Issues

Issue 1:

Issue #1 explores ‘What is Urgent?’. Inside, you will find writings and illustrations on:

Iconic architecture – The flaneur – Mushrooms as building material – Emergency urbanism – Refugee camps – Disaster relief in Haiti – Cyberspace – Pugin’s town in 2040 – Edinburgh’s built future – Architects and planners – Sustainable architecture in Iran – Life in boxes – The Badjao tribe – The housing crisis – Bursting the architectural bubble – Urgent thought – Ghosts – Feminism – Anthropocene armageddon in Venice and Yinchuan and more.

Contributors: Sophie Pipe, Angus Henderson, Roger Emmerson, Peter Wilson, Emeline Beroud, Rory Lamb, Joanna Spreadbury, Theodore Shack, Vsevolod Yurchenko, Calum Anderson, Will Tooze, Dan Wood, Erin

Whalley, Asbjørn Eriknauer, Howard Barugahare, Caitlin Macleod, Miranda Smith, Holly Baker, Sofia Paredes, Jessica Bonehill, Lilian Lee, Hannah Kelly, Michael Drax, Gregor Henderson, Yasser Khaldi, Cécile Ngọc Sương Perdu.

Issue 2:

Issue #2 asks ‘What’s the Plan?’. Inside you will find both solutions to problems raised in issue 1 and various new writings and illustrations on:

Plans – Castle conservation – Gentrification vs. Immigration – Memories – Planning beyond streets – Regeneration in Sheffield – Exposing Eileen Gray – Housing in Hong Kong – Self-Healing Concrete – The EU – Benefiting from Brutalism – Egyptian capitals – Resilience in Palestine – Drawing and drafting plans – Outer space and more.

Contributors: Liam Rotheram, Jack Handscombe, Cécile Ngọc Sương Perdu, Noah Judge, Gregor Henderson, Frederica Giardino, Indigo Lowndes, Angus Henderson, Theodore Shack, Holly Baker, Megan Ellis, Erin Whalley, Sophie Pipe, Jo Russmann, Evelyn Wong, Sophia Constantinou, Will Tooze, Dan Wood, Daniel Anderson, Eleanor Cook, John Rattray, Nadim Jacquemond, Will Hughes, Yasser Khaldi, Nguyen Chau Anh, Neil Cunning, Rowan Mackinnon-Pryde, Aaron Chan, Maria Sara Tan, Sarah Betts, Andrea Ma, Beck Tait.

Issue 3:

Issue #3 ‘Conflict/Resolution’ is an exciting departure from our previous two themes, with a new team on board. Inside you will find articles, poems, interviews and illustrations on:

Northern Ireland’s Peace walls – Nuclear Deterrents – Immigration policies – Decolonising Western Cities – Conservation in Monticello – Heritage in Nigeria – Rwandan Reconciliation – UCU strikes – Building in Bangladore – Japanese samurai tradition – Adventure playgrounds – Homelessness in London – Forensic architecture – Designing for Refugees – Revolution in Portugal – Play and more.

Contributors: Hannah Penwarden, Katie-May Munro, Megan Kenyon, Alex Abadjieva, Carrie Tench, Liam Rotheram, Aaron Chan, Ciaran Murphy, Ellie Edmond, Alice King, Sarah Kemali, Zubaydah Jibrilu, Cecile Ngoc Suong Perdu, Callum Henderson, Gregor Henderson, Ivy Pottinger-Glass, Chloe Pottinger-Glass, Rana Tabatabaie, Kome Eleyae, Oriel Agranoff, Emma Henderson, Angus Barrett, Katrina McCall, Rose Miller, Honor Bathurst, Neil Cunning, Will Tooze, Antonia Weir, Theodore Shack, Angus Henderson.

Issue 4:

Issue #4 “Are We Sitting Comfortably?” creates a conversation at a range of scales with an intense focus on the human. It asks it’s readers to find a comfortable seat before preparing themselves to question themselves and consider if we really should be sitting comfortably? Contained within its pages are articles, poems, and illustrations on:

Public Seating – Complacent Architects – Home Comforts – Striving for Selfie Backdrops – People Make Places – Children’s Hospitals – Feminist Free Space – Politics of Door Handles – Women’s Reproductive Rights – Cooking Rituals – Archaeological Excavation for Architectural Evolution – The Necessity of Discomfort – A Love Letter To A Toilet – Mental Health – Poems, interviews and more.

