This issue of ARQ presents a broad critical discussion on the supposed neutrality of instruments. This emphasis is evident in the conversation between Andrés Jaque and Enrique Walker, in the texts by Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Ignacio G. Galán, and Gonzalo Carrasco, as well as in the debate surrounding the Promotion Law, which seeks to support architecture produced in Chile through a legal instrument. Furthermore, it explores a territory where architecture can make a contribution: the creation of instruments.
Featured here are proposals such as those by DSGN AGNC, Carlo Ratti, and the MIT Senseable City Lab; projects by Gonzalo Claro, Renato Rizzi, and S9 Architecture; the portfolio by Lofscapes; and the text by Hidalgo, Rosas, and Strabucchi. Finally, the texts by Temtem and Alfaro d’Alençon, as well as the piece by Cortés, Saric, and Puig, highlight the discovery of certain instruments that had previously gone unnoticed.
- Photo Essay: Support, distance, and framing in the definition of landscape / Lofscapes
- Editorial: Instruments for what? / Francisco Díaz
- Readings, works, and projects
- Architecture as a political instrument: Andrés Jaque and Enrique Walker in conversation / Andrés Jaque, Enrique Walker
- Sandboxing. A game of negotiation and resources / DSGN AGNC
- Missiles and chronometers: the instrumentality of architecture through management tools / Gonzalo Carrasco Purull
- Digital tools for the city of the future / Carlo Ratti
- Neo-naturalism / Zeynep Celik Alexander
- Architecture Building, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / Gonzalo Claro
- Knots, nodes, nuts / Pedro Correa
- Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre / Renato Rizzi
- 160 East 22nd Street / S9 Architecture
- Typology as an instrument: from the grand hotel to the Antumalal motel / Macarena Cortés, Pablo Saric, Anita Puig
- Santiago de Chile around 1850. The urban floor plan as a revealing instrument of its general form / Germán Hidalgo, José Rosas, Wren Strabucchi
- Architectures of traffic: the chaining of architectural tools for transport infrastructure planning / Filipe Temtem, Paola Alfaro D’alencon
- Circulate! The language of architecture in circulation and as an instrument for circulation / Ignacio G. Galán
- Debate / Mario Marchant, Pilar Urrejola
- News
