Volume Magazine
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Volume Magazine is a quarterly international magazine published in Amsterdam.

Volume Magazine is a project by Archis
Archis
Archis may refer to:* Archi people* Archis, Armenia* Archiş, a commune in Arad County, RomaniaArchis means " An anti craft Gun " . Which is used by air force....

 (Amsterdam), AMO
AMO
-Places:*Amo, Brunei, a province in Temburong District*Amo, Indiana, United States, a town in Hendricks County*Amo Township, Cottonwood County, Minnesota-People known by the single name:*Adam Morrison or Amo , American professional basketball player...

 (Rotterdam) and C-Lab (Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, New York). Volume was created as a global idea platform to voice architecture, any way, anywhere, anytime.

Founded by Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, at the Architectural...

 and Mark Wigley
Mark Wigley
Mark Antony Wigley is a New Zealand-born architect, author, and Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, United States.-Life:...

 in 2005, Volume is set out to be not only a magazine, but also a studio and a school.

Volume is a dynamic experimental think tank devoted to the process of spatial and cultural reflexivity. It goes beyond architecture’s definition of ‘making buildings’ and reaches out for global views on architecture and design, broader attitudes to social structures, and creating environments to live in. The project represents the expansion of architectural territories and the new mandate for design.

History

The Volume project continues Archis
Archis
Archis may refer to:* Archi people* Archis, Armenia* Archiş, a commune in Arad County, RomaniaArchis means " An anti craft Gun " . Which is used by air force....

, magazine for Architecture, City, and Visual Culture and its predecessors since 1929. Het Katholiek Bouwblad, Goed Wonen, Wonen/TABK, and finally Archis wanted architecture to mean something. For the religious perception, for the emancipation of the working class, for the social consciousness, for philosophy, i.e. for an ideal.

Journalistic idea

‘The art of being proactive’. Volume creates the agenda. It stands for a journalism which detects and anticipates, is proactive and even pre-emptive - a journalism which uncovers potentialities, rather than covering done deals.

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