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Reactivate! Innovators of Dutch Architecture
Jeroen Beekmans

‘Post-starchitecture’ is one of the terms used to describe the main theme of the recently released book Reactivate! Innovators of Dutch Architecture. Written by A10 editor-in-chief Indira van ‘t Klooster and published by Trancity/Valiz, it portrays a new generation of architects, designers and planners in the Netherlands who have left behind the urban master plans and iconic concepts, and taken a more small-scale, DIY and community-focused perspective on city-making.

Taking Sides in Italy
Luca Molinari
Volume #36: Ways to Be Critical

Italy has long been a powerhouse of architectural criticism and publications, with an intimate relationship to production. Never criticism for its own sake, the architectural publishing complex of Italy has a tradition of stance-taking, actively shaping the direction of the profession. But the glory days of Casabella and other noteworthy publications has faded, leaving a void to be filled. Luca Molinari paints a portrait of the country’s new critical landscape.
Volume #36 Preview
Jeroen Beekmans
Volume #36: Ways to Be Critical

Last week we released Volume's 36th issue, 'Ways To Be Critical', and we're proud of it! Be sure to get your hands on a copy — order the issue online (hit 'Order back issue'), or click here to find a list of bookstores around the globe that sell Volume. For all those people who can't wait to check it out, we've compiled a preview of Volume #36.

Move That Body!
Arjen Oosterman
Volume #36: Ways to Be Critical

Volume likes to think of itself as a critical magazine. Not in that it reviews and criticizes production, but in that it has a critical relation with architecture as practice and as notion. No problem up to now. Different worlds, different attitudes, the twain shall never meet, and they lived apart happily ever after…
Out Now: Volume #36!
Jeroen Beekmans
Volume #36: Ways to Be Critical

The critic is dead. Long live the network! So it goes in our world of diffuse and shared knowledge. But if criticism has evolved into criticisms, how can we interpret and learn from the babble of opinions? This dilemma comes in tandem with another: the crisis of publishing. With declining print sales and slashed subsidies, many critics are out of work. Two fundamental tasks lie ahead: reviving the productive value of criticism, and finding new profitable ways to broadcast it to the world.
Simply Happy in Houten
Arjen Oosterman

It is rare that people spend a whole day discussing their own happiness, but in Houten they did. Houten? Yes, Houten, a town of 50,000 inhabitants in the center of the Netherlands – a suburb of the city of Utrecht really, but a very successful one. During the seventies this agricultural village was planned to receive a serious portion of the additional housing needed at the time in the Netherlands and during the nineties another national housing expansion program transformed it into the town it is today. The most remarkable thing about Houten is that we don't hear about it. It never hits the news with riots, political scandals, alarming unemployment figures, vacant office buildings, or cultural clashes. It is a quiet town.
From Retrospect to Relevant
Vincent van Velsen

Since the architect-artist Luc Deleu (1944) founded T.O.P. Office in 1970, the bureau has made some thought provoking and critical contributions to the Flemish architectural landscape. Now that the office has celebrated its fortieth anniversary, Wouter Davidts, Stefaan Vervoort, and Guy Châtel found the need to bring Deleu and his office back to attention by composing a monograph. The human, urban, and global scale, as well as the concept of scale itself form the starting point of the architectural office, which could be called a research bureau more than an actual architectural practice. Building has never been its priority, because when you build something you really have to add something to the already saturated world, and not simply build just to build. The goal of the monograph is a “theoretical exploration of the work and practice of Luc Deleu and T.O.P. Office“ in which seven themes are each addressed by different written essays, a visual essay – created by fourteen different contributors – and a visual essay for every theme that was composed by Luc Deleu himself.
Archizines: The Magazine as an Art Form
Jeroen Beekmans
Volume #36: Ways to Be Critical

On Thursday July 11, the Vitra Design Museum organizes a public event where Archizines curator Elias Redstone and Archis director and Volume publisher Lilet Breddels will discuss the new culture of young and experimental architectural magazines.
Architecture Inside Out
Jeroen Beekmans

Newcastle-based graphic artist and photographer Andy Welsh has made a series of digitally manipulated photos that give new meaning to world-famous pieces of architecture.

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An Introduction to Designer Bullshit

Joop de Boer

Volume's 36th issue will shed a light on architecture criticism. While the architecture discipline is changing slightly, also the way the discipline should be criticized changes...

Volume #36: Ways to Be Critical
Economy of Likes
Jeroen Beekmans

For a feature in our upcoming issue on criticism, we're soliciting readers to send us a pair of images, of a building they like and a building they don't like, with either a thumbs up or a middle finger. Here are some of the early submissions. Check out the other photos on Facebook.

Take Photos of Your Favorite and Your Least Favorite Building and Get Published!
Jeroen Beekmans

What's your favorite building? And which building do you hate? For our upcoming issue we’re re-evaluating the role of criticism in architecture. We want you to show us which building you like and which building you dislike! Send us your photos and get published in Volume #36!
Failed Architecture #10: Beyond Failure
Jeroen Beekmans

During the season finale of Failed Architecture at De Verdieping in Amsterdam on Thursday 13 June a wide range of perspectives on the possible successes of failure, the resilience of architecture and the architect’s responsibility in a ravaged world will be discussed. Moreover, the role of architecture magazines will be explored. How does presenting and scrutinizing architecture influence how we think about cities?

Radical Locality: The Role of Architecture in a Globalizing World
Jeroen Beekmans

On Saturday 8 June at 5 PM the threefold exhibition 'Radical Locality; Actual Potential' will open at Bureau Europa in Maastricht's Timmerfabriek. With 'Radical Locality' Bureau Europa conducts from 8 June through 5 August research into the meaning of the local and the role of architecture in our globalizing world.

Get Published in Volume
Brendan Cormier

Here’s your chance to have your photographs featured in Volume. For our upcoming issue we’re re-evaluating the role of criticism in architectural production. For a feature called ‘Likes and Dislikes: The New Critical Economy’ we’re reducing ourselves to a Facebook-style crowdsourcing of likes and dislikes among Volume readers; and we’re asking for your contribution.
Hot and New in Moscow
Arjen Oosterman

We’ve seen art works changing hard objects into soft ones (soft washing basin, Claes Oldenburg) or personal and vulnerable objects into suffocating environments (teddy bear, Mike Kelley), but this is the first time as far as we know that household technology is being applied to personalize and pimp a car...
Question of the Day
Brendan Cormier
Transform: Altering the Future of Architecture
Jeroen Beekmans

If architecture was more inclusive would it also be in a stronger position? Parlour and the University of Melbourne organize 'Transform: Altering the Future of Architecture', a day-long event that brings together architectural researchers, practitioners (understood in the widest sense) and workplace experts to discuss strategies for change.

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