A Matter of Data

As the self-renewing discipline that is architecture, Caryatide editions picks up the torch of the critical magazine—which was their very first form. They wish to enrich the debate around architecture by bringing a word that confronts to the news. Architecture is at the convergence of questioning, a discipline nourished by cross-disciplinary approaches. As such, as a signature, Caryatide endeavours to keep a critical point of view, enriched by a social and political look which the architectural discipline depends on, to highlight its complexity and aspirations. For each issue, two contributors are invited to share their thoughts on a new theme. Second issue of the critical magazine Dixit in which the words of the architect Yony Santos from the swiss architecture practice TYPICALOFFICE and of Marina Otero Verzier, director of research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), confront each other around the theme of “A Matter of Data”. Architecture is still a matter of space, but the understanding of this element is currently evolving by the emergence of new forms of electronic and computer-mediated realities. A Matter of Data explores this phenomenon observing the environments and installations that question our experience of space and analyzing the duality and relationships between physical and numerical interfaces of all kinds.