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Else
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By Swap Office — A way of looking differently

Else does not offer solutions or finished thoughts. It practices a way of looking differently — at architecture, at history, at space. It records questions, shifts, and experiments, and invites others to search for what "Else" might mean.

Issues
Else Zine Issue 01 — Morphological reading of a typology cover
No. 01

Morphological reading of a typology

September – October 2025

A deep dive into Persian water reservoirs (āb-anbār). How form follows ritual — an excavation of the ordinary.

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Else Zine Issue 02 — Radical Margins cover, forensic diagram of architectural erasure
No. 02 Interactive

Radical Margins

June 2026

This issue rewires the history of architecture — 232 architects, 8 mechanisms of erasure. Updated over time.

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Else Zine Issue 03 — Performance/ Function
No. 03 It's Swap's 7th birthday!

Performance/ Function

October 2026

An inquiry into the difference between what things do and how they do it, and what happens when function and performance no longer coincide.

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