e-flux Journal #64

<p>Edited together with Nikolaus Hirsch, this first part of a special double issue of <em>e-flux journal</em> focusing on architecture invites a number of the field’s most audacious and adventurous thinkers to consider how these invisible and intangible forces are rebuilding cities and reformatting space over and above the role that architecture once served. They are not only reducible to data streams and technocratic information pathways, but also convert ethical questions of whose hands do the actual work of building into material expressions of labor markets, economic flows, and colonial memory. They include the passage from the formal domain of building to an informal domain of knowledge in research-based university departments as well as in slums, black markets, shadow networks, and courtrooms alike. How are practicing architects already working to adapt the radical propositions of architecture to build and think in a way that takes this often contradictory information into consideration?…</p> <p><b>Editorial—“Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure,” Issue One</b><br /> Nikolaus Hirsch, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>IIRS</b><br /> Keller Easterling</p> <p><b>Intangible and Concrete: Notes on Architecture and Abstraction</b><br /> Pier Vittorio Aureli</p> <p><b>Honeywell, I’m Home! The Internet of Things and the New Domestic Landscape</b><br /> Justin McGuirk</p> <p><b>Post-Postcolonial Sensory Infrastructure</b><br /> Ravi Sundaram</p> <p><b>Violence at the Threshold of Detectability</b><br /> Eyal Weizman</p> <p><b>Out of Bologna: Lacaton and Vassal’s Nantes School of Architecture</b><br /> Philip Ursprung</p> <p><b>“Vanguards”</b><br /> Felicity D. Scott</p>