Volume 10 Years
A Gift From Japan
— by Archis/Volume
For our 10th anniversary, we received a wonderful gift from one of our Japanese readers. This is simply amazing, you have never seen anything like this!
Volume 10 Years
Thank You!
— by Archis/Volume
Volume wants to thank all of you who showed up at our events in New York and Amsterdam. Without you, it wouldn’t have been as great as it was. We are looking forward for the next ten years!
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Volume 10 Years Quiz
— by Archis/Volume
To end the celebrations of our 10-year anniversary with a bang, we will be holding a competition to refresh your memory and give you the opportunity to become Volume’s number one historian.
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Volume #38 – Jason Griffiths: Taste Is Law
— by Renny Ramakers
From seventeenth-century painter Claude Lorrain to the modern-day Home Owners Association (HOA), the Picturesque has come a long way. Today it appears that the ineffable charms of what Kenneth Clark described as “the most enchanting dream that has ever consoled man”, is enshrined in the rules and regulations that make up most residential developments across the United States.
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Volume #33 – Beatriz Colomina – Radical Interiority: Playboy Architecture 1953-1979
— by Paula V. Álvarez
‘Radical Interiority’ is a masterful piece of storytelling. It is smart, taut, engaging and propulsive. It symbolizes one of the most genuine values of Volume: to show the forces that shape our world and habitat with and without the conscience intervention of professional designers and planners; to reveal how things are made; and, to claim the utility of architectural intelligence as a mode of thought, as a splendid tool not only to operate in the world but also to explain a state of things.
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Volume #38 – Ada Colau in conversation with Quaderns: Re-righting Ownership
— by Merve Bedir
The housing question is about the system, the (no) rule, and the law. Aspects of it, such as displacement, privatization, (in)equality, crisis are relevant to all of us. In response to how to deal with the question, Ada Colau mentions that we need to look at it across disciplines, nations, relations. She also gives good clues for architects, as well as for architectural education.
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Volume #41 — Bart Lootsma — The Tyrolean House: Invented Tradition or Simulacrum?
— by Kai Vöckler
“Have you ever been in the Alps? To understand how a single house can stand for a nation, read Bart Lootsma’s article on the Tyrolean House. It looks vernacular, but in fact it is an invented tradition which dates back to 1900 – it simulates tradition, which works pretty well for tourism, and produces an interesting form of camouflage architecture.”
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Volume #22 — Charles Esche: Guided by Anger and Hope
— by Lina Stergiou
2015 marks our 10th anniversary! Volume has invited people from its network to select a favorite article/contribution. This week we highlight a personal favorite of Lina Stergiou, architect, co-founder of 4Life Strategies, Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, and principal of LS/Architecture&Strategies.
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Arjen Oosterman Speaks Volumes in Brussels
— by Jeroen Beekmans
For those who are in Brussels (or want to go there for joined celebrations) on Wednesday October 21, Volume editor-in-chief Arjen Oosterman will tell how and most of all why the project came into being and what he foresees for the future.
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Volume #5 — Power Seating
— by Timothy Moore
For the tenth anniversary of Volume, Timothy Moore, director of architecture practice SIBLING and former managing editor at Volume, remembers an early issue of Volume dedicated to power where image came to the fore. (F*ck context.) Timothy dropped by the Archis office to deliver the article in person while in Amsterdam to research his PhD on ‘The Instruments of Transitional Architecture’.
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Volume #11 — Andrew Herscher: Warchitecture / Post-Warchitecture
— by Malkit Shoshan
2015 marks Volume’s 10th birthday. We’re currently republishing our readers’ favorite articles. This week features a personal favorite of Malkit Shoshan, architect and founder of the think tank FAST.
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Volume #2 — Mark Wigley: Towards a History of Quantity
— by Gianluca Croce
Today we feature a personal favorite of Gianluca Croce, an avid Volume reader. Gianluca is currently finishing his Masters of Science in Architecture at the Facoltà di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy.
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Volume #24 — Kevin Kelly: Infinite Faith
— by dpr-barcelona
We’re asking Volume readers and friends to pick their favorite article. Ethel Baraona Pohl, co-founder of dpr-barcelona, has chosen an interview with Kevin Kelly that was published in Volume #24 Counterculture.
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Volume #23 — Larry Beasley: Abu Dhabi’s Renewed Urbanism
— by Brendan Cormier
Brendan Cormier, Lead Curator of 20th and 21st Century Design for the Shekou Partnership at Victoria and Albert Museum and former managing editor at Volume, has picked a head-to-head between Rem Koolhaas and Larry Beasley that was published in Volume #23 Al Manakh Gulf Continued.
Volume 10 Years
Volume 10 Years
— by Jeroen Beekmans
Volume has invited people from its network to select a favorite article/contribution and indicate in a few lines why. The coming weeks and months we’ll republish their choices with their motivation. If you feel tempted to highlight a personal favorite with a brief motivation, please send us an email and we may be able to include it in this series: 10years@archis.org. We’re thrilled to see your pick of the week.