After a couple years with­out pub­lish­ing, the latest issue of Hunch #12 will be relaunched in col­lab­o­ra­tion with NAi Pub­lish­ers at the Berlage Insti­tute, Rot­ter­dam. The event takes place this coming Tues­day, the 31st March, at 19:00 within the school itself.

After a two-​year hiatus, this cel­e­brates the relaunch of Hunch under a new pub­lisher and edi­to­r­ial direc­tion. The event will include intro­duc­tory remarks by both Rob Docter, gen­eral direc­tor of the Berlage Insti­tute and Eelco van Welie, direc­tor of NAi Pub­lish­ers; and a pre­sen­ta­tion of the new edi­to­r­ial direc­tion and the con­tents of Hunch 12 by Salomon Frausto, editor of Hunch and head of archi­tec­tural broad­cast­ing at the Berlage Institute.

About Hunch #12: Bureau­cracy
Archi­tec­ture is con­tin­gent on the real­ity of sat­is­fy­ing a client, meet­ing build­ing codes, acquir­ing fund­ing, and gain­ing polit­i­cal sup­port in order to be real­ized. Twelve thought-​provoking con­tri­bu­tions by lead­ing and emerg­ing archi­tects, crit­ics, and schol­ars that explore the role of bureau­cracy in shap­ing con­tem­po­rary archi­tec­ture. Sub­jects range from gov­ern­men­tal reg­u­la­tions and new orga­ni­za­tional models for pro­fes­sional prac­tice to con­trast­ing forms of urban­ism and diver­gent inter­pre­ta­tions of eco­nomic value in rela­tion to cul­tural cap­i­tal. The authors focus on how select deter­mi­nants affect the built envi­ron­ment. At the same time they offer archi­tec­tural spec­u­la­tions, crit­i­cal obser­va­tions, and his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tives to rethink these processes in order to influ­ence the build­ings and cities of today and tomor­row. Along with these top­i­cal contributions—which are sup­ple­mented by mar­gin­a­lia of short sto­ries, anno­ta­tions, ter­mi­nolo­gies, and inventories—four 1,000-word texts and a visual essay com­ple­ment the issue to reflect on broader the­o­ret­i­cal aspects of archi­tec­ture culture.