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Archinect is pleased to release Ed #2 "Architecture of Disaster"!

2018-05-21T11:00:00-04:00

After months of hard work reviewing submissions, selecting content, editing, designing and working with the best printers in the industry, we're excited to announce the second issue of Ed, "Architecture of Disaster," is now available for purchase. If you're an annual subscriber, your copy has either arrived at your doorstep or is on its way. For everyone else, you can order now, from our revamped online shop. Copies will be available at selected stockists shortly, including the soon-to-open Archinect Outpost, our experimental retail/gallery/event space in downtown LA's Arts District.

Get your copy of Ed #2 "Architecture of Disaster" here!

“The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.”

- Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster

It’s four in the morning and I can’t sleep. I keep thinking about the disaster. Which one? The storm in the Caribbean? Or the ones in the Southeast United States, India, Bangladesh, or Nepal? The earthquake in Mexico? Or Tokyo...

Get Issue #1 of Archinect's print publication 'Ed' at these fine retail partners

2018-04-09T13:43:00-04:00

It's been a few months now since we launched Archinect's latest offshoot, Ed, our quarterly print publication. Issue #1 "Architecture of Architecture" features a conversation with MAIO, a feature from Interboro Partners' new book “The Arsenal of Inclusion and Exclusion”, a special iteration of Archinect's Small Studio Snapshots series featuring Brandão Costa Arquitectos, as well as thought-provoking essays by Troy Conrad Therrien, the Feminist Architecture Collaborative, Manuel Shvartzberg-Carrío, Caitlin Blanchfield and Nina Kolowratnik with Ophelia Rivas, Jaffer Kolb, Jack Self, Giovanna Borradori, Miles Dugan, Lori Brown, Marina Otero Verzier, Scott Deisher, and Andreas Angelidakis among others.

While Ed #1 has been available globally at ed.archinect.com (get a single issue or the annual subscription for 4 issues per year), we've also been busy building relationships with local retail partners, so you can pick up a copy at your neighborhood bookshop, flip through the pages, and s...

Deadline for Ed #2 'Disaster' submissions extended until January 30

2018-01-04T12:00:00-05:00

With 2017 in the rearview mirror, Ed wanted to take stock of where we are and where we’re going. But despite our best attempts at optimism, things didn’t look so hot. Our rents are rising. The climate is getting crazy. Nuclear war seems right around the corner. It began to feel like the only thing we can depend on is our monthly student loan bill. That is, we couldn’t help but notice that we’re in the middle of a sh*tstorm.

For our second issue, Ed is trying to grapple with the seemingly widespread sense that things are bad and probably getting worse. That is, we’re trying to think about architecture and disasters: How does architecture play a role in creating disasters? How can architecture help mitigate them? Are there such things as disasters in architecture itself? What even qualifies as a disaster anyway?

Credit: KC Green

Late last year, we began accepting written submissions of around 1500-2000 (max.) words (Chicago-style citation), as well as visual and built projects, that re...

Call for Submissions now open for 'Ed' #2: Disaster!

2017-11-22T12:13:00-05:00

The last few months alone have seen cataclysmic storms devastate the Caribbean, the Southeast United States, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, while intense wildfires have scorched Southern California, the Pacific Northwest, Southern Europe, North Africa, and Central and South Africa. The effects of climate change, it would seem, are ramping up. And, alongside extreme weather, related resource-driven conflicts are multiplying across the world, from Syria to Somalia. With more than half the world’s population living in cities, a majority of which are along waterways and coastlines, built environments not designed to accommodate rising tides or other environmental crises are being tested. In short, we live in a world marked by disasters. The foundations upon which we build are shaking; the ground has been revealed as unstable. What is the role of architecture in all this? How does it contribute to disaster scenarios? How can it mitigate the effects of a warming planet?

But this climate of...