NESS is a printed publication about architecture, life, and urban
culture. We are in continuous dialogue with provocative designers and
thinkers to expand and diversify our conversations and to be open to new
visions and ideas. It is divided into Browser, The Dossier, and
Documents. For the Spring 2018 issue, NESS warms up with a selection of
the nine installations that rocked 2017 and further browses through the
work of Eleni Petaloti & Leonidas Trampoukis, whose sibling
practices--LOT and objects of common interest--shift from one scale to
another with subtle sophistication. Plus, Berlin-based architect Lena
Wimmer presents her utmost experimental projects. Next, NESS headed to
Detroit and dedicates a 38-page survey to draw a portrait of the city
through their own curious and questioning lenses. The editors went to
the Planning and Development Department and talked to authorities,
designers, architects, community representatives, and developers shaping
the former Motor-City. In the Dossier section, "Between Cozy History and
Homey Technics", architects, critics, and thinkers were asked to
provocatively discuss the intellectual and pragmatic set of tools at
hand: Stan Allen and Jesus Vassallo talk about photography and the built
environment as a filter of abstraction; Enrique Ramirez and Mimi Zeiger
reflect on the aesthetics--or lack thereof--in contemporary
representation technics; Emanuel Christ and Camilo Restrepo imagine the
type as a vehicle for ideas to travel through building cultures; and
Sharon Johnston and Florencia Rodriguez exchange views on curating in
architecture. Lastly, NESS crew flew to Chicago, Vienna, Seoul, and
Valparaiso to review the latest events and reflect upon the biennial
phenomenon. And, finally in Documents, NESS sat down with two acclaimed
architecture offices: French Bruther and New York-based SO - IL to get
to know each of their practice, processes, and projects in a
comprehensive interview, detailed drawings and photographs.
