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.’”

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