Nick Axel (’10): new managing editor at Volume/Archis
Alumni News:
Nick Axel designated new managing editor at Volume / Archis.
After graduating from Architecture Rensselaer in 2010 with a B.Arch and a minor in philosophy, Nick Axel worked for Alejandro Aravena at ELEMENTAL in Chile. Axel then joined Luis Vidal + Architects in Madrid. In 2013 Nick graduated with Distinction from the Centre for Research Architecture in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, during which he started working with Forensic Architecture as a researcher, a position which he continues up until this day. He is additionally a guest lecturer in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar. He has published theory, articles and independent projects in leading architecture journals and recently participated as a resident in the 2014-2015 Winter Residency at DAAR.
[Nick describes himself as] an unlicensed architect, radical theorist, critical journalist and spatial strategist, currently based in London. His architectural approach to the production of space is akin to the approach of an editor to a text. His current research endeavors seek to meditate on the metaphysical instantiation of power through the medium of architecture as both a problem and a solution, both a question and an answer, both impossible and inevitable.
You can find more at his website nickaxel.net and Awaking Lucid blog.
In the Spring of 2015, Axel was designated Managing Editor for Volume Magazine/Archis in the Netherlands.
Volume magazine is an independent quarterly magazine that reaches out for global views on designing environments, advocates broader attitudes to social structures, and reclaims the cultural and political significance of architecture. Created as a global idea platform to voice architecture any way, anywhere, anytime, it represents the expansion of architectural territories and the new mandate for design. Please click here to find out more.