2024-04-28T00:28:44-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/55989455/what-about-it-part-2-goes-online croixe 2012-08-26T12:24:00-04:00 >2012-08-26T20:54:13-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0y/0ycwd7vt7b08985a.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> <strong>What About It? Part 2 </strong>is now available online on the digital publishing platform <a href="http://issuu.com/waithinktank/docs/waizine2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ISSUU</a>.</p> <p> The second issue of the graphic narrative in magazine format created, designed, edited, and written by&nbsp; <a href="http://waithinktank.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WAI Architecture Think Tank i</a>ncludes essays,&nbsp;Manifestoes, Projects, Collages and a series of Conversations with: <a href="http://simonarota.es/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Simona Rota</a> (Madrid); <a href="http://standardarchitecture.cn/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Zhang Ke / standardarchitecture</a> (Beijing); <a href="http://www.monu-magazine.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bernd Upmeyer / MONU</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; (Rotterdam); and <a href="http://waithinktank.com/2012/07/26/drawing-architecture-a-conversation-with-perry-kulper/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Perry Kulper&nbsp;</a> (Michigan).</p> <p> <strong>Manifesto of the WAIzine:</strong></p> <p> The WAIzine switches rhythm and pace, focus and aim, strategy and method. It goes from pure research, to retroactive manifesto, to speculative provocation. It is ambitious like architecture should be, especially these days of philosophical uncertainty, intellectual laissez faire, economic restraints, and social deterioration.<br><br> Rejecting the role of mere spectators of the global spectacle that has been set up by previous generations, the new generation of thinkers should be eager to embrace and confront the world with a pa...</p>