Archizines Catalogue Graphic Design By Benjamin Critton

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17 April – 9 June
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Nos. 1 – 80
Archizines celebrates the resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing. Edited by architects, artists, and students,
these eighty publications provide new platforms
for commentary, criticism, and research into the
spaces we inhabit and the practice of architecture. They make an important and often radical
addition to architectural discourse and demonstrate the residual love of the printed word and
paper page in the digital age.
I. Title & Issue
01 Pollen, No. 01
02New City Reader, No. 16—
Front
03P.E.A.R. : Paper for Emerging
Architectural Research,
No. 03—Sample & Synthesis
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¶
27 dérive, Nos. 40 / 41—
Understanding
Stadtforschung
28PISEAGRAMA, No. 03—
Playtime
52San Rocco, No. 02—The
Even Covering of the Field
76face b, No. 03—Back to
Basics
53Thresholds, No. 38—
Future
77 PIDGIN, No. 10
II. Format & Pages
01 297 × 420 , 20 pp.
34200 × 260, 252 pp.
67145 × 210 , 42 pp.
02420 × 600 , 4 pp.
35276 × 200 , 176 pp.
w/ insert.
68148 × 210 , 24 pp.
03289 × 400 , 48 pp.
54PLAT, No. 1.0
78 scopio, No. 1 1/3 —
Aboveground Architecture
55SPAM, Vol. 6
79City as Material, No. 01
05290 × 380 , 12 pp.
30Conditions, No. 08—
Preparing for the Unknown
56The Modernist, No. 02—
Brilliant
80Journal Illustratif, No. 0.5—
City / Trip
06290 × 360 , 44 pp.
31 Junk Jet, No. 04—
Statistics-of-Mystics!
57 Another Pamphlet, No. 02—
REPETITION!
07Megawords, No. 15
32MONU, No. 14—Editing
Urbanism
58 CLOG, No. 02—Apple
08archphoto 2.0, No. 01—
Radical City
33Ein Magazin über Orte,
No. 06—HOME
09On Site, No. 26—Dirt
34Bracket, No. 01—On Farming
10 Scapegoat, No. 01—Service
35VOLUME, No. 28—Internet
of Things
04The Unlimited Edition,
No. 02—Speculation
05Preston is my Paris : Preston
Bus Station
06Index Newspaper, No. 01
11 Anza, No. 01
12 Club Donny, No. 07
13 MAP : Manual of Architectural
Possibilities, No. 04—Floods
14 Mark, No. 36
15 Block, No. 01—The Modest
16 Evil People in Modernist
Homes in Popular Films, Vol. 1
17 Generalist, No. 04— Saving /
Sparen
18 Kerb, No. 19—Paradigms
of Nature: Post Natural
Futures
19 PLOT, No. 04—Arriving
Somewhere
20The Weather Ring, No. 04
21 Trans, No. 20—Relevanz
22What About It?, No. 01
23FAS : Foreign Architects
Switzerland, No. 01
24PIN-UP, No. 09—The
Los Angeles Issue
25PRAXIS, No. 09—Expanding
Surface
26Boundaries, No. 03
29Fresh Meat, Vol. IV—The
How-To Issue
36New Geographies, Vol. 03—
Urbanisms of Color
37 TOO MUCH, No. 02
38STUDIO©, No. 01
39SOILED, No. 02—
Skinscrapers
40Noz, No. 04
41 Candide, No. 04
42Apartamento, No. 08
¶ The editors of each publication
selected one issue to be
presented in the exhibition.
04285 × 390 , 16 pp.
07265 × 320 , 32 pp.
08224 × 315 , 46 pp.
09222 × 305 , 80 pp.
59Maximum Maxim MMX
10 289 × 428 , 28 pp.
60One : Twelve, Vol. 1; No. 03
11 297 × 420 , unknown.
61 Pablo Internacional—
Paisaje Inútil /
Useless Landscape /
Inútil Paisagem
12 210 × 297 , 36 pp.
6290X60, No. 03
63Archinect News Digest,
No. 01 —The Ai Weiwei Issue
64matzine, No. 08—Domestic
Exotic
65America Deserta Revisited, No. 03—Detroit
66engawa, No. 04
67Friendly Fire, No. 01—Das ist
Friendly Fire
13 105 × 297 , 2 pp.
14 230 × 297 , 224 pp.
15 190 × 297 , 54 pp.
16 292 × 381 , 24 pp.
17 210 × 297 , 70 pp.
18 210 × 297 , 130 pp.
19 232 × 297 , 240 pp.
20210 × 297 , 40 pp.
w/ A3 insert.
36254 × 203 , 184 pp.
37 182 × 257 , 100 pp.
38180 × 250 , 160 pp.
39189 × 246 , 116 pp.
40170 × 240 , 160 pp.
41 170 × 240 , 136 pp.
42170 × 240 , 224 pp.
43170 × 240 , 120 pp.
44170 × 240 , 176 pp.
45170 × 240 , 144 pp.
46160 × 235 , 135 pp.
47165 × 235 , 176 pp.
48150 × 230 , 144 pp.
49170 × 230 , 176 pp.
5090 × 155 , 194 pp.
51 152 × 228 , 140 pp.
52 170 × 230 , 200 pp.
53200 × 230 , 96 pp.
21 230 × 297 , 184 pp.
54160 × 222 , 152 pp.
68Public Library : Casa de Todos
22210 × 297 , 100 pp.
55170 × 220 , 72 pp.
44Le Journal Spéciale’Z, No. 02
69Sámi huksendáidda, No. 01—
For Beginners
23210 × 297 , 4 pp.
56170 × 220 , 24 pp.
45OASE, No. 81—Constructing
Criticism
70Touching on Architecture,
No. 01
24234 × 285 , 172 pp.
57 140 × 216 , 20 pp.
25 228 × 286 , 128 pp.
58 140 × 216 , 152 pp.
46Criticat, No. 07
71 UP, No. 08
26210 × 280 , 128 pp.
59140 × 215 , 68 pp.
47Log, No. 22—The Absurd
72 mono.kultur, No. 18—
MVRDV : On Statics and
Statistics
27 210 × 275 , 212 pp.
6095 × 147 , 24 pp.
28205 × 275 , 66 pp.
61 148 × 210 , 64 pp.
73 no now, No. 01—Towards an
Architecture of Opposition
29210 × 273 , 52 pp.
62140 × 215 , unknown.
30200 × 270 , 100 pp.
63140 × 216 , 30 pp.
31 190 × 270 , 88 pp.
64148 × 210 , 40 pp.
32200 × 270 , 132 pp.
65148 × 210 , 16 pp.
33210 × 270 , 84 pp.
66148 × 210 , 64 pp.
43Beyond, No. 01—Scenarios &
Speculations
48Horizonte, No. 03—
Re-Definition
49UR, No. 02—Conversar /
Conversing
50Cornell Journal of
Architecture, No. 08—RE
74Civic City Cahier, No. 03—
Distributed Agency, Design’s
Potentiality
51 MAS Context, No. 10—
Conflict
75 Camenzind, No. 08—The
Great Report from Paradise
A.
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69148 × 210 , 42 pp.
70148 × 210 , 34 pp.
71 148 × 210 , 10 pp.
72 150 × 200 , 44 pp.
73 101 × 127 , 24 pp.
74115 × 190 , 72 pp.
75 130 × 185 , 138 pp.
76130 × 180 , 160 pp.
77 170 × 240 , 256 pp.
78 120 × 160 , 159 pp.
7988 × 133 , 22 pp.
80190 × 125 , 28 pp.
§ Measured and indicated in
millimeters, width × height.
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III. Location & Date
A.
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01 Oslo, Norway. September, 2011.
26Rome, Italy. January, 2012.
51 Chicago, IL, United States.
Summer, 2011.
75 Zurich, Switzerland. January,
2011.
02New York, NY, United States.
January, 2011.
27 Vienna, Austria. October,
2010.
52Venice, Italy. Summer, 2011.
76Paris, France. November, 2010.
03London, United Kingdom. May,
2011.
28Belo Horizonte, Brazil. July,
2011.
53Cambridge, MA, United States.
February, 2011.
77 Princeton, NJ, United States.
April, 2011.
04London, United Kingdom.
September, 2011.
29Chicago, IL, United States.
Spring, 2011.
54Houston, TX, United States.
Autumn, 2010.
05Preston / London, United
Kingdom. October, 2010.
30Oslo, Norway. June, 2011.
55Santiago, Chile. November,
2008.
06Porto, Portugal. January, 2012.
31 Stuttgart, Germany. October,
2010.
07New York, NY, United States.
April, 2010.
32Rotterdam, Netherlands. April,
2011.
08Genova, Italy. Autumn, 2011.
33Berlin, Germany. Winter,
2009–10.
09Calgary, Canada. Autumn, 2011.
10 Toronto, Canada. Summer, 2011.
11 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 2011.
