasping for an “after,” especially as we face futures with apprehension. “After” exists at different scales of time and context: there’s after an instant, after a day, after …

AA Files 75 features essays by Freya Wigzell, Kristina Jaspers, Claire Zimmerman, Laila Seewang, Roberta Marcaccio, Rebecca Siefert, Shantel Blakely, Francesco Zuddas, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Victor Plahte Tschudi, Francisco González de Canales, Ross …

DIRECT PERCEPTION We spend almost a third of our lives connected to the internet, in a space-time of total internal reflection. Online lacks any randomness or chance; and this illusion of fate and order is at odds with the actual structure of the unive …

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Open for Maintenance is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, which is curated by ARCH+ and the SUMMACUMFEMMER BÜRO JULIANE GREB collective and will feature in the German Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. The p …

Open for Maintenance is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, which is curated by ARCH+ and the SUMMACUMFEMMER BÜRO JULIANE GREB collective and will feature in the German Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. The p …

The modern capitalist era, with its emphasis on growth and progress and an economic system based on consumption, wastage, and resources being bled dry, has led to the ruthless exploitation of people and nature. As a counter to this, “The Great Repair” …

Detailing and analysing approaches that anticipate change – from shifting user needs to fluctuating functions – FRAME’s Agility-themed Spring issue provides a directory for resilient design.

The State of Spatial Design FRAME’s 2023 specialissue (February/March) kicks off the year by putting the current state of spatial design under the microscope. Which issues concern designers and their clients? How do they influence the way spaces and pr …

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Nothing about how we live today is sustainable. Therefore, a profound paradigm shift is imminent (indeed is already underway). To paraphrase Marx and Engels, all that is solid has melted into air, all that was sacred has been profaned, and humanity is …

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With 64 guides spread throughout the 68 pages of the issue, ‘The Ultimate Guide to Guides’ helps architects and designers to navigate the immediate future of their profession and reflect on the role of guides, manuals and tutorials today. Architecture’ …

“A terrible mechanism [is] on the march, its gears multiplying.” So begins the 48th issue of Harvard Design Magazine, guest edited by Mark Lee, chair of the department of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Florencia Rodriguez, e …

The hyperconnected world of the late 20th and early 21st centuries has revealed that effortless mobility, wealth, and access for some has been attained at the cost of immobility, inequity, and displacement for others. We have entered a phase of critica …

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Sloft Magazine Depuis 2017, Sloft Magazine vous connecte au monde de l’architecture, du design et de la décoration autour de projets accessibles et compacts.

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