Angus Hardwick argues for a more rigorous and holistic approach to appraising architecture, that might encompass qualitative feedback from users and other stakeholders. He discusses a possible methodology for this, using Candalepas Associates’s All Saints Grammar School BER project as a case study.
The way we edit architecture in the mainstream print media limits the possibilities of critique and conditions our value systems. This essay will explain why, and suggest an alternative position put forth by us, the editors of POST Magazine.
Eleanor Chapman explores the culture of alternative spatial practice in Berlin, how practitioners have responded to its changing economic context, and their influence on or resistance to new urban development.
Cristina Ampatzidou & Ania Molenda look at desk space – the minimum rental unit in post-industrial office spaces and warehouses – as a starting point to tell the stories of these buildings and the co-habitations they house.
Architecture’s failure to satisfy new human behaviors has drawn individuals to places free of familiarity in order to manifest their sublimated desires, seeking not nature or its memory, but that of the industrial, waste and construction sites to engage our imagination. These minimal zones are the new public spaces of tomorrow, writes Kurt Franz.
Public outcry as Urbicon announces whopping 500 metre-long ‘luxury’ apartments across Thames in Greenwich Power Station redevelopment, reigniting debate over foreign property [more]
Interim Use: Interview with Christof Mayer and Andreas Krauth of raumlaborberlin
Raumlaborberlin is a collective of eight architects working to transform urban spaces through playful, political, and participatory interventions. Their experimental projects open [more]
Sleeping Is No Mean Art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Steven Chodoriwsky's narrative surrounds 24 hour occupation of an office building that is ill-equipped for the prospective sleeper.
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Considering Primary Schooling: Tactics for Understanding a Project
Angus Hardwick argues for a more rigorous and holistic approach to appraising architecture, that might encompass qualitative feedback from users and other stakeholders. He discusses [more]
The way we edit architecture in the mainstream print media limits the possibilities of critique and conditions our value systems. This essay will explain why, and suggest an [more]
Eleanor Chapman explores the culture of alternative spatial practice in Berlin, how practitioners have responded to its changing economic context, and their influence on or [more]
Interim Use: Interview with Marcus Westbury
Marcus Westbury is a self-taught urbanist, prolific festival director, and writer. He is also the founder of Renew Newcastle, a not-for-profit organisation that he established in [more]
Post Post Occupancy: A Monument's Afterlife
Joseph Altshuler reflects on alternative approaches to the death and commemoration of iconic buildings. [more]
Lisa Hirmer travels across Canada, documenting the ways in which "insertions" are made in existing spaces. [more]
