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Custom-made but Mass-produced
In rich countries population shrinkage seems a bigger issue than growth. Yet globally, housing shortage will be a main problem for decades to come. Vast urbanizations in developed, developing and under-development economies have one common denominator: an immediate need for quality housing. Housing the billions: never before were those involved in architecture and construction confronted with such a challenge. A one-fits-all solution seems unthinkable since most mass housing schemes in the past failed and originated in dictatorship or total absence of power. Based on an analysis of one of the housing experiments of the past, the Soviet Microrayon, Volume proposes a new prototype. A housing block, which is custom-made but mass-produced and conceived via open source standards.

With contributions by
Arjen Oosterman, Simon Pennec, Bart Goldhoorn, Michael Wolf, François Blanciak, Alex Sverdlov, Anya Bronovichkaya, Nikita Khrushchev, Dimitrij Zadorin, Aleksei Naroditski, John Howard / Ron Smith / Tom Frame, Maria Lewicka / Katarzyna Zaborska, Ines Weizman, Henry Ng, Theo Deutinger, Bert de Muynck, Rob Dettingmeijer, Supersudaca, Pi de Bruijn, Leslie Kavanaugh, Isa Andreu, Dirk van den Heuvel, James C. Scott and Partizan Publik.

Including supplements
Mass Housing Guide
Superdudaca Reports #1
Microrayon Living

Online Articles:
Blockbuster (editorial) - Arjen Oosterman
From Big Boxes to Little Boxes - Supersudaca (Mario Marchant)
Mass Housing Guide: Hanoi - Henry Ng / Simon Pennec
Standards, Classes, Formats - Bart Goldhoorn
Industrialized Building Speech, 1954 - Nikita Khrushchev (for the first time in English)

This issue was conceived in collaboration with the IABR and kindly supported by the Netherlands Architecture Fund.

		Volume #20: Launch Party, New York
		Indian Summer in New York, what else can one ask for? Indeed, Volume 20: Storytelling. The launch party at Studio X brought many and even a few Dutch to Varick Street. The event celebrated the release of the 20th issue, amazing fact for all involved. Founding father Mark Wigley reflected on the systematic provisional character of Volume as project and publication, which makes every issue an adventure. On the theme itself he both warned and invited those present that story telling is at the core of the profession. The warning was to ‘never to trust a storyteller on his word’, the invitation that this ‘weak’ aspect of storytelling is actually the stronger trump the architect has: to unite and connect what is fragmented and unrelated, to propose coherence and added intelligence where entropy reigns. It took a few drinks to swallow the message. - Arjen Oosterman Volume #20: Storytelling Available Now This Volume is a project by ARCHIS + AMO + C-LAB This past year numerous dramas have competed for our attention: sub-prime mortgages, banking meltdown, bailout, stimulus, pandemic, bankruptcy. The all-consuming effort to follow these events seldom leaves a moment to contemplate the explanations themselves. What is the stated dilemma, context or motive for any one of these problems? And most importantly, how does a problem’s formulation determine its proposed solution? Volume 20 is dedicated to the art of storytelling. It presents the storylines of current events and architecture to show that while the truth is important, so is the ability of fiction to elevate fact. Perhaps the best way to understand our era is through narratives that distort, pervert and animate reality? With contributions by Jeffrey Inaba, Neil Denari, Joseph Tainter, Janette Kim and Erik Carver, Deane Simpson, Tom McCarthy, John McMorrough, Robert McLeman, Smiljan Radic (Arch) and Gonzalo Puga (Photo), Geoff Manaugh, Nato Thompson, Andrew Oswald, Roger Dean, Catherine Hardwicke, Dave McKean, Christopher A. Scott, Stephanie von Stein, Jiang Jun, Bjarke Ingels, Lucia Allais, Nicholas Lemann, Jay Rosen, Lewis H. Lapham. Including Warren Special Report: From Crisis to Project Online Articles: Storytelling (editorial) - Jeffrey Inaba Design for the Apocalypse - John McMorrough Foreclosed Homes - Geoff Manaugh Fact and Friction - Jay Rosen interviewed by Jeffrey Inaba and Talene Montgomery Volume 20 was conceived and edited by C-Lab.

		Here as the Centre of the World
		A new release from Archis Publishers ‘Here as the Centre of the World ’ documents a transnational artistic research project that took place in six cities worldwide: Beirut, Damascus, Diyarbakir, Enschede, Khartoum and Taipei. It reports and reflects on the real conditions in which cultural differences were articulated in the day-to day activities of the 75 participant artists. The book takes the project as a departure point for further reflection by artists, writers, theorists and cultural producers. With contributions by Lilet Breddels, Lucy Cotter, Tony Chakar, Pascale Feghali, Rana Hamadeh, Ozkan Gölpinar, John Heymans, Erwin Jans, Khaled Khalifa, Bechara Malkoun, Rania Mamoun, Susannah Mira, Kawa Nemir, Alite Thijsen, Jerlian Tsao, Emily Williams, and Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan. A new release from Archis Publishers. Initiated by The DAI/ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and edited by Lucy Cotter, Gabriëlle Schleijpen and Alite Thijsen.

		Al Manakh: now on Twitter
		Al Manakh is reaching out. On top of our prolific blog, we have recently expanded our online presence to include Twitter. Follow @AlManakh for project updates and news from the Gulf; or use it to get in touch and help shape the forthcoming publication by contributing your feedback, opinions, images and insider gossip. Al Manakh is a special edition of VOLUME magazine by ARCHIS, OMA/AMO, Pink Tank and NAi. Forthcoming in 2010. Endorsed by the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council. @AlManakh on Twitter and almanakh.org the blog.

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		GET A SUBSCRIPTION at Bruil & van de Staaij at the following rates: 4 issues: EUR 75.00 - Netherlands EUR 91.00 - Worldwide Students 20 % off !! (Enclose a copy or scan of your "student ID") (for a group discount e-mail to info@archis.org) SINGLE ISSUES can be ordered here BACK ISSUES of Archis and Volume can be ordered here SHOPS Volume works with Idea Books to make it available worldwide. To locate a retailer near you, contact: Idea Books, Amsterdam T: +31.20.622.6154 F: +31.20.620.9299 E: idea@ideabooks.nl W: www.ideabooks.nl NEWSSTANDS For the distribution to newsstands in Europe contact IPS: IPS Pressevertrieb GmbH T: +49 2225 8801 182 F: +49 2225 8801 199 E: lstulin@ips-pressevertrieb.de W: www.IPS-Pressevertrieb.de

	5 October 2009 \| In this Newsletter:
	\| Volume #21: The Block
	\| Volume #20: Launch Party, New York
	\| Here as the Centre of the World
	\| Al Manakh: Now on Twitter
	\| Archis is Moving
	\| Get Volume Now!

		Archis is Moving
		After 3 years at the Hamerstraat HQ, Archis is now knee-deep in boxes and brown tape preparing to move into the newly founded pulsating creative hub of the Tolhuistuin. We ’ll be in the Staal Villa − part of the former Shell complex in Amsterdam Noord − alongside a fantastic mix of young creative cultural practitioners. New location in Google maps. Please note our postal address for all correspondence will remain the same: Archis PO Box 14702, 1001 LE Amsterdam


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