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The LA Forum Reader Traces 30 Years of LA's Architectural Discourse

2018-07-06T17:40:00-04:00

The LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design has offered a critical look at the city of Los Angeles since the late 80's. The nonprofit has been providing public programming, exhibitions, and publications through its ever-shifting board of directors and volunteer contributors. To celebrate this 30-year milestone, the Forum has carefully selected a collection of pieces published from its origin to today, and has published these in a book under the themes of Experiments, Detours, Hunches, and Santa Anas.

Today, Los Angeles is a major architectural and urban player, but for decades the city was dismissed suburban and centerless. In republishing three decades of material on architecture and design in Los Angeles, the LA Forum Reader reclaims and reconsiders the city’s architectural and discursive histories. It establishes, or reestablishes, a textual context for critical experimentation and urban investigation. This anthological volume includes essays, interviews, and reproductions of...

Get to know the publishers represented at Archinect Outpost, Part 3 of 3

2018-06-15T11:00:00-04:00

In anticipation of the launch party of the Archinect Outpost, our new retail initiative in Downtown LA’s Arts District, we present part 3 of the curated collection of small-run, independently published architecture periodicals we will have on display:

Place-Holder

PLACE-HOLDER is a Canadian magazine that attempts to capture the life of architecture and design. It is an active catalogue of design, for contemporary use and future reference, a repository and mediator of ideas that are floating in the collective memories of architects and designers.

Plat Journal

PLAT is an independent architectural journal, supported and edited by students of Rice Architecture, whose purpose is to stimulate relationships between design, production, and theory. Plat operates by interweaving professional and academic work into an open and evolving dialogue which progresses from issue to issue.

POOL

POOL is the student magazine of the Department of Architecture & Urban Design at the University of Californi...

Get to know the publishers represented at Archinect Outpost, Part 2 of 3

2018-06-14T16:00:00-04:00

In anticipation of the launch party of the Archinect Outpost, our new retail initiative in Downtown LA’s Arts District, we present part 2 of the curated collection of small-run, independently published architecture periodicals we will have on display:

Intern Mag

Intern has been providing a contemporary platform for the ongoing debate on internships and those affected by it, to express the current state of the creative industry from a relatively honest and critical perspective. All output is either by or about members of the creative youth, which is enabled by the publication’s open submissions policy and strong ties to creative industries.

LA+

LA+ (Landscape Architecture Plus) explores landscape architecture's interdisciplinary potential, bringing readers a rich collection of work from contemporary thinkers and designers in two lavishly illustrated issues annually. Within its pages are the thoughts of not only designers but also historians, artists, geographers, psychologists, ecolo...

Get to know the publishers represented at Archinect Outpost, Part 1 of 3

2018-06-14T11:00:00-04:00

In anticipation of the launch party of the Archinect Outpost, our new retail initiative in Downtown LA’s Arts District, we present part 1 of the curated collection of small-run, independently published architecture periodicals we will have on display:

Art Papers

ART PAPERS provides an accessible forum for examining, discussing, and documenting the full spectrum of contemporary art and culture, as well as the ways they affect and reflect our lives. They engage online, in print, and through public programming.

Beautifully Banal

Beautifully Banal is a celebration of the beauty that can be found in the ordinary by mixing whimsy and everyday life. It is an exploration of traditional architecture drawing types combined with comic book storytelling, resulting in graphic novel under the guise of architectural discourse.

CLOG

CLOG is an international publication that critically explores one topic at a time from as many perspectives as possible. While online press, blogs, tweets, social media...

Call for Submissions now open for 'Ed' #3: Normal!

2018-06-07T14:02:00-04:00

Architecture isn’t normal. We take for a given that architecture has to operate the way it already does — but it doesn’t. What appears as natural is in fact constructed, and has mutated dramatically through time. “Architecture,” that is, refers not just to the practice of building but also to a set of institutionalized social and labor relations, which are often misogynistic, racist, corrupt, and oppressive. For far too long, we’ve accepted workplaces where women are mistreated, harassed, assaulted. We’ve accepted the exclusion of people of color from our ranks and as our clients. We’ve accepted exploitation of workers and cyclical systems of abuse. We’ve accepted as the ideal of our profession an image of the architect—and the client—that is white, that is cis male, that is straight, that is able bodied, that is rich. We have to, urgently, denormalize these norms of the architectural profession and discipline.

While architecture may not be normal, it does normalize. It transforms c...

Archinect Outpost to open in Downtown Los Angeles, Launch Party June 15th

2018-06-05T12:19:00-04:00

Join Archinect in celebrating the opening of Archinect Outpost and the launch of Ed 2 "Architecture of Disaster" on June 15th, 7-10 PM.

RSVP here to reserve your spot!