Contributors: Nadim Jacquemond, Alex Zawalnyski, Kome Eleyae, Isaac Lassey, Tabby Carless-Frost, Scott Szpisjak, Angus Stewart, Cameron Boyd, Jago Trelawny-Vernon, Ben Hair, Cecile Ngoc Suong Perdu, Myrto Efthymiadi, Sarah Kemali, Rose Miller, Lucia Medina Uriarte, Ellie Edmond, Frances Driscoll, Harriet Garbutt, Frances Driscoll, Harriet Garbutt, Stef Dempster, Holly Goodwin, Callum Symmons, Imogen Herd, Theodore Shack, Carrie Tench, Sophie Burgess, Bethan Jones, Holly Goodwin, Megan Kenyon, Sarah Kemali, Jamie Begg, Aron Shelemy.

Issue 5:

Issue #5 ‘Moment, Movement’, our current issue, arrived autumn 2020 into a pre-covid world, its content blissfully oblivious to the events that have altered our recent history. The conversations that lie within delve from both the meaning of a moment to the weight of a movement and what lies between. From reflections on places of passing, discussion on what it means to be home and questions of what it means to act, ‘Moment, Movement’ touches on urgency, content, speculation and desire. These varied discussions, stories and articles are an embrace of what we have and a question of what we should challenge.

Urban Culture in Moscow – Re-imagining the Metrolink – Stories of our Shapes – Architectural Education in the Climate Crisis – Architects as Activists – The Necessity of Discourse – Parisian Counter Culture – Stepping up Accessibility – A living room confronts the Climate Crisis – Movement is a privilege – Places of passing – The power of a Home – Intergenerational experiences of the London Underground – Architecture of Obedience – Poems and more...

Contributors: Silas Lehane, Cecile Ngoc Suong Perdu, Danny Gregson, Michael Becker, Karolina Krajcikova, Scott McAulay, Lockie Mitchell, Murid, Laly, Astrid Larsen, Callum Symmons, Tayyeb Jilani, Roseanne Tye, Guillemette Gandon, Eleanor Collin, Tabby Carless-Frost, Fraser Morrison, Ellie Shimmin, Ben Hair, Daniel Anderson, Carlos Tedosa Tejetor, Alex Abadjieva, Angus Barrett, Lucy Galloway, Megan Kenyon, Justin Leung, Cameron Lintott, Sonnie Carlebach.

Issue 6:

Issue #6 “Rules of Play” has once again let us slow down, escape, listen and talk about what is important, the product of these conversations allows an exploration of what really are the rules of play. Contained within its pages are articles, poems, and illustrations on:

Downtown Divertissement – Deviation- Alasdair Gray’s Lanark – Move 37 – Insurgent Architecture – Body-more Murdaland – Eyes On – The Architecture of Patriarchy – Risk in Play – Bleeding Permeability – Young Citizen Survey – Kitchen Crumbs – Displacement in Signage – Riding the Pink Lane – Extract from a dialogue concerning the companions of Lawrence Oswald – Nocturnal Playtime- Right to Space – Memory Landscapes – In Orbit – One step after another...

Contributors: Frances Driscoll, Tayyeb Jilani, Olivia Hingley, Michelle Wang, Felix Wilson, Sarah Kemali, Matilda Taylor, Miharu Yamaguchi, Michael Becker, Alex Abadjieva, Hohgun Choi, Lenka Hanulova, Karolina Krajcikova, Eleanor Collin, Jonna Idsater, Lucia Olavari, Sara Sako, Silja Glomb, Laura Haylock, Millie Riddle, Kitty O’Loan, Daniel Gregson, Carley Wootton, Cecile Ngoc Suong Perdu, Sonnie Carlebach, Jemima Brakspear, Abrisham Ahmadzadeh, Theodore Shack.

Issue 7:

Issue #7 “How Are We Looking?” casts our eyes beyond attitudes of optical supremacy, inviting one to consider that which we do not see. The content foregoes the inauguration of the question, how are we looking, instead presenting a dynamic twist to what was asked. These pages contain moments, thoughts, translations of ideas, in an attempt to probe, read and engage the unknown, beyond the mundane, engaging our imaginations.

