More than ever, architects today are called upon to build gestural landmarks and grandiose signature buildings. But architecture was never only about building. It is also about the flows of people, information, and resources that shape space. Today, the practice of architecture often confronts situations where these flows cannot be reduced to modernist managerial approaches to systematizing, structuring, and mastering the potentials of space.

In a two-part “Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure” issue of e-flux journal edited together with Nikolaus Hirsch, the intangible and immaterial flows that today appear to exceed the language of building proper are shown by a number of architects to be made not only of space, but also of information…

Editorial—“Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure,” Issue Two
Nikolaus Hirsch, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

X-Screens: Röntgen Architecture
Beatriz Colomina

Humanitarianism’s Housing Question: From Slum Reform to Digital Shelter
Andrew Herscher

Who Builds Your Architecture?: An Advocacy Report
Kadambari Baxi, Jordan Carver, Mabel O. Wilson

Monumentaries: Toward a Theory of the Apergon
Jorge Otero-Pailos

Plan B
Bernard Khoury

The Dispersal of Architecture
Niklas Maak

Towards a Non-Intentional Space
Hu Fang

In Conversation with Hans Hollein
Hans Ulrich Obrist

A Polite Fiction
Taryn Simon

Dated Talks
Rem Koolhaas and Ingo Niermann

Nothing Is More Fantastic Ultimately than Precision: John Hejduk’s Berlin Tower
Shumon Basar