For an issue that was supposed to be about the past, this issue of VOLUME is awfully much about the current moment and our immediate future:
– We talk to All-Star philosopher Peter Sloterdijk about a future for religious architecture.
– With Kuba Snopek and Izabela Cichońska, we discuss effective strategies for architectural activism from communist Poland.
– The future of history writing is addressed with architecture historian and nestor Kenneth Frampton.
– With Metahaven’s Daniel van der Velden we look at the agency of cover designs as input for the next iteration of VOLUME
– Wytze Patijn reflects on the ‘cauliflower’ neighbourhoods in Holland, which due their omnipresence across the country inevitably steer the outlook of Dutch planning.
– In conversation with Hans van Dijk, the future of criticism is considered, by looking somewhat disheartened into a mirror.
– An artisanal future of the media landscape is the concern of writer Niklas Maak and internet critic and Syllabus founder Evgeny Morozov.
– Zhang Weiping re-reads Archis initial analysis of Shenzhen in 2000 and talks about how the city shaped its own future, regardless.
– The position of the architect has been and will be a driving theme for VOLUME, and has to be brought into a new alignment towards addressing climate change argues Arjen Oosterman.
– Ads by more than 40 of our design-related friends around the globe; present practices that you will be definitely reading more about in your future
