Volume editorial
#6 – 2005
The previous issue of this magazine examined how “Power is in the Details”. This issue we widen the perspective and focus on buildings and building schemes.
Meanwhile people keep asking us questions…
Frequentty asked A few examples of the questions we receive Why has this magazine become unreadable, with either
too much or too little text? Why does this magazine change so often? Why isn’t this magazine about true architecture anymore? Why is this magazine not updating me with the necessary information? Why isn’t this magazine not available in my local bookstore? Why is this magazine only in English?
Answer Because this magazine deals with power, and power is changing architecture as we know it, as well as its media and distribution channels.
Rarely asked questions Why do you always connect architecture to larger social and cultural issues? Why do you print subjective photography that goes beyond the objective registration of facts? Why are your texts always so suggestive and discursive? Why do you carry on with this if the professionals have started to hate you? Why do you believe in humor as a means to understand the world? Why do creatives from Iran or Mexico subscribe to your magazine while you lose subscriptions in your home markets? Why do you progressively use Internet to pursue your research?
Answer Because we deal with power, and power can only be addressed and challenged by transgressing set scripts.
Very very rarely asked questions You have been propagating to go beyond architecture for a full year now: to do almost nothing; to start broadcasting rather than building architecture; to socialize and share; to address power directly. But are we soon going to see some practical results of that propaganda? Can architecture become a true cultural force capable of breaking through the status quo? Are architects responsible for the enslavement of their discipline? Should an architect be asked to play any other role in society than that of designer? Is this magazine an advocate of this belief? Will
your magazine ever be viable if you attempt to change your subject matter all the time? Is this magazine sold at undescript newsstands at train stations in the German hinterland? Can we get a group discount? Can I put this magazine in my final testament?
Answer Certainly!
Frequentty asked A few examples of the questions we receive Why has this magazine become unreadable, with either
too much or too little text? Why does this magazine change so often? Why isn’t this magazine about true architecture anymore? Why is this magazine not updating me with the necessary information? Why isn’t this magazine not available in my local bookstore? Why is this magazine only in English?
Answer Because this magazine deals with power, and power is changing architecture as we know it, as well as its media and distribution channels.
Rarely asked questions Why do you always connect architecture to larger social and cultural issues? Why do you print subjective photography that goes beyond the objective registration of facts? Why are your texts always so suggestive and discursive? Why do you carry on with this if the professionals have started to hate you? Why do you believe in humor as a means to understand the world? Why do creatives from Iran or Mexico subscribe to your magazine while you lose subscriptions in your home markets? Why do you progressively use Internet to pursue your research?
Answer Because we deal with power, and power can only be addressed and challenged by transgressing set scripts.
Very very rarely asked questions You have been propagating to go beyond architecture for a full year now: to do almost nothing; to start broadcasting rather than building architecture; to socialize and share; to address power directly. But are we soon going to see some practical results of that propaganda? Can architecture become a true cultural force capable of breaking through the status quo? Are architects responsible for the enslavement of their discipline? Should an architect be asked to play any other role in society than that of designer? Is this magazine an advocate of this belief? Will
your magazine ever be viable if you attempt to change your subject matter all the time? Is this magazine sold at undescript newsstands at train stations in the German hinterland? Can we get a group discount? Can I put this magazine in my final testament?
Answer Certainly!