12 Amsterdam, Netherlands.
September, 2011.
13 Copenhagen, Denmark.
September, 2011.
14 Amsterdam, Netherlands.
February / March, 2012.
15 London, United Kingdom. June,
2010.
16 New Haven, CT, United States.
Summer, 2010.
17 Frankfurt, Germany. February,
2011.
18 Melbourne, Australia.
September, 2011.
19 Buenos Aires, Argentina. June,
2011.
20Perth, Australia. February, 2011.
21 Zurich, Switzerland. March,
2012.
22Beijing, China. February, 2011.
23Zurich, Switzerland. February,
2010.
56Manchester, United Kingdom.
September, 2011.
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78 Porto, Portugal. October, 2010.
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79London, United Kingdom.
February, 2011.
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39Print-on-Demand & Portable
Document Format.
80Brussels, Belgium. February,
2012.
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51 Print-on-Demand & Portable
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66Barcelona, Spain. January,
2011.
2250 Units & Portable
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67Porto, Portugal. April, 2011.
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44Paris, France. June, 2011.
68Santiago, Chile. October, 2011.
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45Rotterdam, Netherlands. July,
2010.
69Tromsø, Norway. Autumn, 2007.
254000 Units.
70London, United Kingdom. 2008.
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57 400 Units & Print-on-Demand
& Portable Document Format.
71 Antwerp / Brussels, Belgium.
August, 2009.
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35Amsterdam, Netherlands. July,
2011.
36Cambridge, MA, United States.
August, 2011.
37 Tokyo, Japan. July, 2011.
58 New York, NY, United States.
February, 2012.
59New York, NY, United States.
October, 2010.
60Columbus, OH, United States.
Spring, 2011.
61 Mexico City, Mexico & London,
United Kingdom. 2010.
38Milan, Italy. Winter, 2011.
62Guadalajara, Mexico.
November, 2011.
39Chicago, IL, United States.
Summer, 2011.
63Los Angeles, CA, United States.
July, 2011.
40Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. March,
2010.
64Dublin, Ireland & London,
United Kingdom. April, 2011.
41 Aachen, Germany. July, 2011.
65London, United Kingdom.
October, 2011.
42Barcelona, Spain. Autumn /
Winter, 2011–12.
43Amsterdam, Netherlands.
April, 2009.
46Paris, France. March, 2011.
47New York, NY, United States.
Spring / Summer, 2011.
48Weimar, Germany. April, 2011.
72 Berlin, Germany. Autumn,
2008.
24New York, NY, United States.
Autumn / Winter, 2010–11.
49Buenos Aires, Argentina.
November, 2007.
73 New York, NY, United States.
October, 2010.
25 Boston, MA, United States.
October, 2007.
50Ithaca, NY, United States.
January, 2011.
74London, United Kingdom.
March, 2011.
† Indicates release date of single
selected issue.
091000 Units.
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34Toronto, Canada. October,
2010.
57 New York, NY, United States.
August, 2011.
IV. Edition & Dist.
10 1000 Units & Portable
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V. Editor(s)
01 Arild Eriksen, Joakim Skajaa.
24Felix Burrichter.
02Joseph Grima, Kazys Varnelis,
Alan Rapp, John Cantwell,
Brigette Borders, Daniel Payne.
25Amanda Reeser, Ashley
Schafer, Andrew Colopy, Alayna
Fraser, Ben Gilmartin, Elizabeth
Stoel, Frederick Tang, Filip
Tejchman.
03Rashid Ali, Matthew Butcher,
Julian Krueger, Megan O’Shea,
Avni Patel.
26Luca Sampò.
04Oliver Goodhall, Holly Lewis.
27Christoph Laimer.
05Adam Murray, Robert
Parkinson.
28Fernanda Regaldo, Renata
Marquez, Roberto Andres,
Wellington Cançado.
06Amélia Brandão Costa, Rodrigo
da Costa Lima.
07Anthony Smyrski, Dan Murphy.
08Emanuele Piccardo.
09Stephanie White.
10 Adrian Blackwell, Adam
Bobbette, Jane Hutton, Marcin
Kedzior, Chris Lee, Christie
Pearson, Etienne Turpin.
11 Comfort Mosha, Comfort,
Badaru, Paul Bomani, Anitah
S. Hakika.
12 Frank Bruggeman, Ernst van
der Hoeven, Samira Ben Laloua.
13 David Garcia Studio.
14 Arthur Wortmann, David
Keuning.
15 Rob Wilson, Ed Wilson.
16 Benjamin Critton.
17 Björn Hekmati, Frank Metzger,
Insa Reichenau, Adeline Seidel.
18 Caitrin Daly, Sarah Hicks, Ricky
Ricardo, Adrian Keene.
19 Frederick Colella, Florencia
Rodriguez, Florence Medina,
Noelia Medina, Victoria
Pressler, Javier Agustin Rojas.
20Andrew Murray, Clare Wohlnick.
21 Siham Balutsch, Viviane
Ehrensberger, Steffen Hägele,
Yvonne Michel.
22Nathalie Frankowski, Cruz
Garcia.
23Anonymous.
29Alysen Hiller, Jayne Kelley,
Julia Sedlock, Matt Vander
Ploeg, Jacob Gay, Ivan
Ostapenko, John Clark.
30Tor Inge Hjemdal, Anders
Melsom, Joana Sa Lima.
31 Asli Serbest, Mona Mahall.
32Bernd Upmeyer, Beatriz Ramo.
33Elmar Bambach, Julia
Marquardt, Birgit Vogel.
34Mason White, Maya Przybylski.
35Archis (Arjen Oosterman, Lilet
Breddels, Jeroen Beekmans,
Joop de Boer, Timothy Moore,
Vincent Schipper), AMO (Rem
Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf),
C-Lab (Jeffrey Inaba, Benedict
Clouette).
36Gareth Doherty, Rania Ghosn,
El Hadi Jazairy, Antonio
Petrov, Stephen Ramos, Neyran
Turan.
A.
45Tom Avermaete, David de
Bruijn, Job Floris, Christoph
Grafe, Klaske Havik, Anne
Holtrop, Ruben Molendijk,
Véronique Patteeuw, Hans
Teerds, Gus Tielens, Tom
Vandeputte.
46Pierre Chabard, Valéry
Didelon, Martin Etienne,
Françoise Fromonot, Bernard
Marey.
47Cynthia Davidson, Tina Di
Carlo.
48Michael Kraus, David Bauer,
Dina Dorothea Dönch, Konrad
Lubej, Jonas Malzahn, Marco
Rüdel, Simon Scheithauer,
Martin Schmidt.
49Ariel Jacubovich, Sofía Picozzi,
Florencia Alvarez.
50Caroline O’Donnell.
51 MAS Studio.
52Matteo Ghidoni.
53Students at the MIT
Department of Architecture.
54Seanna Walsh, Marti Gottsch,
Erin Baer.
55Pablo Brugnoli, Kathryn
Gillmore.
56Jack Hale, Maureen Ward.
57 Giancarlo Valle, Isaiah King,
Ryan Neiheiser.
37 Yoshi Tsujimura, Audrey
Fondecave, Cameron Allan
McKean.
58 Kyle May, Julia van den Hout,
Jacob Reidel, Human Wu,
Margot Connor, Nancy Lin,
Carlos Velez.
38Romolo Roberto Calabrese.
59Mimi Zeiger.
39Joseph Altshuler.
60Greg Evans, Josh Kuhr.
40Caio Calafate.
61 Pablo León de la Barra.
41 Axel Sowa, Susanne
Schindler.
62Felipe Damian, Bernardo
Sanchez, Omar Marcial, Hector
Damian.
42Nacho Alegre, Omar Sosa,
Marco Velardi.
43Pedro Gadanho.
44Sony Devabhaktuni, Lamis
Mary Bayar, Franck Le Gac.
63Christian Chaudhari, Paul
Petrunia.
64Esme Fieldhouse.
65Tom Keeley.
66Alberto Twose, Carlos Vilar,
Toño Aller, Javier de las Heras,
Rubén Páez, Miguel Hernández,
Maía Pancorbo, Pedro Puertas,
Pablo Twose.
67Alexandra Areia, Ivo Pocas
Martins, Matilde Seabra, Pedro
Baia, Pedro Barata.
68Emilio Marin, Diego Córdov,
Cristobal Palma.
69Joar Nango.
70Sebastian Craig, Richard
Jones.
71 Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Kris.
Kimpe.
72 Kai von Rabenau.
73 Melissa J. Frost, Shannon M.
O’Neill.
74Jesko Fezer, Matthias Görlich.
75 Jeanette Beck, Benedikt
Boucsein, Axel Humpert, Tim
Seidel.
76Sébastien Martinez Barat,
Aurélien Gillier, Benjamin
Lafore.
77 Matthew Clarke, Brandon
Clifford, Margo Handwerker,
Ang Li, Enrique Ramirez,
Matthew Storrie.
