FAKTUR 01

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. We seek to present topics, locations, and architectural concerns that function as micro-narratives that illuminate larger issues of global culture. We are interested in the construction of material arguments from local perspectives, linking them to long-durée historical threads within architecture on the one hand, and current political, economic, and cultural concerns on the other. Finally, we are interested in how these investigations affect, inform, or influence the design processes of contemporary architectural practices.

FALL 2022

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.