Flash Art Volumes 002 – 2025

Flash Art Volumes: Anti-Composition is the first publication dedicated to new (and forgotten) aesthetics surrounding the intersections of design and architecture. Conceived by Flash Art Editor-in-Chief, Gea Politi, and Creative Director, Alessio Avventuroso. For its second issue, Flash Art Volumes invited Michael Abel and Nile Greenberg of the New York–based architecture practice ANY as guest editors. They have titled this edition “Crisis Formalism.”

In this issue: CRISIS FORMALISM

“Crisis Formalism” stands on a dual premise: first, that architectural form has lost its immediacy and resonance; second, that contemporary crises require more than reactive solutions. If architects address crises in isolation – whether geopolitical, financial, or environmental – designs unravel under the weight of their interdependencies. Morin warns that fragmented, reductionist thinking produces a blindness that leaves architecture complicit in the very crises it seeks to mitigate. 

Milan, Italy; 230mm x 300mm; 300 pages