78Pedro Leão Neto, Tiago
Casanova.
79Giles Lane, Hazem Tagiuri.
80Bart Van Overberghe, Anne
Catherine van Hövell.
VI. Description
01 Pollen is a fanzine about architecture and society published by
Eriksen Skajaa Architects. “The
goal of the magazine is to generate discussion about architecture
and the city, not only among
architects. We want the fanzine
to communicate clear ideas about
change in society.” The first issue,
addressing the theme of squatting
and urban planning, was launched
at the Oslo Architecture Festival
2011 with cover design by illustrators Grandpeople.
www.eriksenskajaa.no
02The New City Reader is a
newspaper on architecture, public
space and the city. It was originally conceived as a performancebased editorial residency for The
Last Newspaper, an exhibition at
the New Museum in New York in
2010, and will be repeated in different cities internationally. The
New City Reader takes the form of
normal broadsheet-sized papers.
www.newcityreader.net
03An architectural zine presenting work from a variety of contemporary architectural practices,
artists, researchers and individuals, P.E.A.R. aims to re-establish
the fanzine as a primary medium
for the dissemination of architectural ideas, musings, research and
works. Through its presentation of
a wide range of architectural discourses, P.E.A.R. seeks to present
the complexity and variety of contemporary architectural practices.
The zine was launched by editors
Rashid Ali, Matthew Butcher,
Julian Krueger and Megan O’Shea
with designer Avni Patel in 2009.
www.pearmagazine.eu
04The Unlimited Edition is a
super-local newspaper focused
purely on the street that connects the City of London to the
new Olympic Park in Stratford.
Against the backdrop of widespread change in the area, the
intention was to record and
explore the familiar high street
and to celebrate and speculate
on the possibilities that lie in
its future. Guest writers, artists,
urban designers and community
members were all invited to contribute creative snapshots of the
area and the papers were distributed for free from dedicated news
stands along the street. Published
by architecture and design studio We Made That, issue two was
co-edited with David Knight to
capture the aftermath of the 2011
London riots and the opening of a
vast new shopping centre in East
London. The next series of The
Unlimited Edition will focus on a
different geographic area.
www.wemadethat.co.uk
05Co-founded by Adam Murray
and Robert Parkinson in June
2009, Preston is my Paris began
as a photocopied zine focusing on
the city of Preston but has since
developed into a multi-faceted
photographic archive consisting
of 35 self-published works, live
events and digital applications
that address themes relating to
everyday life, underappreciated
places, architecture, identity and
the now. Preston Bus Station,
by Adam Murray and Robert
Parkinson with Jamie Hawkesworth
and Aidan Turner-Bishop, provides
a document of a weekend spent
in Preston’s arguably most iconic
building. “By focusing on the users
of the building and small architectural details, we aimed to produce
an alternative to previous projects
which tend to focus on the overall architectural structure. The
collaborative aspect in terms of
photographic approach is reflected
in the layout and combination of
images. By appropriating the vernacular print format of newsprint
we were able to produce a photographic publication that was both
affordable and accessible to all
audiences.”
www.prestonismyparis.
blogspot.com
06Published on newsprint, Index
Newspaper is a trimonthly magazine of architecture with English
and Portuguese text and a front
cover designed by an invited artist. The first issue was launched
by Rodrigo da Costa Lima and
Amélia Brandão Costa in 2012.
“We want Index Newspaper to go
beyond printing. The first issue
is the starting point of an idea
for a publication and a way for
unexpected happenings and open
discussion.”
www.indexnewspaper.info
07The mission of Megawords
magazine is “to document our
surroundings and experience, to
B.
have a voice free from the noise
of commercialization and competing novelties, and to create an
open and active dialogue between
Megawords and the community.”
As well as self-publishing the
magazine since 2005, founders
Anthony Smyrski and Dan Murphy
exhibit in galleries and museums
across the United States, and
organize events and performances
under the banner of Megawords.
www.megawordsmagazine.com
08archphoto 2.0 is a revised,
printed version of the website
archphoto.it—a webzine founded
in 2002 by Emanuele Piccardo
and Luca Mori as a critical review
of architecture in connection
with visual arts, social sciences
and related disciplines. Both the
website and the publication aim
to coexist and complement each
other. The theme of archphoto 2.0
No. 01: Radical City revisits 1960s
Italian Radical Architecture, using
the political and cultural context as
a departure point. The bold graphic
design is a tribute to the counterculture magazines of this era.
www.archphoto.it
09Founded in 2000, On Site is
a bi-annual publication on architecture, urbanism, landscape,
material culture and infrastructure published by a non-profit
group Architectural Fieldwork and
edited by Stephanie White. “On
Site started as a response to
the atomization of architectural
discussion in Canada—no one
really knows much about what is
happening in other parts of the
country, and also in response to
the work that Canadian architects
do outside the country that we
rarely hear about.” Each issue has
a theme chosen from an everyday
social concern. Recent issues have
included Streets, Water, Weather,
Museums and Archives, War, Small
Things, Migration and Identity.
www.onsitereview.ca
10 Scapegoat, launched in 2010
with No. 00: Property, examines
the relationship between capitalism and the built environment,
confronting the coercive and
violent organization of space,
the exploitation of labor and
resources, and the unequal distribution of environmental risks
and benefits. “As we witness
the exacerbation of the latest
global economic crisis, increasing
demands for a program of global
austerity to ‘save capitalism,’
and the confrontations that arise
from these intolerable conditions,
architecture and landscape have
been called on to manifest a new
iconography for a collapsing civil
society. Scapegoat responds: in
the service of what future will our
designs take form? To challenge
the anodyne image of ‘Service’, we
require a reappraisal of politicaleconomic power and the place
of design as a practice of social
reproduction.”
www.scapegoatjournal.org
11 Anza (Swahili for ‘start’) is an
architecture magazine for East
Africa. The publication consists of
articles, interviews and photography that seek to explore the transformation of East African cities—
and their identities—by looking
at the past, present, and future
with fun, seriousness and humor.
The first issue was produced during a four-week workshop that had
been initiated and organized by
the Swiss architectural magazine
Camenzind and hosted by the
Goethe Institute in Dar es Salaam.
www.anzastart.com
www.camenzindeastafrica.org
12 Club Donny is a strictly unedited journal on the personal
experience of nature in the urban
environment. It was established in
2008 by Samira Ben Laloua, Frank
Bruggeman and Ernst van der
Hoeven and is published biannually. The editors invite participants
to share their personal experience
on nature in cities from all over
the world. “Due to global urbanization, most people consider the city
as their natural environment, the
perception of the city and nature
has been changed. With Club
Donny we offer a platform that
aims to bring into the limelight
observations, coincidences, stories
and encounters of the obvious and
sometimes absurd existence of
nature in cities.” In addition to the
magazine, Club Donny sees itself
as a club in the sense of a ‘glocal’ community where people from
all over the world can gather and
share their images and stories on
local nature in a free and democratic way.
www.clubdonny.com
VI. Description
13 Published twice a year by
David Garcia Studio, MAP presents
itself as a folded A1 poster where
information is immediate, dense
and objective on one side, and
architectural and subjective on the
other. MAP is “a guide to potential
actions in the built environment,
a folded encyclopedia of the possible, a topography of ideas, or a
poster on the wall’. Issue No. 4
deals with the spatial implications
of flooding with projects in the
Netherlands, Italy, the USA and
the Maldives”
www.map.davidgarciastudio.com
14 Mark was launched in 2005
with three guiding principles: the
first is a radically international
perspective; the second is viewing
the magazine as a visual medium;
the third is the attempt to escape
jargon and academicism. “The
magazine sets out to seduce and
enchant, and address the visual
intelligence of today’s reader.”
With a strong focus on image and
aesthetics, the bi-monthly magazine is more closely aligned to the
style press than traditional architectural publishing and presents
itself as alternative in this way.
www.mark-magazine.com
15 Block is a magazine for writing—review, reflection, story,
poem or polemic—on architecture, built space and the city and
its representation or exploration
through sketch, photograph, drawing and graphic image. Launched
by Rob Wilson and Ed Wilson, and
designed by Ellie and Katya Duffy,
Block aims to present architecture’s reflection across a wider
field of contemporary culture, and
its place within it. Each issue is
themed and the content combines
documentary, commentary, opinion
and critique, the fictional and the
imaginary. “This launch issue feels
like a statement of intent for the
magazine as a whole, establishing
an initial marker for its content,
structure, format and feel.”
www.blockmagazine.co.uk
16 Benjamin Critton launched
Evil People in Modernist Homes
in Popular Films (E.P.i.M.H.i.P.F.)
as an annual zine while studying graphic design at the Yale
School of Art. Printed on archival
newsprint in red and yellow ink,
E.P.i.M.H.i.P.F. offers a serious but
B.
