Architecture does not simply circulate in images; it circulates within an economy that rewards speed, legibility, and compliance, quietly aligning formal production with dominant structures of power. The paralysis that accompanies a lack of clarity risks naturalizing the very systems that shape what can be built, funded, and seen. Instead of chasing ever-sharper images, we might linger in the haze produced by digital repetition and ask what forms of attention it forecloses. Resolution, then, is not merely a narrative endpoint or an index of optical fidelity, but a decision about how and where to fix meaning within a fluid field of references. To resolve is to determine, even if for a moment, what counts and what remains peripheral. When understood as determination rather than representation or conclusion, resolution shifts architecture away from photogenic coherence and toward experiential and tectonic negotiation, where agency can begin to register. Resolution thus emerges not as a final synthesis but as a strategic pause—a temporary alignment that resists merely looking by keeping architecture open to seeing again.

In this issue of PLAT, contributors move across these unresolved conditions, attending to the built and the perceived, the material and the mediated, and reasserting the agency of perception itself. They question the regimes of representation and presentation that structure what becomes visible, and what remains underrepresented within the discipline. Taken together, these projects do not propose a single corrective, but ask after the status quo that has come to feel naturalized, the zeitgeist of the disciplinary epidermis that has emerged without deliberate choice. They search for ways to dissolve the opacity of the discipline’s boundaries as contributors, or to probe them externally to examine the resolution within.

Co-Editors: Maxwell Stith & Chuanjie (Jayden) Yan 

Team: Abby Chen, Deniz Kantar, Tianai Duan, Yousif Giyo, Musab Salah, Ghazal Torkamaniha, Sophie Valbrune, Zhan (Michael) Zhong, Mingru Han, Prea Davis, William Yiming Liu, Osvaldo Salgado, Whitney Walden, Moxuan (Grace) Xu, Kirstie Qian.

With contributions from:

Igor Marjanović—On the Optics and Politics of Resolutions

Maxwell Stith & Chuanjie “Jayden” Yan—Repetition and Resolution

Sophia Haewon Lee—Some Funny Images

Juchen Zhang—6 × 6

Lulu Crouzet—Paper Space (mis)translations 

Brendon Carlin & María Páez González—When Infrastructure Becomes Architecture 

Clara Rummer—Shooting Architecture in a Post-Digital Age

Motomi Matsubara—Fillet is More Than a Corner Problem! 

HONMI, Namhi Kwun & Bryan Honting Wong—Hungry Ghosts: Forms of Belief and Belief in Forms 

Samantha Ong—Recognizing My Bed

Jyah Flam—Chicken Coop Rhapsody

Mingxuan Wei—Analog Aesthetic

Jono Coles—Mock Mock-ups

Carrie Gammell—The American Resolution

Joseph Hsu—Two Hanses

Eric Kyle Cheung & Andrea Machado Romero—The Chronic Loss of Interpretation

Filipe Magalhães, fala—Violent Photographs, Frontal Drawings, and Exploded Negatives (or How Paper Covers Rock)

Ezabel Zhou—Machine-Eyed Person

200 pages, published Spring 2026.

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