Everyday Life Conventions
The buildings presented in the Home theme issue made Fernando Nieto think about the design process of a house.
Too Small to Fail?
The House by an Architect exhibition presented seven mini houses less than 30 square metres in size as part of the Fiskars Art and Design Biennale. The message of the exhibition ultimately remained unclear, writes Lee Marable.
Xenakis Centenary Exhibition in Paris
The centenary exhibition showcases Iannis Xenakis’s key artistic and theoretical breakthroughs within music and architecture.
For the Love of Life
Eighteen small booklets contain the discussions of Pritzker Prize winning architect Peter Zumthor with seventeen different artists and experts.
The Dark Side of the Garden
The encyclopedic book brings together a versatile collection of fragments related to gardening.
Editorial 3/2022: On Nature’s Terms
The climate crisis and biodiversity loss will in the coming years force the building sector to radically overhaul its practices. At the same time it is appropriate to consider the relationship between nature and the built environment from more theoretical viewpoints, writes Kristo Vesikansa.
Form Follows Fuel – Building Our Way into (and out of?) Climate Emergency
Historian of architecture Barnabas Calder traces the architectural history and future from the point of view of energy.
Three Perspectives on the Posthumanist Living Environment
How could the design professionals be better involved in resolving increasing environmental crises and reducing the negative impact of construction on the environment? The concept of posthumanism offers new viewpoints for the organisation of the field.
Architecture as the Politics of Reconstruction
The ever-worsening climate crisis places the built environment at the center of politics and ecological reconstruction of society, where architecture plays a central role. The question remains, what the architecture of ecological reconstruction should be like?