"It's legal, but is it legitimate?" and "It's legitimate, but is it
legal?" These are questions rarely discussed in public concerning
architecture and urban design. Yet architects have to deal with rules
and regulations, and architecture is to a large extent defined by them.
So the question is: how to deal with the law? Throughout the pages of
this issue, 'Volume' explored different strategies for dealing with
legal problems, whether that be through a direct fight or indirect
action, through avoiding, subverting or changing the law. Because in the
end, law is too important to be left to lawyers.
