Review of the Korean Gwangju Design Biennale 2011 written for Volume (EN) and Archined (NL) “Design that can be spoken of is not the eternal design” For once...

Tracing concepts; In, out and through computing - Edwin Gardner & Marcell Mars (2011) The arrival of the computer has produced a new knowledge field that was...

published as part of the Love and Hate Atlas in Volume #22 by Christian Ernsten, Edwin Gardner, Joost Janmaat The formulas for urban renewal have left their scars...

The Situation Room for Volume at Colophon, International Magazine Biennale 2009, Luxembourg On the 7 meter high walls of the Situation Room two windows on the...

Michael Kubo's Publishing Practices project shows a beautiful overview of where the architectural discipline looks for guidance. The presented collection of...

Action! Creating knowledge through practice is a blog that Rory Hyde and me launched in July 2009 as a satellite blog of Archis where we continued our fascination...

Edwin Gardner thinks through how social networking via, for example, Facebook is changing how we construct our identities. Who is your Google you? He argues that...

The Al Manakh website is a blog that functions as a research tool for an upcoming publication on urban developments in the Gulf region produced by Archis, AMO, NAi...

The God complex could acquire new meaning for an upcoming generation of architects and plan ners. Some of them played a 'God game' growing up called Sim City. It's...

As web-editor (2005-2010) for Volume I developed an update for the Volume site in collaboration with Resource Studio (programming) and Paul Swagerman (graphic...

Practitioners and Practice, A Reality Check Volume (Arjen Oosterman and me) sat down with several specialists in architecture and construction to discuss the state...

The Archis Platform (archis.org) is a website that was developed for the Archis Foundation (Amsterdam) together with Resource Studio (programming), Paul...

by Edwin Gardner Definitions are determined by institutions, committees and dictionaries, which try to find a consensus on the practice of terms and concepts in...

In five chapters, five different ideas/meanings of architecture are displayed. Architecture as Guidance, Happiness, Structure, Mood Engineering and Power Play. We...