(Cont’d)
lighthearted investigation of the
representation of modernist architecture in popular film, reflecting
on the convention of associating
evil characters and events with
modern buildings, and also, more
generally, on the relation between
cinema and architecture. A series
of film stills, quotes and accompanying texts point to examples
in The Damned Don’t Cry (1950),
Diamonds are Forever (1971),
Blade Runner (1982), Body Double
(1984), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989),
L.A. Confidential (1997), The Big
Lebowski (1998), and Twilight
(2008).
www.benjamincritton.com
www.surplusurplusurplus.com
17 Launched in 2008 to discuss
and popularize current debates
as well as practical and theoretical trends in architecture, urban
design and other related professions, Generalist seeks to provide
broad, multidisciplinary editorial
content. The magazine combines
different professional perspectives on specific subjects that
annotate current tendencies and
developments, and deals with a
variety of topics and questions
reaching beyond the confined
fields that architectural magazines usually cover. Published with
English and German text, editors
Björn Hekmati, Frank Metzger,
Insa Reichenau and Adeline Seidel
require all contributions, whether
analysis, interpretation or a particular position, to be structured
as open discussions. Responding
to the current economic climate,
the fourth issue of Generalist
offers different responses to ‘saving’ in architecture, design and
the urban realm.
www.generalist.in
18 Kerb is a landscape architecture journal produced by students
from RMIT University. The journal
is an annual publication edited
each year by a new team of students who curate a collection of
projects and articles relevant to
topical themes. A total restructure
in 2010 provided a new level of
focus and identity for the journal.
Kerb No. 19 is the first issue to be
produced under this new model
and explores how the development
of bio-technological possibilities
will shape the way we create landscapes where the city environment
could transform into a dynamic,
interactive organism of limitless
potential.
www.kerb19.com
19 PLOT is a platform for disseminating contemporary architectural
practice and thinking. Launched in
2010 by a collective of architects
and academics, the publication
set out to offer new opportunities for architectural criticism and
commentary from Latin America.
“PLOT is idealistic. We are interested in discourse regarding the
history, theory and criticism, technology, communications and science, aesthetics, social responsibility and politics.” After a year of
publishing, issue No. 04 shows how
PLOT has matured and defined its
identity. “Through feedback from
architects, editors, friends and
students, we are beginning to feel
part of a big community. We are
committed to represent different
voices and to show Latin American
production alongside that of the
rest of the world.”
www.revistaplot.com.ar
20The Weather Ring is a journal
that explores architecture and
design in Western Australia. It was
launched by Andrew Murray and
Clare Wohlnick out of an interest
in the uncharted histories, stories
and work from the state: “Through
our investigations we hope to contribute to the understanding of our
design history. We feel the fourth
issue is moving closer to what
we aimed for when we began the
magazine. It contains new work
by practices that have rarely been
published, and interviews with
designers involved with projects we
feel need to be discussed. It also
has the best jokes on the cover.”
www.theweatherring.
wordpress.com
21 Trans is a semi-annual professional journal of the Department
of Architecture at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology
ETHZ run by an independent student editorial team since 1997. The
journal sees itself as a platform
for interdisciplinary discourse
and addresses current issues in
architecture and urban development from the perspective of the
humanities, politics, philosophy
and the arts. The editorial staff is
composed of four editors, all
undergraduate or graduate
architecture students. They
are responsible for all stages
of producing and managing the
journal, from setting a theme to
acquiring advertisements and
sponsors, and layout and design.
Themes for recent issues have
included Participation, Politics,
Composition and Relevance.
www.trans.ethz.ch
22What About It?, also known as
WAIzine, is a “graphic narrative in
magazine format” that presents
the ideas, projects, and research
from WAI Architecture Think
Tank’s Nathalie Frankowski and
Cruz Garcia, currently based in
Beijing. It is aimed to serve as a
platform through which questions
are asked, ideas are diffused, and
discussions are initiated. What
About It? includes critical and theoretical texts, research projects,
narrative architectures, and architectural and urban experiments
that have been developed by WAI.
The first issue is also available as
a free download online.
www.wai-architecture.com
23Foreign Architects Switzerland
(FAS) is a zine dedicated to filling
the gaps of theoretical and political dialogue in the Swiss architectural community. FAS is meant as
a platform for ideas, projects and
people that remain illegitimate to
the “brain-dead, incestuous architectural media” of Switzerland.
The anonymous editors organize
competitions and calls for ideas
published in the zine. The first
issue set out the FAS manifesto,
launched the WTF award and, in
reaction to the Swiss minaret ban,
called for an open competition for
a mosque in Zurich to prove that
architects can, and should, be
political. FAS is posted as a hard
copy to 200 architecture offices,
institutions and newspapers in and
out of Switzerland. The number of
publications is restricted; people
requesting to be added to the mailing list replace an existing address.
www.faszine.blogspot.com
24PIN-UP is a bi-annual
‘Magazine for Architectural
Entertainment’ launched by architect and writer Felix Burrichter
while he was working at a corporate architecture firm in New York
City. Through interviews, essays
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and photography, PIN-UP features
a mix of established and emerging
architects, artists, and designers
from around the world. A 2010 residency at the MAK Center resulted
in a special Los Angeles issue
that celebrated the modern to the
kitsch, and included commissions
for new case study houses by four
experimental architects. The scope
of PIN-UP now extends beyond the
publication itself to curating exhibitions and hosting events.
www.pinupmagazine.org
25 Founded by architects, the first
issue of PRAXIS was published in
2000. The annual journal focuses
exclusively on projects designed by
an American architect or built in
the Americas with an ambition to
consider prominent design issues
through the relation of contemporary projects, emerging building
technologies, history, design, and
theory. “We strive to increase
awareness of lesser-known work by
publishing it alongside more established work. We seek out emerging architectural practices; firms
located beyond the media centers
of New York and Los Angeles; and
others whose work tests conventional disciplinary boundaries.”
www.praxisjournal.net
26Boundaries is concerned
with innovative, less-known and
emerging architecture and urban
research. A call for articles is
announced for each issue on a
particular theme. “The border in
Boundaries has nothing to do with
the political frontier; it is that
line that the imagination continuously moves a bit further beyond
the horizon, that pushes us to set
forth, that speaks about invention,
about discovery. It has nothing
to do with the idea of limit; it is
rather an invitation: it is the line
that divides only to join together,
that enhances the differences so
that it may be possible to set up a
true dialogue.”
www.boundaries.it
27 dérive is an international interdisciplinary journal focusing on
urbanism that has been published
quarterly in Vienna since 2000
by an independent group of artists, researchers and writers. The
magazine juxtaposes sociology
and architecture, architecture and
art, art and politics, politics and
(Cont’d)
geography, geography and urban
planning, planning and philosophy,
philosophy and economics—and
vice versa. Most issues focus on a
specific theme explored by experts
from a number of perspectives
and feature urban projects, town
portraits, interviews, articles on
the history of urban life, critical reviews and unique artwork.
Articles are written in German
and/or English, with over 400 contributors—from young scientists
to well established, internationally-acclaimed authors—publishing more than 1000 articles and
reviews in its first decade.
www.derive.at
28PISEAGRAMA is published
bimonthly and distributed for free
throughout Brazil under a Creative
Commons License. The magazine
is dedicated to public space, both
existing and imagined, and relies
on essays, short texts, images,
videos or hybrid works in order to
approach contemporary culture
from different angles. It aims to
broaden the transformative power
of art and architecture and inject
imagination into politics. “The
third issue presents non-technicist
and non-functionalist occupations
of public space, playing and playful practices, pauses and breaks
in space and time, the (im)possibilities of childhood in the city,
records of collective experiences
and memories.”
www.piseagrama.org
29Fresh Meat is the student publication of the University of Illinois
at Chicago, School of Architecture.
Run entirely by students, it is a
vehicle to further the dialogue
of the school—among students,
between students and faculty,
and between the school and outside voices. Operating through
both digital platforms and printed
media, Fresh Meat curates conversations to explore the role of
architecture in today’s world. “We
make them available for you to do
with as you please: to think on,
to talk about, to design with. Feel
free to take them and run, misread and butcher. After all, they
are only ideas…”
www.freshmeatjournal.org
30Conditions, launched in 2009,
is a magazine focusing on the
conditions of architecture and
B.
urbanism in Scandinavia. The editors seek to present new perspectives for conceiving and analyzing
architectural designs, works and
theory through regular calls for
submissions. “It is organized in
a fluctuating network of agents
reflecting the present globalized
state of a dynamic society, economics, politics and culture, which
are the motivators of architecture.