The Gender Lens – only a fence, a line that runs - On the Other Side – Rachel Kneebone – Windowless homes – Untitled – An Ichnographic Ode – Looking through / past / over the elephant in the room – How is Your Window Looking? – Condition – The Room for Art – Learning From Alternative Use – How to Post a Selfie on Instagram – The Spirit of the Stairs – Blank 2 – How are We Looking? - Architecture as a picture – The Experimental Gap – Untitled – Using Poetry to Inspire Novel Perspectives – To Look: Kinning Park Complex – Tools of Liberation – Insert: Madusa Machine.

Contributors: Kirsty Watt, Michelle Wang, Shivangi Mariam Raj, Anna Bonsignorio, Tobias Korner, Kitty O’Loan, Eleanor Collin, Aner Wang, Lizzy Dixon, Jaya Modi, Ziyan Wu, Dan Anderson, Michael Kan, Jade Wu, Miharu Yamaguchi, Hohgun Choi, Cosmo Wezenbeek, Ephra Charlton Hutchinson, Sophie Nardi-Bart, Carley Wooton, Mariam Tovmasyan, Nelly Greig, Chloe Briggs, Hannah Udall, Samuel Stair, Alexandre Langlois, Andy Summers, Michael Mecker, Sonnie Carlebach.

Issue 8:

Issue #8 ‘Bending out of Shape’ sheds light on the notions of power and control, it pushes boundaries and focuses on the now. The ‘bending’ action itself is explored, rather than speculating a metaphorical shape which was ‘bent’ in the past. The content in the pages of this issue scrutinises the rhythms and choreographies that dictate our day-to-day lives and what is the norm.

Budapest Fragments – Surveillance and the Digital Voyeur – Hinges – The Fridge – Blood on Your Hands – I am Happy Unless Wonky – How to Break the Map – No Time to Waste – The New Soviet Man in a Post-Soviet Landscape – The Dominion Dance – Thesaurus for Change – Are You Suited to Co-Housing? – Five Psychogeographical Experiments to See the City Anew – Everything at Shoulder Height – Where Did You Learn to Imagine? – The winds of Change – High Street II.

Contributors: Devon Tabata, Wijdane Esseffah, Anner Wang, Maisie Wills, Johanna Hedenskog, Yutong Lu, Nirali Bhatt-Roberts, Anna Bonsignorio, Phoebe Vendil, Tom Sterling, Yeon-Kyu Lee, Julia Twardzisz, Laurie Shaw, Liga Ramata, Reishin Kunishima Watabe, The Architectural Foundation Young Trustees, Imagine If. Space CIC, Neil Scott, Mariam Tovasian, Carley Wootton, Michelle Wang, Hannah Bendon, Amy Lau, Olivia Juett, Tom Matthews.

Issue 9:

Issue #9 ‘Unsettled’ brings together many independent voices, becoming a palimpsest of overlapping thoughts and opinions. Its theme begs us to digest complex and painful narratives, allowing us to feel on edge and embrace the sense of being ‘unsettled’. Contained within its pages are articles, poems, and illustrations on:

Reclaiming the City, One Squat Part at a Time – Framing Landscapes: the Construction of Conservation – Spolia as a Contemporary Act – Street Haunters – Architecture Beyond Capitalism – My People are in Danger – Regrounding – Paternoster – Unsettled Landscapes of Salt Fields – Monument – Revolutionary Architectural Inventions in Italy’s Inner Towns – Urbanography of a Multilayered Post-War Neighbourhood – An Ode to Unsettled Planning – Here Be Dragons – Encounters in Fringes.

Contributors: Miranda Shutler, Aspen Cheung, Leela Keshav, Abdulrahman Alsuraya, Gus Wray, Nelly Greig, Anastasia Petrarchini, Julia Twardzisz, Quinthia Nsema, Gordon Cheng, Robert Snelling, Shay Miller, Douglas Crammond, Alper Al, Harry Baldwin, Caleb Lightfoot, Aakash Dave, Victoria Pearce, Bella Fane, Eva Voulgaridou, Lola Turner, Oscar Nolan, Mila Kostovic, Chenyi Xu.

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