Archinect - Features

Screen/Print #70: Jack Self Revisits Biosphere II, the Most Infamous Earth Science Experiment in History

2019-01-31T11:29:00-05:00

The newest issue of MacGuffin Magazine, "The Ball," collects stories that appear disparate but for their fixation on the consolidating properties of the circular object (whether as the globe, the sphere, or the minimal-surface enclosure).

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

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.

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.

'What it means to live today': an interview with Jack Self from Next Up: Floating Worlds

2017-03-27T12:07:00-04:00

“Everything we think of as being normal in the home, everything we think of as being traditional—they’re all inventions,” states Jack Self, the London-based founder of the REAL Foundation, during an interview conducted as part of Archinect’s fourth live podcasting event, Next Up: Floating Worlds. “The corridor is an invention, the single bed is an invention, the kitchen is an invention. And they’re all constantly in a state of evolution. If we can view the house as a design object and as an artificial construct with social relations, then anyone can have power to change the way that they live. Go home and rearrange your living room. Put all the soft surfaces in one room and all the hard surfaces in another room. You’ll instantly see how much of a construct your home is.”

Previewing the 2016 Venice Biennale: the British Pavilion's "Home Economics"

2016-05-03T02:03:00-04:00

In advance of the 2016 Venice Biennale, we've spoken with the curators behind a few select pavilions to see how they're grappling with Alejandro Aravena's theme, "Reporting from the Front". For this feature, we spoke with the curators behind the British Pavilion, "Home Economics".