Positions

A rhetorical space for claims to be made, risks to be taken, and experiments to be rigorously conducted. A platform for the most challenging, provocative, and critical texts being written in the field of architecture today.

Editors
Nick Axel
Nikolaus Hirsch
Anton Vidokle

Positions is an initiative by e-flux Architecture

11–18

Freespace, the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, Corderie dell'Arsenale, Venice, 2018. Photo: Irene Fanizza.

Alessandro Bava

This is not an exhibition

Coop Himmelblau, Astroballoon, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, February 1969. Photo: Erwin Reichman. Courtesy of Coop Himmelb(l)au Archives.

Victoria Bugge Øye

On Astroballoons and Personal Bubbles

Munashichi, Future Economic View of Innocence, 2015.

Elvia Wilk

Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime?

Junya Ishigami + Associates, House & Restaurant, Yamaguchi, Japan, 2018. Image © Junya Ishigami + Associates.

Beatrice Galilee

Freeness

Interior designs from a generative adversarial network (GAN). Image: Ian Goodfellow, 2018.

Alessandro Bava

Habitable Art

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Effects of Good Government in the City, 1338–1339.

Mario Carpo

Republics of Makers

Adidas Speedfactory, Ansbach, Germany. Photo: Ériver Hijano.

Víctor Muñoz Sanz

Platform Architectures

Detail from a 1938 plan of public works in Kinshasa. The zone neutre is clearly marked on the right side, separating the European quarters (above) from the African one (below). Source: Fonds Service Cartographique, 374, Archives Africaines (Brussels).

Andrea Bagnato

Microscopic Colonialism

1–10

Plan of “indigenous” housing designed by François Bienvenu. From Chantiers, no. 3 (March 1933), 267.

Samia Henni

From “Indigenous” to “Muslim”

Nicholas Korody

Mere Decorating

Mapped trees in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens as of August 25th 2017 on the NYC Street Tree Map.

Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe

The Offsetted

Photograph of the exhibition California: Designing Freedom at the Design Museum, London, 2017. Photo: Luke Hays.

Douglas Spencer

Architecture After California

The "Essenza" table, designed by Willem van Ast for Arco (1999). 18-foot-long variations of this table are featured in Apple Park, Cupertino, California, designed by Foster + Partners (2017).

Shannon Mattern

Sharing is Tables: Furniture for Digital Labor

V. Mitch McEwen

Profound Modernity

Ross Exo Adams

Becoming-Infrastructural

Image: Brian Cash, Dan Glick-Unterman, Nathan Portlock, and Miguel Sanchez-Enkerlin.

Keller Easterling

Switch

Andreas Angelidakis

Unauthorized

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Convention Hall project, Chicago, Illinois (Preliminary version: interior perspective), 1954. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art. Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.

Reinhold Martin

Pittsburgh, Paris, Charlottesville: The Infrastructure Question

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