Through a play of thoughts in an
open-ended forum, predefined
‘facts’ will be unsecured and constantly reinvented. The forum will
gather the architect, client, politician and the public, a communion
of ideas creating conditions for
evolution.” The magazine is published four times a year.
www.conditionsmagazine.com
31 Junk Jet is conceived as a
‘zine-jet’, a collaborative format
set up to discuss speculative
works on topics of architecture,
media, aesthetics and electronics. It is an irregular publication (including irrational special
gifts) on a non-commercial scale
edited by Asli Serbest and Mona
Mahall and published by their
own igmade.edition. Junk Jet is
interested in “counter works (and
counter counter works) of counter
aesthetics, tunneling practices
that show lack of any irony or
fiction. It is about wild forms and
found objects, about weird theories and (small) narratives, antifashions and non-styles, about
exploring do-it-yourself works,
accidental outcomes, deviant and
normal aesthetic forms that result
from jammed common practices,
misused media, and subverted
customary tools.” Recent themed
issues include Statistics-ofMystics!, Speculative-Architecture!
and Noise-and-Failure!
www.junkjet.net
32MONU is a bi-annual international forum for artists, writers
and designers who are working on
topics of urban culture, development and politics. Each issue collects essays, projects and photographs from contributors from all
over the world providing a variety
of perspectives on a given topic. It
was launched in 2004 as a small,
stapled together, black and white
publication. Overseen by editor-inchief Bernd Upmeyer together with
his Rotterdam-based Bureau of
Architecture, Research, and Design
(BOARD) and managing editor
Beatriz Ramo, MONU now provides a platform for comparative
urban analysis, with contributions
from Tokyo, Thailand, Detroit, Los
Angeles, London and other cities.
www.monu-magazine.com
33Ein Magazin über Orte (A
Magazine About Places) is a monothematic magazine which deals
with a different location in every
issue. The magazine collects works
of various authors in the form
of photographs, drawings, paintings and texts and is published
twice a year. The Home issue tells
different stories about the way
people are living today and the
spaces they inhabit. Published
and designed by Elmar Bambach,
Julia Marquardt and Birgit Vogel
since 2007, other issues include
Kitchen, Desk, Crime Scene, Park,
and Berlin.
www.orte-magazin.de
34Bracket is a new annual series
structured around an open call for
entries that highlights emerging
critical issues at the juncture of
architecture, environment and digital culture. Conceived as an almanac, the series looks at emerging
thematics in our global age that
are shaping the built environment
in radically significant, yet often
unexpected ways. The first issue
looks at the capacity for architecture to address ideas and issues
of productive landscapes and
urbanisms. Bracket is produced as
a collaboration between InfraNet
Lab and Archinect, and published
by Actar.
www.brkt.org
35Launched in 2005, VOLUME is
“an independent quarterly magazine that sets the agenda for architecture and design.” It is produced
as a collaboration between Archis
(Arjen Oosterman, Lilet Breddels,
Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer,
Timothy Moore, Vincent Schipper),
AMO (Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de
Graaf), C-Lab (Jeffrey Inaba,
Benedict Clouette) and other external partners. “By going beyond
architecture’s definition of ‘making
buildings,’ it reaches out for global
views on designing environments,
advocates broader attitudes to
social structures, and reclaims the
cultural and political significance
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of architecture. Created as a global
idea platform to voice architecture
any way, anywhere, anytime, it
represents the expansion of architectural territories and the new
mandate for design.” VOLUME was
created as a continuation of Archis
magazine which launched in 1986,
which again is a continuation of
Wonen / TABK, formed in turn from
two magazines dating from 1946
and 1929.
www.volumeproject.org
36New Geographies is a journal
of design, agency and territory,
produced by doctoral candidates at the Harvard University
Graduate School of Design since
2008. New Geographies aims to
examine the emergence of the
geographic, a new but for the most
part latent paradigm in design
today—to articulate it and bring
it to bear effectively on the social
role of design. Through critical
essays and design projects, New
Geographies seeks to position
design’s agency amidst concerns
of scale, infrastructure, ecology,
and globalization. Vol. 3 brings
together artists and designers,
anthropologists, geographers,
historians, and philosophers with
the aim of exploring the potency,
the interaction, and the neglected
design possibilities of color at the
scale of the city.
www.gsd.harvard.edu/
newgeographies
37 TOO MUCH, a magazine about
‘romantic geography’, is made by
international writers and photographers with a Japanese design
team. As the world enters an era
of widespread urbanization, TOO
MUCH gathers thoughts about
cities, the people who live in
them, and the effects they have
on societies and our environment.
The magazine also reports on
migrations in and between cities, and the impact this has on
race, nationality, language, tradition and customs. Issue No. 2 of
TOO MUCH—a response to the
recent catastrophic earthquake
in Japan—looks at experiences
related to rebuilding, relocating,
shelter building and the construction of ideal cities.
www.toomuchmagazine.com
38Based in Milan, STUDIO© is
an independent magazine about
B.
(Cont’d)
the contemporary urban condition published by RCC Studio
Architects. Each issue is conceived as a collection of writings, commentaries, reportages,
photographic galleries, films and
videos on urban topics following a
call for papers. The launch issue
reflects on the impact of economic
crisis on urban landscapes and
the opportunity this provides for
metamorphosis. “The Greek krísis
means decision, a turning point;
a condition of instability or danger leading to a decisive change:
the necessary one to re-think,
re-write, and re-use architecture
either on the physical territory or
on the theoretical one.”
www.rrcstudio.com/
studiomagazine
39Operating at the interstices
of architecture, urbanism and the
pedosphere, SOILED is a venue for
dialogue and exploration. It investigates the role that the built environment plays in social issues of
earthly but marginalized proportions; it documents hidden systems and in-between spaces. The
editor-in-chief Joseph Altshuler
and editorial team curate ideas,
from the arable to the obscene, by
seeking the active participation
of multi-disciplinary contributors.
SOILED employs narratives, manifestos, mappings, ephemera and
live events to mediate its architectural discourse to the broader
public. By focusing on the surface
of the skin as a natural mediator,
Skinscrapers navigates a continuum of scale, starting inside the
gut, proceeding to the contours of
the body, and culminating in the
anthropomorphic city. SOILED is
published twice per year on each
solstice.
www.soiled.cartogram.org
40Noz was launched in 2007 by
students at PUC-Rio (Pontifícia
Universidade Católica of Rio de
Janeiro) with the involvement of
teachers from various departments. The magazine aims to
broaden the fields of architecture
and urbanism by encompassing
a broad range of concerns that
relate to cities, people, image and
construction. Articles, interviews,
projects and essays reflect critically on the connections between
architecture and art, cinema,
graphic and product design,
literature, philosophy and urban
issues. Parallel to the publications, events are organized around
the themes covered in each issue,
such as lectures, film sessions and
debates.
www.revistanoz.com
41 Candide, Journal for
Architectural Knowledge was
founded at the Department for
Architecture Theory, RWTH Aachen
University, Germany in 2009 to
explore the culture of knowledge
specific to architecture. The peerreviewed journal is published twice
a year in German and English.
Inspired by Voltaire’s fictional
character Candide, who travelled
the eighteenth-century world in
an eager but often disappointed
search for knowledge, the journal’s
editors, Axel Sowa and Susanne
Schindler, have embarked on a
21st century search for architectural knowledge. Each issue is
made up of five distinct sections
that “respond to the diversity of
architectural knowledge being produced, while challenging authors
of all disciplines to test a variety of genres to write about and
represent architecture.” Graphic
designer Katja Gretzinger reconsiders the design of each issue,
renegotiating a new form (type, orientation, paper) and its underlying
assumptions and reasoning. The
first three issues were published by
Transcript. Issue No. 4 is the first
issue to be published by Actar.
www.candidejournal.net
42Apartamento features photography, essays and discussions
about the spaces people occupy.
The first issue was launched in
April 2008 as “a magazine interested in homes, living spaces and
design solutions as opposed to
houses, photo ops and design dictatorships.” As well as publishing
the magazine twice a year, directors Nacho Alegre and Omar Sosa
and editor-in-chief Marco Velardi
create projects and events at the
Salone de Mobile in Milan, London
Design Festivals and other cities.
www.apartamentomagazine.com
43Beyond: Short Stories on the
Post-Contemporary is dedicated
to new, experimental forms of
architectural and urban writing. Conceived by editor-in-chief
Pedro Gadanho as a ‘bookazine’,
it includes contributions from an
extended network of young and
upcoming European architectural writers who are given the
freedom to survey the outline of
themes and things to come. The
first issue set the series’ agenda
of focusing on the near future.
While subsequent themes were
broader in philosophical implications, Scenarios and Speculations
addressed the way in which fiction
and other experimental forms of
architectural writing can help us
envisage and reflect upon possibilities for architecture and
the coming city. The first three
issues were published by SUN
Architecture. www.sunarchitecture.nl/
custom/beyond.html
44Published twice a year by the
Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in
Paris, Le Journal Spéciale’Z looks
at architecture, art and urbanism, bringing together academic
research, interviews, commentary,
narrative and projects. The journal favors emerging voices and
original, critical investigations.
