2024-12-21T21:51:46-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150085656/archinectmeets-archiveofaffinities Shane Reiner-Roth 2018-09-13T10:29:00-04:00 >2018-09-18T19:08:30-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0e/0ef9ea0490c420dc6dc33d099762b535.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/features/tag/1198457/archinectmeets" target="_blank">#ArchinectMeets</a> is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram&rsquo;s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has affected their practice.&nbsp;</p> <p>Social media has undeniably affected the way we perceive, interpret and share opinions about architecture today. Using our own account, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/archinect/" target="_blank">@Archinect</a>, as a site for image curation and news content, we wanted to ask fellow Instagram users how they navigated the platform.</p> <p>We begin the series with Andrew Kovacs (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/archiveofaffinities/" target="_blank">@archiveofaffinities</a>),&nbsp;a professor of architecture&nbsp;at UCLA and owner of&nbsp;the blog Archive of Affinities. Kovacs has treated this blog - divided between Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr - as his own personal&nbsp;strategy for "making architecture from architecture" against a field of notoriously uncompromising budgets, clients and deadlines. History often lays bare architecture t...</p>