Fourth Door Review

Issue No. 8

Publiished 2009

The Hall of Risk Issue

Chris Drury: Places of absolute nothingness and other deserts

Susan Collins: In conversation with Sean Cubitt

Samadhi soundwave - David Sylvian and Harold Budd

Vorarlberg and Graubünden - the Alpine sources of a new regionalism

Hiding out under grey mountain: Peter Zumthor, Valerio Olgiati, Bearth Deplazes and Jurg Conzett

Vorarlberg’s avant eco building scene: Dietmar Eberle, Hermann Kaufmann, Marte.Marte

Watching the river run wild: Jay Griffiths on time and water

Jay Merrick maxxes out on the minimal thing

Juhani Pallasmaa's manifesto for tactility

Horses coming in from all directions; Mongolia’s Roaring Hooves Festival

Fourth Door Review 8 features a series of in-depth interviews - with artists, Chris Drury and Jem Finer; with musicians David Sylvian and Harold Budd, and in architecture, with Peter Zumthor and Juhani Pallasmaa

A Tale of Two Regions - This Fourth Door the special focus is on the Alpine regional architectural culture of Graubünden, Switzerland and Vorarlberg, Austria; featuring further interviews (from Graubünden), with Valerio Olgiati and Jurg Conzett and (from Vorarlberg) Dietmar Eberle, Hermann Kauffmann and Marte.Marte,

Jay Merrick contributes a piece on architecture and the media, and ecstatic poet of the wild Jay Griffiths has written an essay on undulating water, and new media artist Susan Collins and Sean Cubitt engage In Conversation.

Full Contents

Framework – Art

Chris Drury Complexity and the edge of land art: Drury's art & science turn

A Fourth Door land art feature

Jem Finer An orchestra of the elements Score', 'Longplayer' and other digital-earth time pieces

Susan Collins In Conversation with 'Sean Cubitt: Fenlandia and other pixel landscapes

Digitalis – New Media

Gantenbein Winery Gramazio & Kohler mixes viniculture and robotics

Also on Unstructured 4

Split Scan Scenario's Egbert Mittelstadt's dream-like digital ambient films

theirwork Dominica Williamson and Emmett Connelly writing on their community digital mapping turned guerrilla action
Also on Unstructured 4

Architecture - A tale of two Architectural regions – Graubünden & Vorarlberg

A tale of two regions - Introduction

Graubünden

The Enigma of Peter Zumthor

Jürg Conzett's - bridges of thin air

Graubünden's new generation – Corinna Menn, IseppiKurath and Collective ARGE Sursass

Concrete, colour and craft - – the case of Valerio Olgiati

A river runs regionally - Graubünden and Vorarlberg's Alpine regionalism explored

Vorarlberg

Marte.Marte at the head of Vorarlberg's new generation by Otto Kapfinger

Kaufmann Country - Vorarlberg's timber dynasty

New generation housing - Christoph Kalb Frohlingstrasse by Robert Fabach

Passivhaus's active Vorarlberg origins

Makeshift/Middleground

Bernhard Wulff on the Mongolian steppe Roaring Hooves Festival

0's and 1's - Matt Lumby's Binary Books

Jay Griffiths writing on time and the river

Wood Studio - Helsinki's Cool Wood School by Pekka Heikkinen

Farewell to the local saw-mill by John Russell

A Blue to Dye for - Indigo clothing and textiles exhibition

Steppe – A magazine dedicated to the near-east Stan countries

Kate Dodd's lovely recipe - Carrot Soup with North African spices

Dreams Of Consciousness – DOC – Conscious/Mind

Juhani Pallasmaa interview – the dream life of tactility

Maxed out on the minimum thing – Architecture, celebrity and the media by Jay Merrick

Margins of Music – Music/Sound

David Sylvian – the chemistry of affect and devotion

The Mohave desert music of ambient minimalist Harold Budd

Wordwatch – Book Reviews

A Final Phase Transition? - Dark Ages America, By Morris Berman - review by Tom Zengotita

Nanoculture and the Imagination - Nanoculture edited by N Katherine Hayles, The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson, Prey, Michael Crichton, The Nanotech Quartet, by Kathleen Goonan

Reread – Lewis Hyde's well-known defence of Creativity revisited – The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde - reviewed by Heidi Watts