It is structured around thematic
questions announced in monthly,
open calls for submissions. Recent
themes include The Destination,
Resistance, Number and Revisiting
the Vernacular.
www.specialez.fr
45OASE is an independent peerreviewed journal that brings
together academic discourse and
the sensibilities of design practice. Three thematic issues are
published each year. Originally
launched in 1983 by the architectural students at the Delft Faculty,
OASE is published since 2003 by
NAi Publishers reaching a new,
international audience. The editors—Tom Avermaete, David de
Bruijn, Job Floris, Christoph Grafe,
Klaske Havik, Anne Holtrop, Ruben
Molendijk, Véronique Patteeuw,
Hans Teerds, Gus Tielens, Tom
Vandeputte—insist on the discussion of the historical and theoretical aspects of contemporary
design issues, bridging the gap
between theory and practice. OASE
No. 81 offers both theoretical arguments concerning the limits and
the domain of criticism, opinions
on the role of architecture criticism and identifies potential fields
of action while offering tentative
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explorations of criticism in practice. NAi Publishers also issues
the Berlage Institute’s Hunch since
2009 and SKOR’s Open since 2004.
www.oasejournal.nl
46Launched by Pierre Chabard,
Valéry Didelon, Martin Etienne,
Françoise Fromonot and Bernard
Marey in 2008 as a space for
reflection on architecture independent from institutions, Criticat is a
critical review of architecture. The
editors believe that since architecture enjoys a privileged position at
the heart of politics, society and
economics, describing and examining architecture and its issues is
a way to critique the world that
builds it. To remain independent,
Criticat was formed as an association and relies on support from its
readership. Criticat is sold by mail
order from its website.
www.criticat.fr
47Log is a journal for new architectural writing and criticism. A
compendium of essays, conversations and short observations
on contemporary buildings and
trends, Log eschews the visual
culture of the moment in favour of
determined forays into the critical
and cultural implications of the
discipline. Recent topics include:
the necessity of the metacritique
in architecture; burgeoning urbanism in Dubai; lying with images;
and unanswerable questions posed
by signature buildings. Log is published three times a year.
www.anycorp.com
48Students at the BauhausUniversität Weimar launched
their own architecture journal in
2010 loosely based on the weekly
lectures at the student initiative Horizonte. With interviews,
essays, photography and projects,
each issue addresses one singular subject. The journal’s focus is
on questions that pertain to the
relationship between architecture
and society and provides a platform for discussing current architectural topics from a student’s
perspective, alongside publishing
works of established professionals,
theorists and practitioners alike.
Published twice a year, Horizonte:
Journal for Architectural Discourse
is an interdisciplinary and collaborative effort between the faculties of architecture, design and
B.
(Cont’d)
media studies and is set up as an
independent student organization.
www.m18.uni-weimar.de/
horizonte
49Conceived by architect Ariel
Jacubovich, Sofía Picozzi and
Florencia Alvarez, UR attempts
to expand the discourse and the
possibilities of architecture by
making visible certain contemporary points of view and forms
of production that intersect in
Buenos Aires. “It is a collection
of projects, works and processes
which, when grouped together, give
rise to a new reading.” Themed
issues in English and Spanish connect projects and the people who
participate in them to broader
cultural issues. Launched in 2006,
the editorial team is currently
considering its future direction. www.ur-arquitectura.com.ar
50The Cornell Journal of
Architecture is a critical journal of architecture and urbanism produced by editors in the
Department of Architecture at
the College of Architecture, Art
and Planning, Cornell University.
Established in 1981, the journal
was relaunched in 2011 after a
decade’s absence as an annual
publication with editor-in-chief
Caroline O’Donnell. It forms a
locus for critical discussions emanating from the study of architecture at Cornell. In addition
to an open call, student editors
solicit texts and drawings from a
range of disciplines and locations
both inside and outside Cornell
University, centered around a specific theme. At the heart of issue
No. 8—RE is the understanding that the creative act itself
is reiterative; that in rethinking,
recombining, reshuffling, recycling,
and reimagining aspects of the
world around us, we produce work
that both belongs to the current
moment and establishes new
future trajectories.
www.cornelljournalof
architecture.cornell.edu
51 MAS Context is a quarterly
journal, launched by MAS Studio
in 2009, that addresses issues
affecting the urban context. Its
aim is to provide a comprehensive
view of a topic by the active participation of people from different
fields and different perspectives;
to instigate the debate. Published
four times per year, every issue
is centred on a single topic. With
a global approach and reach, it
is a platform of discussion and
collaboration where relevant proposals, ideas and experiences are
shared to help advance the design
field. Topics are approached
through different communication
techniques, such as essays, photographs, diagrams, interviews and
case studies. The journal is currently available online, as a free
downloadable PDF, and as a printon-demand publication.
www.mascontext.com
52 San Rocco was launched in
2010 as “a magazine about architecture” and takes its name from
an unrealized competition entry
by Giorgio Grassi and Aldo Rossi
in 1971. The magazine, designed
with a strong black-and-white
identity, has a limited life of five
years and will publish no more
than 20 issues. The editors publish a call for papers for each
issue and contributions can take
the form of essays, illustrations,
designs, comic strips or fiction.
The second issue investigates
the aesthetic consequences of the
field, from both urban and architectural perspectives. Upcoming
issues include Scary Architects,
666 Ways To Be a Communist
Architect, and Fuck Concepts!
Context! “San Rocco is written
by architects. As such, San Rocco
is not particularly intelligent, or
philologically accurate.”
www.sanrocco.info
53Thresholds is a journal edited
by students at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Department
of Architecture. Reflecting the
department’s interdisciplinary
nature with foci in architecture,
art, design, urbanism, history and
technology, Thresholds publishes
scholarly and project-based work
that revolves around an independent theme chosen for each issue.
Topics covered in the Future issue
include anti-Taylorisation art,
golf landscapes, and the history
of Lenin’s dead body. Launched
originally in 1992 as a curated
collection of essays and projects,
Thresholds was relaunched in its
current format as an annual peerreviewed journal in 2009.
www.thresholds.mit.edu
54PLAT is a student-directed
journal published out of the Rice
School of Architecture. It aims
to shift architectural discourse
by stimulating new relationships
between design, production and
theory. Launched in 2010, PLAT
operates by interweaving student,
faculty, and professional work
into an open and evolving dialogue which progresses from issue
to issue. Editors Seanna Walsh,
Marti Gottsch and Erin Baer invite
international submissions for the
bi-annual issues to serve as a projective catalyst for architectural
discourse.
www.platjournal.com
55SPAM magazine is focused on
being a tool of critical analysis
of the new spatial relationships
that are being generated and
their encounter with the social
and political changes of the current city. SPAM is defined by editor Pablo Brugnoli and designer
Kathryn Gillmore as “an experimental course, without precise
destination of the route, watching
as a process of experimentation,
the movement of the city, its services, contacts and activities.”
The magazine seeks to create an
environment of open discussion,
without attempting to represent
and build an institutional policy. It
is committed to a vision of multiplicity and diversity with contributions from Chile and abroad. Vol.
6 was co-published with Roulette
Magazine.
www.spam.cl
56The Modernist, published quarterly by the Manchester Modernist
Society, was launched in June
2011 as “a quarterly magazine
about twentieth century design.”
It combines the D.I.Y. ethos of the
society with a design influenced by
the modern graphics and typography of the postwar period. Under
the editorship of Jack Hale and
Maureen Ward, the magazine publishes contributions that share an
affection for the twentieth-century
built environment and modern,
brutalist architecture.
www.the-modernist-mag.co.uk
57 Another Pamphlet was
launched by Isaiah King, Ryan
Neiheiser and Giancarlo Valle in
2011 as “a conversation, a loose
exchange of forms and ideas, an
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excuse to play, a frame through
which to look, a shared excitement. It is an open dialogue with
our friends, our histories, and our
surroundings.” Each submission
is limited to 300 words and one
image. The A5 zine is self-printed,
folded and stapled. The second
issue of Another Pamphlet considers the possibilities of repetition—to order, to interrogate, to
produce, to reveal, to obfuscate,
and to change. Six issues of the
zine will be produced each year.
www.anotherpamphlet.com
58 CLOG was launched as a
response to the speed at which
architectural imagery is distributed and consumed online. “While
an unprecedented amount of
work is available to the public,
the lifespan of any single design
or topic has been reduced in the
profession’s collective consciousness to a week, an afternoon, a
single post—an endlessly changing architecture du jour. In the
deluge, excellent projects receive
the same fleeting attention as
mediocre ones. Meanwhile, mere
exposure has taken the place of
thoughtful engagement, not to
mention a substantive discussion.”
