''Volume Magazine'' is a quarterly international magazine published in Amsterdam. ''Volume Magazine'' is a project b
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, New York). ''Volume'' was created as a global idea platform to voice architecture, any way, anywhere, anytime. Founded by

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in 2005, ''Volume'' is set out to be not only a magazine, but also a studio and a school. Arjen Oosterman is the current editor-in-chief of ''Volume'' while Lilet Breddels is its director. ''Volume'' is a dynamic experimental think tank devoted to the process of spatial and cultural reflexivity. It goes beyond architecture's definition of ‘making buildings’ and reaches out for global views on architecture and design, broader attitudes to social structures, and creating environments to live in. The project represents the expansion of architectural territories and the new mandate for design. Many prominent architectural practitioners have worked in ''Volumes Amsterdam office in recent years, including Nick Axel, Amelia Borg, Brendan Cormier, Rory Hyde, Timothy Moore,Timothy Moore
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History

The Volume project continues Archis, magazine for Architecture, City, and Visual Culture and its predecessors since 1929. Het Katholiek Bouwblad, Goed Wonen, Wonen/TABK, and finally Archis wanted architecture to mean something. For the religious perception, for the emancipation of the working class, for the social consciousness, for philosophy, i.e. for an ideal.

Journalistic idea

‘The art of being proactive’. Volume creates the agenda. It stands for a journalism which detects and anticipates, is proactive and even pre-emptive - a journalism which uncovers potentialities, rather than covering done deals.

References

External links

''Volume Magazine''Office for Metropolitan ArchitectureC-lab
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