Shot in 1994, Berlin is an extended photo essay recording the transformation of the urban landscape of the city of Berlin. Capturing a moment frozen in time, these photographs present a Berlin that no longer exists but continues to survive.

"Open-ended Logic: Space-Time-Information (Composition -> Position -> Disposition)" defends the new, underlying architectonic logic (spatial-temporal in conception) that has emerged within contemporary culture. In accordance with a shared terrain of inquiry, which represent a whole series of decisive experiences from the past fifteen years, this new logic could be considered a "logics of complexity." Concerned with the mapping of the contemporary project and the contemporary city, Open-Ended Logic focuses on the capacity of linkages between dynamic systems and irregular structures.

The shift from ''modern'' to digital systems of design and production opens up a material work to a much more profound interaction between author and audience. This change represents a new stage in the development of the relationship that a work--or, in another sense, a message--establishes between the author--or sender--and the reader--or receiver. From the classical work, with its "a priori," essentialist model of appreciation, to the modernist object, with its subjective model of aesthetics, to the emerging cybernetic model, the interface between author and ''user'' has become closer, more direct, and more open. The first issue of the new "boogazine" Verb looks closely at these questions regarding the present relationship between information and authorship in cultural practice, asking: how does the increasing complicity between author and audience affect architectural practice? And how can architecture be conceived more fluidly in terms of information? Handsomely designed and richly illustrated, this combination of book and magazine is the first installment in what is sure to be a groundbreaking journey through architecture and design.

This is a double reprint in a single volume of the books "Housing" and "Singular Housing", previously published separately, with the addition of several more recent projects. On the one hand, this book proposes a purposeful gaze on a number of recent housing proposals; on the other, it analyses the single-family dwelling from different and provocative points of view. The first part, more theoretical in intent, focuses on an exploration of those "project dynamics" that tend to generate new formal systems associated with the phenomenon of change taking place in the contemporary city. The second presents a set of projects and works considered paradigmatic of the contemporary approach to housing. In addition, three fundamental chapters - the house as an enclosure, the house as an artefact and the house as landscape - posit in the form of projects, quotes and images a whole series of new possibilities in the architecture of the personal habitat.

A lo largo de estas paginas y bajo el formato de un diccionario selectivo de terminos queremos identificar una nueva voluntad arquitectonica. Una voluntad basada en un cambio profundo de miradas, criterios, instrumentos, conceptos y actitudes que une hoy, entre si, inquietudes compartidas y objetivos comunes producidos mas alla del contexto, en diversos espacios culturales. Quiere abordar sin remoras ni complejos, sin predeterminaciones ni formulas establecidas, con desinhibicion, pero tambien con energia y precision, aquellas parcelas clave que definen la propia realidad contemporanea. En este sentido, se ha decidido definir aquellos terminos susceptibles de reflejar el ambito, las caracteristicas y las repercusiones de dicha arquitectura avanzada en base a un diccionario selectivo: una arquitectura inscrita en la sociedad de la informacion e influida por las nuevas tecnologias, la nueva economia, la atencion por el medio ambiente, el interes hacia el individuo... La pluralidad de los autores y de las aportaciones especiales debe considerarse como una decision inicial destinada a favorecer el cruce y la complicidad de visiones y apuestas en esta direccion.