e-flux Journal #66

<p class="p1">More than ever, architects today are called upon to build gestural landmarks and grandiose signature buildings. But architecture was never only about building. It is also about the flows of people, information, and resources that shape space. Today, the practice of architecture often confronts situations where these flows cannot be reduced to modernist managerial approaches to systematizing, structuring, and mastering the potentials of space.</p> <p class="p1">In a two-part “Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure” issue of <em>e-flux journal</em> edited together with Nikolaus Hirsch, the intangible and immaterial flows that today appear to exceed the language of building proper are shown by a number of architects to be made not only of space, but also of information…</p> <p><b>Editorial—“Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure,” Issue Two</b><br /> Nikolaus Hirsch, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>X-Screens: Röntgen Architecture</b><br /> Beatriz Colomina</p> <p><b>Humanitarianism’s Housing Question: From Slum Reform to Digital Shelter</b><br /> Andrew Herscher</p> <p><strong>Who Builds Your Architecture?: An Advocacy Report<br /> </strong>Kadambari Baxi, Jordan Carver, Mabel O. Wilson<strong><br /> </strong></p> <p><strong>Monumentaries: Toward a Theory of the Apergon<br /> </strong>Jorge Otero-Pailos</p> <p><strong>Plan B<br /> </strong>Bernard Khoury</p> <p><strong>The Dispersal of Architecture<br /> </strong>Niklas Maak</p> <p><strong>Towards a Non-Intentional Space<br /> </strong>Hu Fang</p> <p><strong>In Conversation with Hans Hollein<br /> </strong>Hans Ulrich Obrist</p> <p><strong>A Polite Fiction<br /> </strong>Taryn Simon</p> <p><strong>Dated Talks<br /> </strong>Rem Koolhaas and Ingo Niermann</p> <p><strong>Nothing Is More Fantastic Ultimately than Precision: John Hejduk’s Berlin Tower<br /> </strong>Shumon Basar</p>