Colophon Volume 36
VOLUME Independent quarterly for architecture to go beyond itself editor-in-chief Arjen Oosterman contributing editors Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley feature editor Jeffrey Inaba VOLUME is a project by ARCHIS + AMO + C-Lab + ... ARCHIS Lilet Breddels, Brendan Cormier, Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, Anais Massot, Urte Rimsaite, Kai Vöckler, Justine Yan – Archis advisers Thomas Daniell, Joos van den Dool, Christian Ernsten, Edwin Gardner, Bart Goldhoorn, Rory Hyde, Vincent Schipper AMO Reinier de Graaf, James Westcott C-Lab Jeffrey Inaba, Benedict Clouette, Helen-Rose Condon, Jillian Crandall, Phillip Denny, Mana Ikebe, Katie Okamoto, Corinne Quin, Frédéric Schnee, Brandon Wagner. C-Lab advisers Barry Bergdoll, Gary Hattem, Jiang Jun, John S. Johnson, Lewis H. Lapham. Materialized by Irma Boom and Sonja Haller VOLUME’s protagonists are ARCHIS, magazine for Architecture, City and Visual Culture and its predecessors since 1929. Archis – Publishers, Tools, Interventions – is an experimental think tank devoted to the process of real-time spatial and cultural reflexivity. www.archis.org AMO, 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.eu 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 semi-autonomous think and action tank at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University. c-lab.columbia.edu VOLUME is published by Stichting Archis, the Netherlands and printed by Die Keure, Belgium. Editorial office PO Box 14702, 1001 LE Amsterdam, The Netherlands T +31 (0)20 320 3926, F +31 (0)20 320 3927, E info@archis.org, W www.archis.org Subscriptions Bruil & Van de Staaij, Postbus 75, 7940 AB Meppel, The Netherlands, T +31 (0)522 261 303, F +31 (0)522 257 827, E volume@bruil. info, W www.bruil.info/volume Subscription rates 4 issues: €75 Netherlands, €91 World, $99 USA, Student subscription rates: €60 Netherlands, €73 World, Prices excl. VAT Cancellations policy Cancellation of subscription to be confirmed in writing one month before the end of the subscription period. Subscriptions not cancelled on time will be automatically extended for one year. Back issues Back issues of VOLUME and forerunner Archis (NL and E) are available through Bruil & van de Staaij Advertising pr@archis.org, For rates and details see: www.volumeproject.org/advertise/ C-Lab administrative coordination Margel Nusbaumer General distribution Idea Books, Nieuwe Herengracht 11, 1011 RK Amsterdam, The Netherlands, T +31 (0)20 622 6154, F +31 (0)20 620 9299, idea@ideabook.nl For North American Distribution: Disticor Magazine Distribution Services, 695 Westney Road South, Suite 14 Ajax, Ontario, L1S 6M9, Canada, T +1 905-619-6565, F +1 905-619-2903, W www.disticor.com ISSN 1574-9401, ISBN 9789077966365 Contributors Amelia Borg is a director at SIBLING. She has collaborated with architecture studios and artists in London, Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Melbourne. She has worked as a researcher for Archis/Volume and is currently teaching at RMIT University and Monash University. Michèle Champagne is a designer and writer working in branding and editorial. Her expertise lies in open source dynamics – from crowdsourcing for dialogue in That New Design Smell, to branding for Mediamatic Travel. Justine Clark is an architectural writer, editor and critic. She is an honorary senior fellow at the University of Melbourne, editor of the website Parlour, and former editor of Architecture Australia. Professor Paul Walker is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. Justine and Paul are authors of Looking for the Local: Architecture and the New Zealand Modern.
