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. NESS 2 focuses on planetary representations: MAD WORLD
PICTURES. In our second issue's Browser we visit design studio LaFeliz,
Luis Úrculo's landscapes, and the research enterprise of Feminist
Architecture Collaborative. Picking up on the question "What are the
limits to the possible?" posed by Jean-Luc Nancy, The Dossier places the
issue of planetary representations at center: Richard Saul Wurman
recounts maps as a tool for understanding; Alexandra Arènes and Bruno
Latour develop new cartographies of The Earth; Giuliana Bruno defines
'tender mapping; the exhibition Walls of Air drafts the immaterial
barriers of Brazil's architecture and territory; and Fake Industries
speculate on the sudden invention of the Indo-Pacific Region. Also,
Uriel Fogué, Parasite Lab, María Jérez, Jesse LeCavalier, and Sophia Al
Maria dared to play with an exquisite corpse via email. In Documents, we
talked to Michael Maltzan: learnt about his beginnings, the office and
its projects, as well as his commitment to architecture as a culture
building practice. Finally, we interviewed Ensamble Studio in the
Cyclopean House. We looked into the span between prefabrication and
their most dramatic landscape structures.
