PLAT Journal 9.0 Commit, with Lauren J. Phillips
PLAT is an independent architectural journal whose purpose is to stimulate relationships between design, production, and theory. It operates by interweaving professional and academic work into an open and evolving dialogue which progresses from issue to issue. Curating worldwide submissions in two annual issues, PLAT is a projective catalyst for architectural discourse.
Contributors to the 9.0 issue approach the idea of commitment from a variety of perspectives, from the architectural to the literary and beyond. Topics covered include the question of architecture as building or as art, authorship and intentionality, pragmatism and economy, and the aestheticization of austerity.
The issue is organized around three clusters. The first includes Walter Benn Michaels, Scott Colman, Savia Palate, Megan Panzano, Viola Ago, and Michael Meredith. Ilinca Pop operates as a transition toward the next cluster, composed of Mark Foster Gage, Sumayya Vally, Galen Pardee, and Kian Hosseinnia with Matthew Allen. Iñaki Ábalos marks the beginning of the third and final cluster, which includes Sebastián Adamo and Jack Murphy, Natcha Ruamsanitwong, and Letícia Wouk Almino and culminates with Jesús Vassallo.
PLAT 9.0 Commit was funded by the Graham Foundation and was awarded the 2021 Haskell Award by the Center for Architecture. In early 2021, Azure Magazine listed the 9.0 issue as one of 10 new books pushing the boundaries of design. It was exhibited—as part of Drawing Agency’s “Territories of Territory Extraction”—at the MAS Context Reading Room (2021), a Partner Program of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Most recently, it was included in Drawing Agency’s new exhibit at the Wedge Gallery at Woodbury University (2022).
Plat Journal 9.0: Commit
Rice Architecture (2020)
143 pages
17 x 24 cm
ISSN 2162-4305