Launched in 2011, each issue of
CLOG explores a single subject
particularly relevant to contemporary architecture; it does so from
multiple viewpoints and through
a variety of means, succinctly, on
paper, away from the distractions
and imperatives of the screen.
www.clog-online.com
59Maximum Maxim MMX is a fanzine from Mimi Zeiger, editor of the
ongoing New York-based zine project Loud Paper, and is “maximized
with maxims germane to architecture and publishing. The popularity
of the aphorism, a short, memorable, often pithy statement, goes
hand in hand with the invention of
printing. Throughout the 18th, 19th,
and 20th centuries, aphorisms and
maxims were published globally in
thick, bound collections. Although
print remains precarious in a digital age, the aphoristic statement
lives on. According to Oscar Wilde:
‘In the old days books were written
by men of letters and read by the
public. Now books are written by
the public and read by nobody.’ ”
Maximum Maxim MMX was first
presented at Storefront for Art
B.
(Cont’d)
and Architecture’s Book Launch
Cabaret to celebrate The Studio-X
NY Guide to Liberating New Forms
of Conversation (GSAPP Books,
2010).
www.loudpaper.typepad.com
60One:Twelve is a self-funded,
student-run magazine at Ohio
State University. It was launched
by Greg Evans and Josh Kuhr to
provide a cohesive student voice
that connects the disciplines of
architecture, landscape architecture and planning at the Knowlton
School of Architecture to the campus community and the broader
discourse. “As a student collaborative searching for the voice of the
Knowlton School of Architecture,
One:Twelve is aimed at collecting
the provocative ideas and intensities of the School’s environment
into a raw, dynamic platform of
expression and analysis. Through
the sharing of theories, experiences, and culture, One:Twelve
becomes the voice of the students
across physical and disciplinary
boundaries, offering an intimate
dialogue between local and even
global communities.”
www.ksacommunity.osu.edu/
group/onetwelve
61 Pablo León de la Barra’s zine
was launched in 2005 with the
tagline ‘macho not rough: art,
men and architecture’. The issues
have consistently brought together
articles and photography on architecture, art and sexuality, with a
focus on Latin American culture.
Special editions are produced to
accompany exhibitions including
Paisaje Inútil / Useless Landscape
/ Inútil Paisagem: A notebook on
cities and places, commissioned
by the 2da Trienal Poli/Gráfica
de San Juan: América Latina y el
Caribe, organized by El Instituto
de Cultura Puertorriqueña.
This issue uses photography to
compare streets and buildings
from cities across the Americas
including Acapulco, Bogotá, Cali,
Caracas, Guadalajara, Guatemala,
Los Angeles, La Habana, Ciudad
de México, Panamá, Recife, Rio de
Janeiro, Salvador, San Juan, São
Paulo and Veracruz.
www.centrefortheaesthetic
revolution.blogspot.com/
6290X60 Arqzine was launched
in 2009 and is presented annually
at FIL (Feria Internacional del
Libro de Guadalajara). It features
text and images from architects,
planners and artists in Mexico and
abroad. The publication, website
and Tumblr blog are edited by
Felipe Damian and Hector Damian,
Arquitectura Mexicana Diseño
Experimental; Bernardo Sanchez,
Plan_B; and Omar Marcial.
www.90x60.com
63Archinect News Digest is a
publication that culls content from
Archinect.com and redistributes
it into themed and curated issues
of “immediate and pressing interest.” A collaboration between
Archinect.com and Friction House
Publishing, the first issue focuses
on the artist, architect and activist Ai Wei Wei. According to the
editors Christian Chaudhari and
Paul Petrunia, “super-compressed
one week production time makes
the magazine hyper-responsive
and gives it a rough and energetic
styling.”
www.archinect.com
64matzine is a collaborative
publication which dwells on the
peripheries of architecture, and
through its inquiries traverses
art, illustration, historical reflections, experimental writing and
more. Begun in 2009, matzine
originated from the desire of a
group of MArch students at the
Dundee School of Architecture to
quickly disseminate initial
research ideas and to explore
cheap, independent publication. It
has gradually expanded to include
contributions from many disciplines and geographies, and with
each issue a new editor brings
original thematic focus. The content to date has included combinations of short essays, a range
of drawing types, photographs and
video. matzine is published online
as a free digital edition and a
print-ready PDF which anyone may
print and distribute.
www.matzine.wordpress.com
65America Deserta Revisted is
the latest self-publishing project
from artist Tom Keeley, a cofounder of the Sheffield-based
fanzine Go that ran from 2004 to
2008. The series of 5 titles is the
output from a trip by train across
the USA, and is considered by
the author as a “series of urban
guidebooks to the soul, rather
than the sights of a place.” It is
a response to Reyner Banham’s
touristic approach to exploring the
state of the union in the US, and
examines the key urban issues the
country faces as the oil gradually
runs out. The five fanzines in the
series are available as a boxset.
www.mrtomkeeley.co.uk
66The engawa project launched
in January 2010 from a need to
provide an open forum to discuss
architecture by people located in
different cities. The zine takes
its name from the Japanese word
meaning the space between the
interior and the exterior of classic Japanese architecture. It is a
transitional space which suggests
things like invitation or welcome,
but also the contrary, that is to
say projection and opening. The
topic of each issue comes from
one image chosen by a member
of engawa. “After some time
our image returns, multiplied, in
different articles. It is an experiment based on randomness and
the pleasure of sharing thoughts.”
In issue No. 4: an image of a group
of shoes that became an essay
on a cathedral, the discovery of
the addition law in Le Corbusier’s
Venice Hospital, a story of an
imaginary city, a subtle drawing
of nude feet, and more.
www.engawa.es
67The first issue of Friendly Fire
is the result of seven months of
conversation about the state of
architecture between an independent architecture collective comprising Alexandra Areia, Ivo Poças
Martins, Matilde Seabra, Pedro
Baía and Pedro Barata Castro.
The zine was designed entirely on
AutoCad and sets the tone for what
is expected to be a regular editorial project producing “subversive
and humorous narratives and
practices” to share with a limited
number of readers in Portuguese.
Sent selectively by post and sold
during a launch event, the zine
aims to address the architectural
culture and its effects on everyday
life in an alternative and informal
perspective. Friendly Fire operates
from a corner shop in the Bouça
Housing Complex designed by
Álvaro Siza—Porto’s first Pritzker
Prize laureate.
www.friendlyfire.info
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68Public Library is an independent publishing house based in
Santiago, Chile, that publishes
the work of architects, artists,
photographers and designers. It
was founded in 2008 by architect
Emilio Marin and graphic designer
Diego Córdova, and joined by
photographer Cristobal Palma in
2010. The output allows architects
to experiment with printed matter including zines and posters.
Casa de Todos features a house
designed by Veronica Arcos in the
foothills of Santiago de Chile.
www.publiclibrary.cl
69Sámi huksendáidda (‘The Sámi
Art of Building’) was launched
in 2007 by Sámi architect Joar
Nango as an attempt to raise the
awareness of the architecture of
the indigenous people of Arctic
and Northern Europe. “It is an
unwritten chapter in the European
history of architecture. The aim
has been to visualize a complete
picture of the traditional Sámi
architectural typology as a creative bank of the development
of new design-knowledge.” The
annual zine project is intended
to be a forum for critical reflections and creative research on the
architectural potential for the construction of new identities through
merging traditional and contemporary design methods. The launch
issue, Sámi huksendáidda: For
Beginners, provides an overview of
traditional Sámi architecture—
the structures and buildings that
are connected to both a nomadic
reindeer-herding culture and the
resident fishermen and farmers of
the coastline—and research into
the methodology used by architects for contemporary design in
Sámi communities.
70Touching on Architecture is
published by i-cabin(texts), the
publishing department of the
social, architectural and artistic
research project i-cabin. The sporadic series of saddle-stitched
booklets is a step into architecture via the critical work of a single non-architect. Writers, artists,
musicians, designers and theorists
are invited to publish their current work or research, in reflection of how these outputs touch
upon architectural constructions.
The first issue by illustrators and
graphic designers The Jan Press
B.
(Cont’d)
presents their own outlook on
what architecture does or is or
could be in society.
www.i-cabin.co.uk
at cost just to get it out there to
friends and peers in order to start
dialogs.”
www.nonow.net
71 UP is a fanzine about ‘interesting architectures’ published by
artists Koenraad Dedobbeleer and
Kris Kimpe. Each issue is presented in A5, stapled or concertina
folded, and features photography
by Dedobbeleer, Kimpe and others
of a single work of architecture
that inspires them. Accompanying
text provides credit and dates for
the architect and photographer.
Issue No. 08 reads: “The issue
stars the ‘door situation’ of the
master bedrooms at Haus Lange in
Krefeld, designed by Mies van der
Rohe in 1928. Photographs were
taken in January 2009 by Volker
Döhne.”
74The Civic City Cahier series,
launched by Jesko Fezer and
Matthias Görlich in 2010, intends
to provide material for a critical discussion about the role
of design for a new social city.
It publishes short monographic
texts by authors who specialize
in urban and design theory and
practice. Civic City Cahier is published by Bedford Press, a publishing imprint of the Architectural
Association that seeks to develop
contemporary models of publication practice.
www.bedfordpress.org
72 The concept for the independent magazine published by Kai
von Rabenau is simple: one issue,
one interview. Every issue of
mono.kultur is dedicated entirely
to one artist from across the cultural spectrum and contains one
extensive and in-depth interview.
