In this editorial from VOLUME's milestone 50th issue, Arjen Oosterman?the magazine's Editor-in-Chief?reflects on over ten years of cultural production and discourse and outlines what is to come. ArchDaily will be sharing a selection of the articles from this issue over the coming weeks.

A photo posted by Volume (@archisvolume) on Nov 22, 2016 at 6:28am PST In this editorial from VOLUME's milestone 50th issue, Arjen Oosterman?the magazine's Editor-in-Chief?reflects on over ten years of cultural production and discourse and outlines what is to come. ArchDaily will be sharing a selection of the articles from this issue over the coming weeks.Moving forward implies looking back. When we started this research engine called VOLUME in 2005, economic, political, and social conditions were very different to how they are today. The intention to rethink the agency of ?beyond? as driver for change inevitably means historicizing the trajectory of the VOLUME project so far. That said, we really didn?t want to turn VOLUME itself into the subject of reflection. So we?ll instead talk about the present and, in so doing, find history creeping its way in whether we like it or not.
Can architecture really survive without the motherboard of the building" Of course it can!
?Ole Bouman, Volume #1: Beyond, 2005 In 2005, when VOLUME began, the notion of ?going beyond? was able to be introduced as a much needed upset of the (by and large) self-indulgent situation that ...