On Farming: Bracket 1
InfraNet Lab and their sister organization Lateral Office, are experts at letting the architecture sit comfortably in the background of their projects. Using minimal gestures, they confront systemic problems with the skilled placement of pivot gantries and wind screens, through the clever coupling of infrastructures, and through good old-fashioned research. Fortunately this architectural restraint shines through in Bracket, bringing together architectural speculation from contributors from around the world, focused more on the problems at hand than the aesthetics that follow. --The Pop-Up CityWith the popularity of urban agriculture, vertical farming, and other hybrids of architecture and landscape, "on farming" may not be as overlooked as the editors assert, but the collection of projects and writings is the best one so far, a publication that doesn't push one agenda but embraces a multitude of approaches to thinking about food in our future. --A Weekly Dose of ArchitectureBracket is based on the perpetual variation of the editorial board, reformulated in function of the theme of the single annual issue (the first, rural urbanism, the second, soft systems) built by flanking the core of the Canadian collective InfraNetLab with ad hoc editors, subsequently disseminated through the long experience of the Catalan publisher ACTAR. --Domus