Carefully edited and designed,
each issue is adapted to and produced in close co-operation with
the given interview partner leading to bespoke design solutions.
Architects interviewed in mono.
kultur include MVRDV and David
Adjaye.
www.mono-kultur.com
73 no now is a publishing venture from Melissa J. Frost and
Shannon M. O’Neill. “We make
and make available carefully constructed publications because we
believe in something: architecture,
urbanism, history, art, literature,
libraries and long walks on the
beach.” Towards an Architecture
of Opposition is a zine in the
DIY tradition by Melissa J. Frost.
It is an exploration of the current attempts at architecture as
activism and provides “20 pages
of architecture criticism at its
most punk rock.” “When a scathing political critique of activist
architecture had to be toned down
for an institutional magazine, I
realized a zine would be a more
appropriate format to say what I
needed to with complete honesty
and freedom. I put it together by
hand in the copy shop and sold it
75 Camenzind was founded in
2005 and positions itself in the gap
between glossy magazines and professional architectural journals. The
editors believe that since architecture concerns everyone, it should
be discussed in a way comprehensible for everybody and include
contributions from a wide range of
disciplines and users of architecture. “Our eighth issue represents
a new step in terms of layout
technique, materiality and content
complexity. Jokes about famous
architects stand alongside serious
reports about prostitution in Zurich,
a rather dry historical excursus is
followed by a passionate letter to a
very conservative features writer.
The satirical tone means that the
reader can never be sure whether
they are expected to laugh out loud
or express concern; we aspire to
make people laugh and then think
within the space opened up by
laughter. With this anarchic eclecticism we aspire to democratize the
discourse and offer a new way for
readers to engage with architecture
and urbanism.”
www.cazmag.com
76face b is a cultural and architectural journal based in Paris.
Launched in 2008 by Sébastien
Martinez Barat, Aurélien Gillier
and Benjamin Lafore, each issue
presents interviews and essays by
renowned and emerging critics,
curators, architects and artists.
“Back to Basics defines itself as
a break, a moment of wholesome
and opportune autarky when architecture withdraws into itself. This
issue draws, depicts and forms
through the work of architects,
a fragile and cold fellowship that
can be dissolved at any time. Back
to Basics does not impoverish history, instead it capitalizes vacant
referential territories. This issue
embodies—in its editorial statement, in the curated contributors,
in its for— what can be called a
critical project.”
www.faceb.fr
77 The student-run journal of the
Princeton University School of
Architecture was first published in
2006 by graduate students Marc
McQuade, Caroline O’Donnell, and
Brian Tabolt to make the work
generated at Princeton accessible
to fellow students and the outside
world. Maintaining its 256-page
format, PIDGIN now operates with
six student editors and features
the work of students, faculty, staff
and friends of the school. “PIDGIN
acts as both a language (pidgin)
and a transmitter (pigeon) for the
school. It’s a marker of a moment
in time, and an ongoing record of
the school’s interests.”
www.pidgin-magazine.net
78 scopio magazine is a bi-annual
publication on photography, architecture and public space from the
Cityscopio Cultural Association
and the Espaço F-FAUP / CCRE
research group. The editors aim
to promote awareness of the photographic image with regard to
its ability to question real space
and its experiences, a support
and technique for the mediation
and reception of architecture by
a wide public, and an instrument
for exploring spatial forms and
new architecture. The publication,
inspired by bookzines and zines
and taking its name from a Greek
word describing an instrument
for viewing, features visual narratives, texts or other related works
in which photography is used as a
research instrument. “We selected
authors and works where the concept of architecture is explored,
specifically in relationship to light,
form, detail and how architecture
is experienced through imagination and reality. The intent is to
present diverse visual narratives
that convey a position, argument
or story about a particular architectural problem.”
www.scopiomagazine.com
VI.
Archizines & Storefront
(Cont’d)
79City As Material is an ongoing
series of collaborative exploratory
walks and book-making events.
It emerged from a desire to bring
people together to create publications, taking a deeper look at the
cities we inhabit—their patterns,
rhythms, fissures and faults—so
that these spaces can inform and
inspire creative work. An initial
series of five events in Autumn
2010 took groups of people on
routes through London guided
by topics and themes, to trigger
shared discourse and making,
and resulting in creating collaborative book. Issue No. 10 is an
overview of the first series of City
As Material, chronicling each of
the five events and the process of
creating the series as a whole.
www.proboscis.org.uk
Archizines at Storefront for Art
and Architecture
April 17 – June 9, 2012
Curation
Elias Redstone
Exhibition
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(Giancarlo Valle, Isaiah King,
Ryan Neiheiser)
Graphic Design
B.C...A.D.
(Benjamin Critton)
Printing
Linco, Long Island City, NY.
80Journal Illustratif was launched
by Bart Van Overberghe in 2010
to create a series of visual and
tactile ‘architectural’ narratives.
The first issue, a graphic short
story between abstraction and
representation, was an attempt to
illustrate possible links between
real, existing places and unreal,
imagined spaces. The second
issue, No. 0.5—City / Trip references Google Street View and its
endless flow of images: a story
without a beginning or an end.
“The succession of images suggests the idea of time, motion and
passage, elements that are also
part of the architectural experience.” Future issues will feature
collaborations with other designers and illustrators.
www.serviceillustratif.be
The Archizines project was conceived by Elias Redstone to catalogue, celebrate and promote the
recent explosion of architectural
publishing activity. It was originally
launched online, with art direction by Folch Studio. An exhibition
initiated in collaboration with the
Architectural Association School
of Architecture was presented in
London from 5 Nov. – 14 Dec. 2011.
The exhibition will continue to tour
internationally through 2013 as the
primary collection is transferred
to the National Art Library at the
Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
www.archizines.com.
B.
Storefront for Art and Architecture is a nonprofit organization
committed to the advancement
of innovative positions in architecture, art and design. Since
1982 Storefront has presented the
work of more than one thousand
architects and artists who challenge conventional perceptions of
space-form aesthetic experiments
to explorations of the conceptual, social and political forces
that shape the built environment. The organization’s gallery
space includes a 12-panel facade
designed in a collaborative project
by artist Vito Acconci and architect Steven Holl that is regarded
as a contemporary architectural
landmark and that exhibiting artists often utilize in their creations.
Through its exhibitions, public
programs, publications, competitions and special projects, Storefront creates an open forum to
help architects and artists realize
work and present it to a diverse
audience of artists, architects and
scholars form around the world.
Director
Eva Franch i Gilabert
Director of External Relations
Kara Meyer
Operations Manager
Erica Freyberger
Producer
Gjergji Shkurti Webmaster Angie Waller
Interns Tomaz Capobianco, Zeynep Goskel,
Eleanor Lygo, Amanda Madigan,
Dina Muenzfeld
Volunteers
Richard Duff, Idil Erdemli, Whitney
Joslin, Linh Pham, Ryan Ripoli,
Charlie Sneath, Pau Suris Sunyer
Board of Directors
Charles Renfro, President
Campbell Hyers, Vice President
R. Douglass Rice, Treasurer
Lauren Kogod, Secretary
Carlos Brillembourg, Madeline
Burke-Vigeland, Beatriz Colomina,
Belmont Freeman, Terence
Gower, Michael Manfredi, William
Menking, Margery Perlmutter,
Linda Pollak, Robert M. Rubin,
Artur Walther, Mabel Wilson,
Karen Wong.
Director's Council
Kyong Park, Founder
Sarah Herda, Joseph Grima
Board of Advisors
Kent Barwick, Stefano Boeri, Peter
Cook, Chris Dercon, Elizabeth
Diller, Claudia Gould, Dan Graham,
Peter Guggenheimer, Richard
Haas, Brooke Hodge, Steven
Holl, Steven Johnson, Toyo Ito,
Mary Jane Jacob, Mary Miss,
Antoni Muntadas, Shirin Neshat,
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucio Pozzi,
Frederieke Taylor, Anthony Vidler,
James Wines
The Storefront for Art and
Architecture’s exhibitions and
programs are made possible by
the Andy Warhol Foundation for
the Visual Arts through the Warhol
Initiative; Bloomberg; the New
York State Council on the Arts
with the support of Governor
Andrew Cuomo and the New York
State Legislature; public funds
from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; The
Peter T. Joseph Foundation; by
its Board of Directors, members
and by individuals. Additional
support for Archizines is provided by Arquine, Architectural
Record/ McGraw–Hill Construction,
DOMUS, eVolo, and Susan Szenasy,
Metropolis, leaders in print publication interested in supporting
the next generation of publications
because “printed matter matters.”
Storefront proudly lists all of
its members and supporters on
the Storefront website. If you
would like to lend your support to
Storefront by becoming a member,
please visit www.storefrontnews.
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