Celebrating 10 years of e-flux Architecture

e-flux Architecture grew out of a series of experiments in bringing more critical and theoretical writing into architectural discourse. In 2015, Nikolaus Hirsch guest-edited two special issues of e-flux journal, titled “Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure.” These issues explored architecture beyond the design and construction of buildings, considering the social, political, economic, and technological forces that shape our built environment.

At a time when much of architectural publishing focused on images of buildings and their appearance, the idea was to create a space for a different kind of engagement with architecture, one that could bring together practitioners, theorists, artists, and researchers from different disciplines and geographies.

An opportunity to develop this approach into a new publication came in 2016 through an invitation from Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, curators of the Third Istanbul Design Biennial. Founded by Nikolaus Hirsch and Anton Vidokle, with Nick Axel as Deputy Editor, e-flux Architecture launched with Superhumanity, a publishing project that brought together more than fifty international contributors to examine the relationship between design and the human.

Over the following decade, e-flux Architecture has developed more than seventy editorial projects in collaboration with architecture schools, biennials, museums, and other institutions around the world, publishing more than one thousand essays by architects, practitioners, historians, and theorists. All of this material remains freely accessible on the e-flux website, forming an extensive and continuously growing archive of contemporary architectural thought.

Organized in collaboration with Columbia GSAPP, this conference brings together contributors and collaborators from the past decade to reflect on the development of e-flux Architecture, the transformations of architectural discourse over this period, and the questions facing architecture and its institutions today.

The event is organized by Nick Axel and Nikolaus Hirsch (e-flux Architecture); Jean Im, Dean Andrés Jaque, and Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP).

Participants include Emanuel Admassu (GSAPP, AD-WO), Lucia Allais (GSAPP), Nick Axel (e-flux), Erin Besler (Princeton), Beatriz Colomina (Princeton), Peggy Deamer (Yale), Keller Easterling (Yale), David Gissen (Yale), Catherine Griffiths(GSAPP), Brooke Holmes (Princeton), Nahyun Hwang (GSAPP, NHDM), Lydia Kallipoliti (GSAPP), Ateya Khorakiwala (GSAPP), Laura Kurgan (GSAPP), Sylvia Lavin (Princeton), Iván López Munuera (Bard), Mae-Ling Lokko (Yale), Reinhold Martin (GSAPP), David Eugin Moon (UPenn, NHDM), Amelyn Ng (GSAPP), Jorge Otero-Pailos (GSAPP), Spyros Papapetros (Princeton), Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Columbia), Enrique Ramirez (Pratt), Hilary Sample (GSAPP), Felicity Scott (GSAPP), Meredith TenHoor (Pratt), Julia Van Den Hout (Art Omi), Anton Vidokle (e-flux), Mark Wasiuta (GSAPP), Mark Wigley (GSAPP), and Mabel Wilson (GSAPP, AAADS).