Archinect - Features

Cross-Talk: 'a Brick and a Bull' by Sofia Blanco Santos

2017-05-26T12:11:00-04:00

Architects are collectors. Collectors of different images, objects, ideas and other architectures. What we collect, and how we decide to put the different parts of this collection together, ultimately constitutes the architectures we make.

Cross-Talk: 'Between Architecture and People' by Caio Barboza

2017-05-25T12:10:00-04:00

Flexibility is the new f-word… PC is the face of contemporary architecture… and it adapts to people’s needs: stories of a promising 21st century for the discipline now subjugated to solidarity and justice.

Cross-Talk: 'Reflections of Agonist Reflections' by Eliyahu Keller

2017-05-24T12:10:00-04:00

The definition provided by Wikipedia for ‘agonism’ puts an emphasis on the legitimacy of struggle, on its “permanent place”, and less on the outcome of the conflict. With this—and not to say by any means that all struggles are valid—the point is still quite clear. It is the struggle that matters, not the result. It is the activity that counts, not where it leads. It is, as we tell children who lose a ball game, all about participation; it’s about moving, staying fit, agile; it’s about always being in flux.

Cross-Talk: 'The Agonist' by Clemens Finkelstein

2017-05-23T12:23:00-04:00

A(nta)gonistic—a fragile web composed of the agonist, antagonist, and anti-agonist—is how the contemporary struggle unfolds in architectural discourse: an interrelated mess of pretension shooting bursts of polemic observations and sadomasochistic exposure, bouncing from media-outlet to media-outlet till incoherently strung shibboleths and their comments ooze through touchscreens and keyboards in an attempt to incite debate, leaving fingers sticky.

Introducing Archinect's New Critical Debate Forum 'Cross-Talk'

2017-05-22T14:09:00-04:00

The last four-plus decades have seen formidable developments in the discipline of architectural history and theory. This prolific production was disseminated publicly primarily through text-based mediums such as Oppositions, Log and Assemblage—among countless others. But now, the emergence of new media and platforms have dramatically changed the form and pace with which architectural ideas are transmitted. The slow pace of traditional text-centric publishing appears to be losing ground to the rapid production and transmission of images. Can text catch up with the image?