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Volume #9

If a crisis is imminent, we need strong policies to cope with it. If the world is facing a crisis of debt, a crisis of truth, a crisis of sprawl and a crisis of purpose, what can design do? This issue of Volume is your survival kit to take responsability and curb the lie that gives a dream to the millions but will be their predicament when they really need a home.


Truth or suburbia (editorial part I) – Ole Bouman
Scenarios of Doom
Grey Goo as Condition
Monument or Armageddon (editorial part II) – Alexander D’HoogheFEDERAL REPORT
by Alexander D’Hooghe, Tim Campos, Neeraj Bhhatia, and many othersLearning from Late Modernism - Joseph Lluis Sert, Ernst Cassirer, Sigfried Giedion, Louis Kahn and Fumihiko Maki
A Theory of the New Monumentality: From Crisis to Project – Alexander D’Hooghe
An Antipragmatic Manifesto - Mark Jarzombek
Research MIT Love - Yung Ho Chang

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About this issue:
"Two years ago, with extraordinary foresightedness, the Dutch architecture magazine Volume dedicated a whole issue to a probable subprime mortgage crisis and predicted the implosion of the speculative system connected to it, foretelling a not entirely pessimistic future where existenz minimum makes a comeback as a huge subject of design exploration, all the way down to its intimate economic and financial nitty-gritty.'
-Domus 912, march 2008

Suburbia after the Crash - MIT Urban Design Studio

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