"matières" magazine tackles the end of architecture

Architecture continues thanks to the consequential proclamations of its end. The aim of this issue is to examine how this mechanism has worked and continues to work.To refer to the end of architecture is always to redefineits end in the other sense of the word: its purpose, itsmeaning, its finality.

This end is only possible because there is no consensus on what architecture really is, or where it leads. What happens when architecture ends? What was meant by the word architecture no longer exists, or is no longer deemed sufficient, and is transformed, for better or for worse, into something else.

To document or evoke similar moments, this issue of "matières" brings together essays in which an 'end' to architecture - historical or current - is analysed and interpreted.