We want to move beyond thinking of architecture as an object. Architecture is not separate from us - it is not something to be judged merely by its formal properties, its satisfaction of programmatic concerns or its performance in terms of technical parameters. We are not dismissing the importance of these factors but wish to enrich them, to understand and articulate how architecture can capture and express unseen layers of meaning and purpose.
We want to think of architecture as a verb, a mover, a shaper, an active agent in human flourishing. In order to appreciate the potential power of architecture we want to explore the experience of architecture, and the intimately related experience of making architecture. Turning our attention to experience requires that we listen to and consider knowledge from a full array of disciplines. Experience is multi-dimensional, multi-directional, irreducible. Experience always supersedes, flows over any boundary that attempts to circumscribe it.
MANIFESTO: INTERTWINING
WEAVING/BODY/CONTEXT - Letter from the Editors
EXCERPT FROM TRANSCENDENTAL ETUDE - Adrienne Rich, 1977
BALKRISHNA DOSHI WORKS - Meghal Arya
THE INTERFACE OF TWO CULTURES - Harry F. Mallgrave and Sergei Gepshtein
TIM INGOLD INTERVIEW - Sarah Robinson and Davide Ruzzon
A BREATHING BODY - Mercado Libertad, San Juan de Dios in Guadalajara, Mexico - Klaske Havik
LILLE SAINT-SAUVEUR, MAKING A PIECE OF CITY - David Sim
MEMORY AND THE CITY - Alberto Ferlenga
SERENDIPITOUS EVENTS IN PLACE: The Weave of Bodies and Context via Environmental Unexpectedness and Chance - David Seamon
PIXELATED FACES & EXPRESSIVE SPACE - Sarah Robinson
EVERYDAY SPACE(S); ANYTIME, EVERYWHERE - Isabella Pasqualini
SIGURD LEWERENTZ: (THE DISCIPLINE OF) ARCHITECTURE AS CONTEXT - Enrico Miglietta and Gennaro Postiglione
INTERACTION IN REAL AND VIRTUAL CONTEXTS - Shaun Gallagher
THE EMPATHIC SCREEN. CINEMA AND NEUROSCIENCE: A Review of Vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra - Alessandro Gattara
IN PRAISE OF LIVED ARCHITECTURAL ENCOUNTER - Marcus Weisen
