MENTAL (FRIDA ESCOBEDO)

Issue 24

S/S 2018

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MENTAL (FRIDA ESCOBEDO)

Issue 24

S/S 2018

AMANDA LEVETE

With a range of new global projects to her name, this British architectural powerhouse has decidedly come into her own.
Interview by Felix Burrichter
Photography by Mathilde Agius

JONATHAN OLIVARES AND DOZIE KANU

One of the design industry’s leading voices meets one of its brightest young talents to talk the legs off a chair.
Portraits by Ian Markell

FRIDA ESCOBEDO

This erudite Mexican ingenue brings economy of form to complex architectural ideas.
Interview by Eva Munz
Portraits by Dorian Ulises López Macías

WILLIAM SCOTT

With his boundless imagination, this self-taught “architect” conjures hybrid utopias where peace and Diana Ross reign supreme.
Interview by Michael Bullock
Portraits by Daniel Trese

ALSO

A 24-page portfolio of mental furniture including work by the likes of Matt Ager, Dora Budor, Archille Castiglioni, Christophe Delcourt, Elias Hansen, Paul Kopkau, Hannah Levy, Mary Little, Rich Mnisi, Jessi Reaves, Andy Robertson, René Roubíček, Chris Schanck, Bořek Šípek, Soft Baroque, Ian Stell, Sam Stewart, Katie Stout, Zhipeng Tan, Anna Uddenberg, Wentrceck + Zebulon, and Casja von Zeipel; the drawings of Pezo von Ellrichshausen; the surreal landscapes of the Spanish island of Lanzarote; an interview with Robert Yang on designing sex video games; an exhibition by Arakawa and Gins; Florian Graf’s use of architecture as art; a new book by Grafton Architects; an interview with Andrés Jaque on imagining urban desires; Donald Judd’s furniture; a look inside Sigve Knutson’s Oslo studio; Snarkitecture’s first monograph; a portfolio of melting beds by Carlos Saéz; the romance and neglect of Rome’s post-war architecture and of Athens’s last Olympics; as well as essays about the architecture of 19th-century insane asylums and the connections between drone warfare, mental health, and suburbia.

Plus: A special supplement in collaboration with Yeezy, photographed by Nicholas Cope and with text by Mimi Zeiger.