The journal’s first issue explores the concept of texture and featured an interview with visual neuroscientist and artist Christopher Tyler, PhD (head of Smith-Kettlewell Brain Imaging Center, San Francisco), who discussed how texture is perceived in the brain, as well as 10 articles exploring texture through architecture, production, digital fabrications, poetry, and materiality. Other contributors included:

• Kostas Manolidis, associate professor of architecture at the University of Thessaly, Greece

• Alexander Milojevic, University of Aukland School of Architecture, winner of the New Zealand Institute of Architects student design competition

• William Haskas, founder of +FARM, Brooklyn and Perrysburg, New York

• Sou Fujimoto, architect, Tokyo, and Maureen Zell, associate dean at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning

• Alexandra Singer-Bieder and Sofia Bennani, winners of the 2014 Young Talent Prize, Africa Design Awards

• Jason Orbe-Smith, architect, Los Angeles, California

• Emmy Mikelson, artist and curator, Brooklyn, New York