We proudly present our 46th issue. 

Shelter is most immediately associated today with conditions of disaster, displacement and destitution. There is an inherent urgency to the word; it is first and foremost a necessity, a human right even. Yet thought of as the absolute minimum necessary to survive, shelter is an architectural stigma. Shelter is not a thing though; shelter is a verb; if there is such a thing as shelter, it is because whatever it is, shelters. Volume #46: Shelter is dedicated to the question of how shelter can be reformulated as an architectural project.

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Volume #46: Shelter
Editor in Chief: Arjen Oosterman
Designed by Irma Boom and Julia Neller
120 Pages
Soft-cover Binding
ISBN 9789077966464

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Table of Contents

Editorial
Arjen Oosterman and Nick Axel

The making of a universal human right
Abla el Bahrawy

Shelter’s Political Violence
Léopold Lambert

You can tell who they are
Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco

The New Sleep
Aristide Antonas

A Room of One’s Own
Dogma

Empire Hotel
Jack Self

Dwelling on Dwelling
Dick van Gameren interview

A Piece of England to Call One’s Own
James Taylor-Foster, Jon Lopez and Hikaru Nissanke

Practices of Decentralization
Vinay Gupta interviewed by Ben Vickers

Winter Garden City (Redux)
Martti Kalliala

Rituals of Privacy
Space Caviar

Parallel Clouds
Vere van Gool

The Language of Crypto-Architecture
Ryan John King / FOAM

Bad European
Sean Monahan & åyr

Sheltering the Rolling Society
Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation

The Human Ratio
Alexey Buldakov / Urban Fauna Lab

Endangered pieces of nature and the architecture of closed worlds
Lydia Kallipoliti

How to live in toxic environments
Nerea Calvillo

Let’s Touch
Sean Lally

The Matter of/with Skin
Benjamin H. Bratton