Index
Front
11 SCENE Lego launches in braille and Boris Johnson has another crack at bridges
12 DIARY The RA takes on the climate emergency while the V&A revs up for its autumn blockbuster
14 CRIMES AGAINST DESIGN The world's most annoying credit card
16 OPINION Data is now part of a building's fabric - it's time architects treated it as such
On the cover
Photograph by Marvin Leuvrey from the series Overflow, which explores the self-destructive tendencies of hypercapitalism through a plethora of technologies (also see p. 93-101).
November 2019
CONTENTS / NOVEMBER
Design
20 DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE Meet the designers finding new ways to avoid the all-seeing eye of technology
30 Q&A: YURI SUZUKI The Pentagram designer explains why we need to tune in to the power of sound
40 PROFILE: NAM JUNE PAIK The pioneering Korean artist whose work with television and robotics presaged the digital media age
50 BEST OF BRITISH Two trail-blazing new cars roll into Shanghai
54 A MODERN SICKNESS Why wellness apps might not be so great for our health
62 ICON: MICROCHIP Where would we be without the integrated circuit?
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Architecture
64 CLUBWASHING Developers are opening temporary clubs on new regeneration sites. Is this the new face of gentrification?
72 ODUNPAZARI MODERN MUSEUM Kengo Kuma balances memory and modernity with a stacked-timber art gallery in the heart of Anatolia
82 ICON MINDS: SAM JACOB The FAT founder reflects on a polymathic career and his shibboleth-busting approach to architecture
93 PHOTO STORY Marvin Leuvrey's warning shots of a society hurtling into a technological abyss
102 ICON: KUNSTHAUS GRAZ Peter Cook's 'friendly alien' -a futuristic blast from the past
Review
104 FOR FOREST Klauss Littmann takes over an Austrian football stadium with an awe-inspiring call to arms
108 MONA HATOUM The Palestinian artist leads a heavyweight triple bill at White Cube Bermondsey
110 WONG PING: HEART DIGGER The Hong Kong artist brings his candy-coloured fables of human darkness to London
114 STORIES The Dutch designer to designing solar energy into the surfaces of the city