Broke Magazine #1

Broke is an architecture theory magazine, which was written, designed and published by WTO. The firstr issue poses the question, how an architecture could look like, that allows its own changeability: an architecture of a loss of control.

Editor: Daniel Mock for WTO
Publisher: AmiDemon Books Berlin
Year: 2007
Paperback: 117 pages

Maputo Maputo

Maputo Maputo is a photographical journey through the modern architecture of Mocambigue. Especially between the 1920 and 1950, the portuguese rulers built numbers of houses in the style of the european modernist design. Today a lot of this buildings are occupied by the poor population and they often use them for purposes other than intended. The effect of this occupation is often a redesign of the architecture itself.

Editor: Daniel Mock for WTO
Publisher: AmiDemon Books Berlin
Year: 2007
Paperback: 60 pages

5 Codes: Architecture, Paranoia and Risk in Times of Terror

When the World Trade Centers Twin Towers collapsed into a heap of rubble and ash, the United States government created the Department of Homeland Security. Its primary task is to keep the terrorist threat in permanent view. To do this, it developed a five-stage warning system based on the colors green, blue, yellow, orange, and red: 5 codes.

Editor: Igmade
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Year: 2006
Paperback: 299 pages
ISBN-10: 3-7643-7597-3
ISBN-13: 978-3-7643-7597-3

Interview with Noam Chomsky

In November 2005, Daniel Mock and Stephan Trüby met Noam Chomsky at the MIT in Camebridge, Mass. They talked with Chomsky about 9.11, the homeland security advisory system, anarchy, conspirancies, suburbia and the future of the kibbuz. The Interview was published in the magazine Archis -Volume 7, and in the book 5 Codes.

Volume 7
Editor: Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Year: 2006