Faktur is a journal that celebrates research as the source of architectural imagination. Faktur responds to the concerns of an emerging generation of architects, and aims to bridge the distance between practice and academic scholarship. Faktur is interested in new and innovative methods for presenting and discussing architecture that understand academic and non-academic research as a crucial precondition to developing critical, contemporary projects.
This issue features...
Editorial, “Hiatus”
“Unspoken and Overheard: Archives, Accounts, and Acts at the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia”, Eric Höweler
“Real Estate Bubble Architecture: On the Complicity Between Design and Real Estate”, Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco
“A Kitchen Is Not A Refrigerator”, Ben Goldner & Emma Leigh Macdonald
“Log-in Labor, Log-in Leisure“, Alessandro Orsini & Nick Roseboro
“Continuity and Change: Consideration of Urban Littoral Ecology”, Magdalena Haggärde and Gisle Løkken
Reviews: Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt, Ed., “Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality,” by Daphne Bakker; Ana María León, “Modernity for the Masses. Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires,” by Florencia Alvarez Pacheco; Daniel Barber, “Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning,” by André Tavares; Smiljan Radic, “Obra Gruesa,” by Matthew Kennedy.
Faktur is a journal that celebrates research as the source of architectural imagination. Faktur responds to the concerns of an emerging generation of architects, and aims to bridge the distance between practice and academic scholarship. Faktur is interested in new and innovative methods for presenting and discussing architecture that understand academic and non-academic research as a crucial precondition to developing critical, contemporary projects.
This issue features...
Editorial, “Hiatus”
“Unspoken and Overheard: Archives, Accounts, and Acts at the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia”, Eric Höweler
“Real Estate Bubble Architecture: On the Complicity Between Design and Real Estate”, Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco
“A Kitchen Is Not A Refrigerator”, Ben Goldner & Emma Leigh Macdonald
“Log-in Labor, Log-in Leisure“, Alessandro Orsini & Nick Roseboro
“Continuity and Change: Consideration of Urban Littoral Ecology”, Magdalena Haggärde and Gisle Løkken
Reviews: Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt, Ed., “Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality,” by Daphne Bakker; Ana María León, “Modernity for the Masses. Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires,” by Florencia Alvarez Pacheco; Daniel Barber, “Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning,” by André Tavares; Smiljan Radic, “Obra Gruesa,” by Matthew Kennedy.
