Verb Crisis

Verb Crisis is an architectural journal that tackles difficult issues. The journal has a great amount of depth and is focused on changing attitudes in the reader. The journal has a promising future and will hopefully tackle other difficult issues.

Current architectural intervention demonstrates a tendency towards the production of the superficial. Verb Crisis tackles the conflict that marks the collision between the physical nature of the architectural commission. It presents projects and investigations that grant the practice of architecture an updated optimism and social relevance. Current architectural intervention has demonstrated a tendency towards the production of the superficial - effects, ornamentation, and embellishments are applied to programs defined by social, economic, and technical conditions that fall outside of the profession. Verb Crisis tackles the conflict that marks the collision between the physical nature of the architectural commission and the demands of a world that is increasingly dense and interdependent, a world marked by undeniable environmental problems and economic inequalities. Given the shortfalls of standard professional attitudes, Verb Crisis presents projects and investigations that grant the practice of architecture an updated optimism and social relevance. Review: An extremely varied collection of places, opinions, and architectural designs, yet with a great amount of depth, all focused on a difficult topic. It holds great promise for future issues of Verb that will (hopefully) tackle other difficult issues that require not only changing approaches to architecture but changing attitudes in the reader.