Archinect - Features

Urban Discussions Never Sleep; A Conversation with Bernd Upmeyer, Founder of MONU Magazine

2018-12-10T15:41:00-05:00

Redlines is a collection of interviews with editors that make today's most provocative architectural publications come to life. While architecture is traditionally concerned with buildings, materials, and scale, their importance and historical impact are recorded through words, books, and images that are often organized, published, and disseminated. Redlines seeks to understand the pedagogical and design frameworks that shape this process.

In this session, we look at MONU Magazine. MONU is run by Bernd Upmeyer. Bernd Upmeyer is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD).

Books and Bots: Conversations on the Future of Architecture Publishing

2018-11-05T10:48:00-05:00

The ease of online publishing has influenced a surge in the production of architecture content—more text, images and video are now created and distributed than ever before. In this sink or swim environment of the global ‘mediasphere’, print-based architecture publishers face challenging questions when it comes to their future financial sustainability and role in a rapidly-changing industry. As Archinect’s own bookshop and event space in Downtown LA’s Arts District, Archinect Outpost, celebrates its first summer, this edition of Architecture Futures invites architecture publishers to reflect on the industry as it stands today and what the next decade may hold. Instead of ‘killing print’ will the fourth industrial revolution induce a mainstream resurgence of physical publications? What is the future role of editor as publishers add AI sorting mechanisms and user-driven editing practices to their oeuvre? What new forms of architectural content may soon exist? I discuss these questions ...

Jack Self, Editor of Real Review (Now Available at Archinect Outpost!), Discusses His "Mystic Process" and the Importance of Print

2018-08-24T11:58:00-04:00

This week we talk with Real Review's editor, Jack Self. Real Review is a publication stemming from a creative partnership between the architectural practice REAL and the design studio OK-RM.

Stephanie Rigolot Discusses Her Pivot from Practicing Architecture to Communicating Architecture

2018-08-02T13:10:00-04:00

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.

In this installment, we're talking with Stephanie Rigolot, founder of LA-based consultancy WHAT THE WHAT. We discuss her experience working for architects such as Michael Graves and Thom Mayne, and how that evolved into a business devoted to helping architects express their work to the the public.

Why we're starting a print magazine after 20 years of publishing digitally

2017-05-02T15:31:00-04:00

When I started Archinect 20 years ago, in the summer of 1997, the internet was still many years away from becoming a replacement for newspapers and magazines. Since then, the media landscape has changed drastically, with most print publications now dedicating the majority of their time and budget to their digital platforms. Today we consume media in a different way than we have ever done in the past, for better or worse. We expect more content, with higher quality, but human nature tends to give in to the quick and gratifying. Journalism has struggled to monetize quality investigations and writing as sites like Buzzfeed have proven that listicles, fun photos, and quick content bites offer a much greater return in dollars and followers.

Inside Pamphlet: How one of the most enduring experimental architecture publications got its start

2016-02-12T12:38:00-05:00

The first issue of Pamphlet Architecture, the high-minded zine-like experimental publication started in 1978 by architect Steven Holl and bookseller William Stout, wasn’t exactly readable. “Its cover was printed by Mark Mack on letterpress in black ink on black paper,” Holl recounted over email, describing the publication’s beginning. Pamphlet 1: Bridges “drew scorn from the head of Rizzoli Publications in New York who told us, ‘It’s impossible to see; we can’t carry it.’”

Screen/Print: SOILED's "Windowscrapers"

2013-10-29T17:02:00-04:00

Screen/Print is an experimentation in translation across media, featuring a close-up digital look at printed architectural writing. Divorcing content from the physical page, the series lends a new perspective to nuanced architectural thought.

For this issue, we’re featuring SOILED magazine’s fourth issue, Windowscrapers.

Do you run an architectural publication? Are you particularly excited about an upcoming periodical? If you’d like to submit a piece of writing to Screen/Print, please send us a message.

A review of Joe Day's "Corrections and Collections: Architectures for Art and Crime" (2013, Routledge)

2013-09-10T11:25:00-04:00

“Since 2000, institutions of display and discipline have taken on transnational dimensions, many of them unanticipated and controversial. In the most literal of convergences, yesteryear’s prisons have simply been reopened as today’s museums.”