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If a crisis is imminent, we need strong policies to cope with it. If the world is facing a crisis of debt, a crisis of truth, a crisis of sprawl and a crisis of purpose, what can design do?
Volume 9 : Crisis! What crisis? - suburbia after the crash
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Is it possible for a magazine to help craft the agenda for an ubiquitous China? "Volume 8" tackles the problem full on, presenting a wide range of articles that cover everything from the Confucian-Taoist nexus, utopianism and Google.cn, to the publishing industry, architects as businessmen and chaos in control.
Volume no. 8 : ubiquitous China - craft agenda for the world to come
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Is it possible for a magazine to help craft the agenda for an ubiquitous China? "Volume 8" tackles the problem full on, presenting a wide range of articles that cover everything from the Confucian-Taoist nexus, utopianism and Google.cn, to the publishing industry, architects as businessmen and chaos in control.
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Following on from the two previous issues which tackled various representations of power in architecture, this third number goes a step further and demonstrates how power is using architecture not just simply to express itself, but to organise itself. The central thesis reflected in this timely and wide-ranging collection of articles and images is that power structures(...)
Volume 7 : architecture of power, part 3
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Following on from the two previous issues which tackled various representations of power in architecture, this third number goes a step further and demonstrates how power is using architecture not just simply to express itself, but to organise itself. The central thesis reflected in this timely and wide-ranging collection of articles and images is that power structures and power relations think architecturally in order to be successful.
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Volume is a project by Archis + AMO + C-LAB + ... Francesco Bonami, Ole Bouman, Zvi Efrat, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, Markus Miessen, Lina Stergiou and many others, on entrance lobbies, historical monuments, hotels, megachurches, museums, palaces, penthouses, prisons, security fences, etc.
Volume no. 6 : architecture of power - part 2 - power building
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Volume no. 5 : the architecture of power, part 1 - power in the details
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Volume is a project by AMO + C-LAB + Archis.
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Volume 12 : Al Manakh
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Unveiled at the International Design Forum, held this year in Dubai, "Al Manakh" provides a long overdue, and much needed survey of the current state of architecture and design in the Middle East. Comprising three sections, the first features a guide to Dubai, edited by Moutamarat; the second, a survey of planning and development in the Gulf States, by AMO; and lastly, a(...)
Architecture since 1900, Middle-East
August 2007, Amsterdam
Volume 12 : Al Manakh
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Unveiled at the International Design Forum, held this year in Dubai, "Al Manakh" provides a long overdue, and much needed survey of the current state of architecture and design in the Middle East. Comprising three sections, the first features a guide to Dubai, edited by Moutamarat; the second, a survey of planning and development in the Gulf States, by AMO; and lastly, a Global Agenda for design, as envisioned by Archis. Illustrated throughout, and accompanied by essays and commentaries, "Al Manakh" provides valuable insights into a dynamic and volatile region.
Architecture since 1900, Middle-East
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It seems an eternal distinction: sometimes people build, sometimes they destroy. However, since we have a concept of modernity, we also understand that building is very often based on sheer destruction. It is ‘the price of progress’. A new insight is now emerging: much destruction also has an agenda. It has a precision that reminds us of architecture. It has a formal(...)
Volume 11 : cities unbuilt
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It seems an eternal distinction: sometimes people build, sometimes they destroy. However, since we have a concept of modernity, we also understand that building is very often based on sheer destruction. It is ‘the price of progress’. A new insight is now emerging: much destruction also has an agenda. It has a precision that reminds us of architecture. It has a formal dimension that reminds us of design. In this issue: explore the sinister creativity of Cities Unbuilt.
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May 2007, Amsterdam
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The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) awarded the first NAI Prize in 2002. It was awarded to the best building realized during the last two years by an architects under 40 years of age. the NAI will once again be awarding the prize under the title AM-NAI Prize 2004. Fresher Facts presents the four nominated projects in detail and explains the context in which these(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
March 2005, Rotterdam
Fresher facts : the best buildings by young architects in the Netherlands
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The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) awarded the first NAI Prize in 2002. It was awarded to the best building realized during the last two years by an architects under 40 years of age. the NAI will once again be awarding the prize under the title AM-NAI Prize 2004. Fresher Facts presents the four nominated projects in detail and explains the context in which these four buildings were created.
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March 2005, Rotterdam
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In order to actively grapple with the challenges of our age, architects have to transform themselves from extremely competent executors of assignments into entrepreneurs and producers. This issue of Volume discusses essential tools to reclaim professional autonomy. In the first part, Volume sits ‘Around the table’ with forward-thinking practitioners who see a different(...)
Volume 14: Unsolicited architecture
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In order to actively grapple with the challenges of our age, architects have to transform themselves from extremely competent executors of assignments into entrepreneurs and producers. This issue of Volume discusses essential tools to reclaim professional autonomy. In the first part, Volume sits ‘Around the table’ with forward-thinking practitioners who see a different role and responsibility for architects. The central part presents the portfolio of the Office for Unsolicited Architecture founded by Ole Bouman and students of MIT. The third part marks the unsolicited world according to young architects and artists from around the globe.
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