What About It? Part 2 is now available online on the digital publishing platform ISSUU.

The second issue of the graphic narrative in magazine format created, designed, edited, and written by  WAI Architecture Think Tank includes essays, Manifestoes, Projects, Collages and a series of Conversations with: Simona Rota (Madrid); Zhang Ke / standardarchitecture (Beijing); Bernd Upmeyer / MONU   (Rotterdam); and Perry Kulper  (Michigan).

Manifesto of the WAIzine:

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.

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 passion that burns and assume the risk  that comes with being intellectual and being avant-garde; the risks that come with asking “What About It?”

Chief Editors:
Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia
Co-Editor:
Ronald Frankowski
Assistant Editor:
Annie Wang

Printed copies were made available in a numbered series of 100.
To order a printed limited edition copy send an email to contact@wai-architecture.com
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WAI Architecture Think Tank
WAI Architecture Think Tank is a Workshop for Architecture Intelligentsia based in Beijing. Founded by Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia in 2008, WAI asks What About It?
This interview is part of What About It? Part 2, a graphic narrative in magazine format made available in limited edition printed copies, and as a free digital resource on the internet.

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