Volume #27
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With the Western world heading towards a life expectancy of 100 years, the question is: with the realm of architectural invention ready for the taking, are you ready to face getting old?
While visions of a country full of geriatric hospitals and nursing homes come to mind, there is an urgent design task to reintegrate the aged into the labor market and also healthcare facilities into the domestic setting. And this population segment can provide a new capacity to capture wisdom and experience. The deterioration of mind, body and the urban environment suggests we have a fight on our hands to stay young: but do we really have the energy to live and build for eternity?
This issue explores these ideas through current architectural typologies and institutional approaches over vast territory: from the nuclear industry that builds until One Billon AD to the top-down and bottom-up growth of New York, Tehran, Berlin and Newcastle.
The aging issue of Volume is a necessary compendium for those who wish to design into the future by understanding the immediate challenges of today.
Volume #27: Aging
184 pages, including an insert on Trust, Design and Aging edited by Scott Burnham
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9 789 077 966 273
Price: € 19.50
Release: April 14, 2011
Editor in chief: Arjen Oosterman
Contributing editors: Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley
Design: Irma Boom and Sonja Haller
Publisher: Stichting Archis
Click here to order this issue. For more information regarding this issue, please contact Valérie Blom at pr@archis.org.
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[...] (trust as product, not to be mixed up with trust as lubricant for sales) with the presentation of Volume 27: Aging and the insert Trust Design: Design, Trust, Aging. (click here for photo’s and ‘soundbites’ [...]
[...] of the latest research project run by Premsela and Archis, which you can find as a supplement to the latest Volume issue in the shape of a record. Scott Burnham spent many of his last years researching design and [...]
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this issue arrived in the magazine store frankurt/m main train station in very bad condition (Giant dog-ears and holes in the cover). The distributor did not handled it with enough care.
[...] Volume #27 | R: Combinatory [...]
[...] Volume #27: Aging Back in 2005 I reviewed Volume No.1, a then much anticipated project by Archis + AMO, and C-lab, the three protagonists of the “independent quarterly magazine that sets the agenda for architecture and design.” Between that first issue and #27 I’ve only obtained the special issue bootlegged for the Urban China exhibition in 2009, so my early questions as to the influence of Volume is hard to say, but it’s clear from #27 that things have changed just as they’ve stayed the same. In the former camp, the design and page layout have simplified so the content is at the fore, not buried under saturated color and graphics; in the case of the latter, the desire to push the limits that “challenge the mandate and self conception of architecture” towards “new modes of operation” seems stable. The theme “Aging” could be thought of by architect to simply mean “the design of nursing homes” — a few are presented in the pages of issue 27 — but the contributions by the wide circle of writers (much wider than the first issue, but a fairly closed circle nevertheless) cover the topic in many ways that are less direct towards traditional architectural production. These range from looking at how cities address and ignore aging populations to graphing how long materials last to questions about reconstructing cities and even how the nuclear industry looks ahead billions of years. I grabbed the issue because of Deane Simpson’s pieces on The Villages, the world’s largest retirement community, a place I have been to many times. I’ve always thought the place deserved some study, since it’s been overshadowed by the nearby Florida community Celebration and offers more lessons on the reality of planned communities rather than one Disney ideal. Simpson’s well-illustrated essay hit on a number of things I’ve witnessed, but it opened my eyes to its history and its economic and political characteristics. Coming after a piece on Iranian bazaars, it’s a good illustration of Volume‘s broader take on architecture, culture, and politics. [...]