Makeshift is an experimental fanzine about architecture and its alternatives. Where current architectural journalism continues to celebrate the built, the photogenic, the 'well-detailed'- with successful professionals writing wry critiques on a minority of 'nice Buildings', Makeshift is an attempt to go where architecture is not yet; to bring together a wealth of IDEAS that are currently disconnected by professional categorisations, geography, or un-fame.
INTERDEPENDENCE UK_OPEN CITY BROADCAST4TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE ROTTERDAM PARALLEL CASESNarrated by Alex KirbyUniversity of Sheffield School of Architecture Studio 6India AspinLukas BarryEdward FowlerRichard HollandTomas KangroMartin LydonAlastair ParvinPatrick SkingleyandJordan J. LloydAdam TowleExecutive Producer:Renata TyszczukOPEN CITY BROADCAST is produced by Studio Six, the University of Sheffield for the Interdependence Day project, © 2009.For more information on this proj...
ServerPlan for an Autonomous MotorwayAlthough to most of us they are invisible, we are all dependent on a few highly-complex, energy-intensive systems which ensure the continuous supply of food to cities. The increasing concentration of those systems and the first effects of global peak oil production will mean we can no longer afford to take them for granted. Rather than settle for the price-hikes inherent in the ‘local production’ solution, Server speculates upon whether we can redefine what...