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| Volume 6: The Architecture of Power, Part 2 |
Power Building The previous issue of this magazine explored how 'Power is in the Details'. In this issue we are widening our perspective and focusing on buildings and building schemes. Meanwhile people keep asking us questions... Frequently asked: Why has this magazine become unreadable, with either too much or too little text? Why does this magazine change so often? Why isn’t this magazine about true architecture anymore? Why is this magazine not updating me with vital architectural information? Why isn’t this magazine available in my local bookstore? Why is this magazine only in English? Answer: Because this magazine deals with power, and power is changing architecture as we know it, as well as architecture’s media and distribution channels. Rarely asked: Why do you always connect architecture to larger social and cultural issues? Why do you print subjective photography that goes beyond the objective registration of facts? Why are your texts always so suggestive and discursive? Why do you carry on with this if the professionals have started to hate you? Why do you believe in humor as a means to understand the world? Why do thinkers from Iran and Mexico subscribe to your magazine while you lose subscriptions in your home markets? Why are you progressively using the Internet to pursue your research? Answer: Because we deal with power, and power can only be addressed and challenged by transgressing set scripts. Very very rarely asked: You have been advocating the hope to go beyond architecture for a full year now to do almost nothing; to start broadcasting rather than building architecture; to socialize and share; to address power directly. But are we soon going to see some tangible results of this advocacy? Can architecture become a true cultural force capable of breaking through the status quo? Are architects responsible for the enslavement of their discipline? Should an architect be asked to play any other role in society than that of designer? Is this magazine an advocate of this belief? Will your magazine ever be viable if you change your subject matter all the time? Is this magazine sold at nondescript newsstands at train stations in the German hinterland? Can we get a group discount? Can I put this magazine in my final testament? Answer: Certainly! New City Desperate Decadence Neither Desperate Nor Decadent Projects in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE New Geography The Statu(t)e of Liberty Futile Power New Living Co-opus Dei Power at the Top – Plus: Conversation with Robert Stern New Metaphysics Superchurch Palace Power New Money Power to the Client Neo-Money A Chat with the Future New History The Power of Restraint – Hermitage Chandigarh – After All These Years Dahlqvist Niemeyer For Sale New Image Architecture Gets Intense Power in Color New Effects Move That Building Sound ImMaterial Index / A Year On View
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