Why should an architecture journal publish about animation? Because architecture is not only buildings. It is also a discipline of space, light, movement, image and perception.
The shared material
An animator does not build a house, but builds a frame. The frame still needs hierarchy, proportion, depth and a route for the eye. An architect does not edit a film, but organizes sequences of approach, threshold, compression and release.
Beyond disciplinary borders
The most useful cultural conversations often happen where professions overlap. Architecture learns from cinema, graphic design learns from urban space, and animation absorbs the logic of interiors, façades and constructed worlds.
Why Cabinet follows the image
ARCHCABINET.ONLINE treats visual culture as part of architectural culture because buildings are increasingly encountered first through images: renderings, films, feeds, exhibitions and screens. To understand contemporary architecture, we have to understand those media too.