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Volume: An Indie quarterly for architecture to go beyond itself Editor in Chief: Arjen Oosterman Founding Editors: Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley Volume is a project by ARCHIS + AMO + C-Lab + Urban China Archis Lilet Breddels, Joos van den Dool, Amir Djajali, Christian Ernsten, Edwin Gardner, Maria João Ribeiro AMO Reinier de Graaf C-Lab Jeffrey Inaba, Benedict Clouette, Dana Karwas, Arielle Assouline-Lichten, Shumi Bose, Greg Bugel, Cody Campanie, Wayne Conger, Dana Karwas, Zach Heineman, Winnie Lam, April Lee, Kate Meagher, Talene Montgomery, Annabelle Pang, Jesse Seegers, Liz Stetson and Troy Therrien AMO is a research and design studio that applies architectural thinking to disciplines beyond the borders of architecture and urbanism. AMO operates in tandem with its companion company the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. www.oma.nl ARCHIS is a magazine for architecture, the city and visual culture and its predecessors since 1929. Archis—publishers, tools, interventionsis an experi-
mental think tank devoted to the process of real-time spatial and cultural reflexivity. archis.org C-Lab, The Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting, is an experimental research unit devoted to the development of new forms of communication in architecture, set up as a semiautonomous think and action tank at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University. arch.columbia.edu Urban China is a multidimensional text combining profound issues and simple narration, formal official discourse and vivid folk interpretation. It currently has studios in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzho. urbanchina.com.cn/ Printed by EAP, Seoul, Korea. Administrative Coordination: Jessica Braun Editorial Office: Studio-X 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610 New York, New York 10014 c-lab.columbia.edu/ Volume has been made possible with the support of Mondrian Foundation Amsterdam Contributors: Lucia Allais is a Behrman-Cotsen Fellow at the Princeton University Society of Fellows. Erin Aigner is a Graphics Editor at the New York Times. Shigeru Ban is an architect in Tokyo. Cory Booker is the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Gavin Browning is the Programming Coordinator of Studio-X at Columbia University GSAPP.
Keller Easterling is an architect and writer from New York City. Omar Freilla is the founder of Green Workers Cooperative in the South Bronx. David Gissen is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Visual Studies at California College of the Arts. Steven Hart is the author of The Last Three Miles: Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America’s First Superhighway. Laura Hanna is a filmmaker and co-founder of Hidden Driver.
James McConnell is the Director of Geographic Info Systems at the New York City Office of Emergency Management. John McMorrough is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Ohio State University. Leah Meisterlin is an M.Arch. candidate at Columbia University GSAPP. Ginger Nolan is pursuing a Ph.D. in Architecture History at Columbia University. Jorge Otero-Pailos is an Assistant Prof. of Historic Preservation at Columbia University GSAPP.
Manuel Herz is an architect based in Cologne and Basel.
Martha Rosler is a visual artist and the author of numerous books.
Ina Howard-Parker is the founder of Represent Agency.
Ben Rubin is a media artist based in New York City.
Jeffrey Inaba is the Director of C-Lab at Columbia University GSAPP.
Rachel Schreiber is the Director of Humanities and Sciences at California College of the Arts.
Janette Kim is the Director of the Urban Landscape Lab at Columbia University GSAPP.
SLAB is a Brooklyn-based architecture firm run by Jeffrey Johnson and Jill Leckner
Stephen Graham is Professor of Human Geography at Durham University.
Su Yunsheng is the redactor-inchief of Urban China.
Joseph Grima is the Director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture. Mark Hansen is an Associate Professor of Statistics at UCLA. Christopher Hawthorne is the Architecture Critic at the LA Times. Todd Hido is a photographer of landscapes and people. Hsieh Ying-chun is an architect in Taiwan. Huang Weiwen is the Director of the Shenzhen Planning Bureau. Sam Jacobs is a founding director of FAT. Jiang Jun is the editor of Urban China. Jeffrey Johnson is the Director of China Lab at Columbia University GSAPP.
Erik Carver is an architect in New York.
Laura Kurgan is the Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University GSAPP.
Jean Choi is pursuing an M.Arch at Princeton University.
Liu Jiakun is the chief architect of Jiakun Architects Studio.
Aaron Davis is an M.Arch. candidate at Columbia University GSAPP.
Geoff Manaugh is the writer of BLDGBLOG.
Kazys Varnelis is the Director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University GSAPP. Eyal Weizman is the Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College. Mark Wigley is the Dean of Columbia University GSAPP. Oleg Yavorsky is the Director of PR for GCS Game World. Haifa Zangana is the author of City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War & Resistance. Jason Zuzga is a poet and the Non Fiction Editor of Fence. Crisis Devices Research and design by Egbert Chu, Jessica Dobkin, Aimee Duquette, Allan Horton, Jeffrey Johnson, Taka Sarui, Magda Wala Tripping the Light Fantastic Research and graphics by Greg Bugel, Benedict Clouette, Zach Heineman, April Lee, Troy Therrien and LabRAD (Wayne Congar and Arielle Assouline-Lichten). Unfriendly Skies Research and graphics by Kate Meagher