Archinect Outpost is an exciting new retail initiative in downtown LA's Arts District, a rapidly transforming creative hub home to SCI-Arc and a number architecture & design practices. Archinect Outpost will launch with a curated collection of small-run, independently published architecture publications including Art Papers, Beautifully Banal, Bracket, CLOG, Concrete Maps, Ed, Flat Out, Fresh Meat Journal, Harvard Design Magazine, Intern Mag, LA+, Log, MASKS, MacGuffin, Migrant Journal, MONU, NESS, PAX, Place-Holder, Plat Journal, POOL, Project Journal, Soiled, and Thresholds Journal.

Archinect Outpost will be located at 900 E 4th St, in the heart of downtown LA's Arts District. Astute locals will notice that it's the same address as the A+D Museum, home to some of the most exciting exhibitions and events in the cit...

A conversation with Nicholas Korody, Editor in Chief of the just-released Ed 2 "Architecture of Disaster"

2018-05-24T17:08:00-04:00

This week we announced the release of our latest issue of our print journal, Ed, with the theme “Architecture of Disaster”. For today’s show I’m talking with Nicholas Korody, Ed’s editor-in-chief, to discuss this latest release. Nicholas talks about the conception of the theme and shares some of his favorite pieces. We finish the conversation with a hint at Nicholas’s forthcoming Venice Architecture Biennale coverage.

Buy your copy of Ed here.

CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones, by Cooking Sections. Photo by Colin Hattersley.

Listen to episode 122 of Archinect Sessions, “Architecture of Disaster”.

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Get your copy of the first issue of Ed, Archinect's new print journal!

2017-11-14T09:00:00-05:00

Archinect is pleased to announce the release of the inaugural issue of Ed, our new print publication. The first issue focuses on “The Architecture of Architecture”—how architecture is constitutively enmeshed within ecologies, economies, socio-politics, technological regimes, and patriarchal structures. In the issue, some of the most innovative voices in contemporary architecture take a look at how this operates, and how it can be redesigned. In short, “The Architecture of Architecture” endeavors to sketch out the limits of contemporary architectural practice and thought, and to imagine alternatives.

Conceived of as a thought-provoking journal wrapped in a visually-rich magazine, the issue features a conversation with the Barcelona-based studio MAIO about their first ground-up project, as well as an interview with the artist Martin Beck by Amelia Stein, and a special iteration of Archinect’s recurring interview series Small Studio Snapshots featuring Brandão Costa Arquitectos. Alongs...

"Textscape" depicts the evolution of printing in 3D-printed documents

2015-01-13T14:00:00-05:00

"Textscape" by interdisciplinary artist and University of Hawaii at Manoa educator Hongtao Zhou is a visually engaging work of 3D text documents that nods to one of the Four Great Inventions of Ancient China: printing. The letter-sized documents examine how the role of printing has shifted from duplicating text to producing objects, thanks to the rise of 3D printing.

Reflecting Zhou's background in furniture design, sculptural installation, and architecture, the documents are 3D depictions of their respective subject matters, such as cities or landscapes.

Zhou — and a group of participating artists consisting of Tyler Francisco, Rhealyn Dalere and Chin Fang Chen from the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Architecture — created additional Textscapes "written" in braille, different languages, calligraphies, and number systems with the intention to turn the pastime of reading into an interactive process and into works of art that can be widely appreciated.

MONU #14 ON EDITING URBANISM RELEASED

2011-04-19T11:53:34-04:00

MONU is one of the leading independent architecture magazines published today, bringing together challenging themes with interesting architecture writers and theorists. It is excellent and deserves to be read by anyone interested in urban issues.

MONU - magazine on urbanism has published its 14th issue featuring among others contributions by Rem Koolhaas/OMA and Adolfo Natalini/ Superstudio on the topic of Editing Urbanism

(Rotterdam, April 19, 2011) MONU's 14th issue features contributions by UNION3, Felix Madrazo, Alexander Sverdlov, Marieke Kums, Arman Akdogan, Anastassia Smirnova, Henk Ovink, Simone Pizzagalli, OMA, Rem Koolhaas, Ippolito Pestellini, Beatriz Ramo, Lucas Dean, Jarrik Ouburg, Sara Hendren, Sean Burkholder, Adolfo Natalini, Bernd Upmeyer, STAR strategies + architecture, Marinke Steenhuis, Paul Meurs, Jan Bovelet, Miodrag Kuc, Ephraim Joris, Michiel van Iersel, Juha van 't Zelfde, Ben Cerveny, Gijs Hoofs, Michiel Daalmans, Brian Davis, Rob Holmes, Brett Milligan, Patrizia Di Monte, Floris Alkemade, Adriaan Geuze, Jaap van den Bout, and Piet Vollaard.

Despite the current urgency to deal with the enormous potential of the already existing urban material as Urban Editors, there seems still to be an enor...