The much awaited 17th edition of VOLUME is out!
It should be in book stores by the end of the week… JDS’ interview will be posted up soon…but in the mean time here’s quick preview of what’s in store…

Volume 17: Content Management

Large quantities don’t faze us. We are accustomed to profits in the billions; city populations, visitors, sales in the tens of millions; personalized recommendations, search results, comments by the thousands; and scientific discoveries by the hundreds. But no sooner had we felt that plenty of money, information, and possibilities were normal than we began to face a world of scarcity. Perhaps we’ll go down in history as those who witnessed the arrival of an era of unlimited availability only to contend with massive shortfalls. Resources of all kinds are said to be dwindling: the sudden loss in assets, equity, and funding; the decreasing availability of non-renewable fuels; and the slowing output of the global food supply chain. It’s like playing poker under more favorable house rules, but with steadily disappearing cards.

At the close of this era of expansion and surplus C-Lab speculates on one of the period’s emblematic inventions: Content Management, or the collecting, organizing and sharing of digital information. Our retrospective appraisal of recent developments in the managing of information offers insight into the ability of Content Management to serve the current realities of digital abundance and material shortage, and to protect both vast and extremely limited quantities.

CHECK OUT MORE ABOUT VOLUME HERE
CHECK OUT MORE ABOUT C-LAB HERE

images and text thanx to Jesse Seegers at Volume/C-Lab

WHAT? An exhibition of projects by New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100
WHEN? October 11 – November 26
WHERE? The Urban Center,457 Madison Avenue, NY

Opening reception:
Friday, October 10
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Projects by:
Barker Freeman Design Office
Keller Easterling
Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis
Lyn Rice Architects
Multiplicities
nARCHITECTS
Normal Architecture Office
OBRA Architects
rsvp architects
SINGLE speed DESIGN
Slade Architecture
Josh Uhl/Toshiko Mori Architect
WORK Architecture Company

CHECK OUT THE JDS_ORDOS DESIGN IN THE LEFT COLUMN

MORE ON THE EXIBITION HERE

photo thanx to Dan Wood at WORK AC

Storefront for Art and Architecture NY finally reopened on Friday to show off it´s new face lift and open the white house redux competition exhibition (HERE)

check out the left column for some more party pic´s

photos thanks to Jesse Seegers at VOLUME

In January 2008 the international call for ideas “What if the White House, the ultimate architectural symbol of political power, were to be designed today?” was presented. On occasion of the election of the 44th President of the United States of America, Storefront for Art and Architecture, in association with Control Group challenged to design a new residence for the worlds most powerful individual.

CHECK OUT THE RESULTS HERE

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BALL-NOGUES STUDIO INSTALLATION IN THE ITALIANA PAVILION

‘A proliferation of ephemeral structures endlessly blossom in our built environment. If the city is a river delta and architecture its slow moving main channel, then swirling through it are eddies of party tents, scaffolding, festival stages, and holiday street decorations. Theses enviroments reflect the community’s desire for happiness…’

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From left to right:Glenn Lowry, Director of MoMA (speaking),
Alanna Heiss, Director of PS1 Andres Lepik,
Curator of Contemporary Architecture, MoMA
Lela Rose, fashion designer and husband Brandon Jones

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MoMA PS1