forA on the Urban Issue #1

Tense spaces: Towards an expanded concept of architecture

The first issue of the interdisciplinary periodical forA on the Urban explores the open, multilayered, interconnected, complex, and unbridled nature of urban design. Through eleven contributions from eighteen international experts on architecture, art, social criticism, and activism, this issue illuminates specific realities of fraught spaces – urban frictions – in different parts of the world.

Everyday frustrations, manifest inequalities, and social and political conflicts are examined throughout this issue in a process of description, discussion, and designation. The relationships between urban objects reflect the emergence of plurality and coexistence within and beyond what can be seen and understood as urban within an expanded concept of architecture.

• First issue of the periodical forA on the Urban from the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
• With contributions by Keller Easterling, Phineas Harper, Hira Nabi, Ou Ning and Xu Tiantian, Lola Sheppard and Mason White, among others
• Elaborate and innovative design (Studio Lin)

Eleven Frictions from an Urbanized World 978-3-0356-2849-4