Bernard Colenbrander is an architectural historian who started his career in the 1980s at the Netherlands Architecture Institute. Since 2005 he is professor at the Faculty of the Built Environment, TU Eindhoven. Demilit was founded in 2010 by Bryan Finoki, Nick Sowers, and Javier Arbona. The trio works with various collaborators on specific pro jects, performances, and improvisations, as well as in arts education. Demilit is a collaboration focused on walking, exploring, listening, and experimenting. Rob Dettingmeijer is an Utrecht-based independent researcher, author, and (guest)curator specializing in theory and history of architecture, urban planning, landscape design and visual culture. He is co-founder of the European Architectural History Network (www.eahn.org). Sergio Miguel Figueiredo is an architect, urbanist and Fulbright scholar at UCLA, researching the NAi and the role of architecture museums in the production and consumption of architectural discourse and practice. FranÇoise Fromonot is an architect and professor at ENSA ParisBelleville. She is a co-founding member and contributing editor of criticat. A criticat reader compiling English translations will be published in 2014. Jan van Grunsven is an architect whose work builds on the conceptual art of the 1970s; subjecting the practice of exhibiting to a systematic critical analysis. For many years he was senior lecturer at the Institute of the Arts in Arnhem Owen Hatherley is the author of four books, the most recent being A New Kind of Bleak - Journeys through Urban Britain and an e-book, Across the Plaza. Charles Holland is an architect, writer and teacher. He is a director of the architecture practice FAT (fashionarchitecturetaste.com) and a visiting professor at Yale University. He writes about architecture and design for various magazines as well as for his blog Fantastic Journal. Klaus is a frustrated cartoonist who lives in an old castle in Europe, intermittently uploading his cartoons on Klaustoon’s Blog. In his other life he is also Luis Miguel (Koldo) Lus Arana, a PhD architect and researcher, mainly interested in the intersections between comics, mass media, architecture, and the city. Jimenez Lai is an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and Leader of Bureau Spectacular. Previously, Jimenez Lai has lived and worked in a desert shelter at Taliesin and resided in a shipping container at Atelier Van Lieshout on the piers of Rotterdam. Justin McGuirk is a writer, critic and curator based in London. He is the director of Strelka Press, the publishing arm of the Strelka Institute in Moscow, and the design consultant to Domus. Markus Miessen is an architect, consultant and writer. The initiator of the Participation quadrilogy, his work revolves around questions of critical spatial practice, institution building, and spatial politics. He is currently a professor for Critical Spatial Practice at the Städelschule, Frankfurt, and guest professor at HEAD Geneva as well as USC Los Angeles. Luca Molinari is professor of contemporary history of architecture at the Faculty of Architecture L.Vanvitelli, in Naples. He is also a critic and has curated architecture shows at the Triennale of Milan (2001-2005) and the Italian Pavilion at the 12th Biennale of Architecture in Venice. Timothy Moore is a director at SIBLING. He has worked for architecture studios in Berlin, Amsterdam and Melbourne. His has held the positions of managing editor at Archis/Volume and editor of Architecture Australia. He is currently teaching at RMIT University. Douglas Murphy is architecture correspondent for Icon magazine, is the author of The Architecture of Failure, from Zero Books, and is currently working on a new book for Verso. Steve Parnell is an architect, critic, and lecturer at the University of Nottingham. In 2012 he won the RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis. His exhibition, Architecture Magazines: Playgrounds and Battlegrounds, was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Colin Ripley is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University in Toronto. He is also a director of RVTR (www.rvtr.com), which operates as a bridge between academic research practices and professional practices in architecture. Fred Scharmen and Michael Stanton teach, write, design and occasionally dabble in things artistic in Baltimore, Maryland. Fred is completing a project on space colonies, past and future, and Michael just finished a book on the American city as the product of paradox. Naomi Stead is an academic and critic based in Brisbane, Australia. She is a senior research fellow at the research center ATCH in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland. Fabrizia Vecchione is a graduate of the Florence Architecture University and is currently web editor at Domus. Her writing has been published in a variety of printed and digital international magazines, such as Domus, Frame, Mark and Pin-Up. WAI Architecture Think Tank is a workshop for architectural intelligentsia based in Beijing. Founded in Brussels in 2008 by Puerto Rican architect and artist Cruz Garcia, and French architect and artist Nathalie Frankowski, WAI continuously asks What About It? Mimi Zeiger is a Los Angeles-based journalist and critic, covering architecture, art, urbanism, and design. She’s editor of loud paper and a founding member of #lgnlgn.
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