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SKALA no. 31: Architecture in a time of polarities

Marking what would have been the year of Henning Larsen's 100th birthday, SKALA no. 31: Architecture in a time of polarities, is continuing the magazine’s legacy. The team has gathered leading voices in art and architecture from around the world to contribute and explore the discipline’s role in a rapidly changing world.

The editorial team consists of Dan Bjerg Hansen, Kjeld Vindum, Louis Becker, Maya Shpiro, Nanna Dalkjær Rasmussen, and Simon Ingvartsen, with editing by Molly Marie Murphy and Victoria Wooltorton, graphic design by Bodil Nordstrøm, Ebba Maria Alkstrand, and Thea Amalie Käszner, and Japanese translation by Aya Okamura. The publication is printed by Narayana Press in Odder and published by Henning Larsen.

Grab your copy at the Danish Architecture Centre, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, KIHOSKH, and directly via Henning Larsen’s studios worldwide.

Sumayya Vally's contribution, titled 'Home is found in fragments,' explores the concept of 'home' and 'away' through her 2021 Serpentine Pavilion.

Contributors are: Kjetil Trædal Thorsen (Snøhetta), Gabriela Carrillo (Colectivo c733), Nathalie De Vries (MVRDV), Stig L. Andersson (SLA), Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (Author of A Moratorium on New Construction), Rosanna Vitiello and Christos Koukis (The Place Bureau), Sumayya Vally (Counterspace), John Lin (University of Hong Kong), Junya Ishigami (junya.ishigami+associates), Neil Leach (Architectural theorist and educator), Gilles Clément (Gardener landscape architect, and writer), Leslie Kern (Author of Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World), Lisa Fior (muf architecture/art), Ingrid Maria Paoletti (Politecnico di Milano), Phil Ayres (Royal Danish Academy), and Richard Leplastrier (Architect and educator).

The 31st edition explores themes such as the intersection of technology and design, the relationship between built and natural environments, and architecture’s social responsibilities.