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UIC has named Florencia Rodriguez as its new director

2022-06-16T12:26:00-04:00

The University of Illinois Chicago’s School of Architecture now officially has a new leader following Wednesday’s announcement that editor, writer, and academic Florencia Rodriguez has been named its next director.

Rodriguez will step into the role beginning in August. A statement from the school promised her tenure would encapsulate a desire to “promote the school’s pursuit to liberate and install new forms of collective association and material arrangement through all media of architectural design and research.”

A native Argentinian, Rodriguez comes to the position having lectured and taught theory courses at Boston Architectural College, Universidad del Litoral, and ITESM. Before moving to her post at Harvard GSD, she was a visiting professor at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella’s School of Architecture and Universidad de Palermo. She was a Loeb Fellow in 2013 and pursued her own degrees in architecture at the Universidad de Belgrano between 1993 and 2000.

Rodriguez is known for ...

Kevin Lippert, influential Princeton Architectural Press founder, has passed away aged 63

2022-04-01T18:37:00-04:00

The architecture and publishing worlds have lost an icon after news broke yesterday about the passing of legendary Princeton Architectural Press founder Kevin Lippert on March 29th following a long battle with cancer.

Lippert founded the Press while still a student at the Princeton University School of Architecture in 1981. He was instrumental in publishing Steven Holl’s seminal 1989 manifesto Anchoring, which launched the architect’s name into the mainstream and continues to be considered one of the most fundamental design texts of the past half-century.

Very sorry to hear about the death of Kevin Lippert, founder of Princeton Architectural Press. Though I did not work with Kevin directly on the two books I did with PAP, his impact on those projects was clearly felt. pic.twitter.com/HTJauCCKvl
— Blair Kamin (@BlairKamin) March 30, 2022

His direction led the development of the once small company into a relative giant in the world of commercial book publishing, expanding several time...

School of Architecture professor to lead University of Virginia Press

2020-01-13T18:32:00-05:00

Suzanne Morse Moomaw, associate professor of urban and environmental planning at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture, is the new director of the University of Virginia Press.

UVA Today reports that Moomaw has served on the press's board of directors since 2015 and will be on leave for the 2020-21 academic year to pursue the role. She will then begin the search for the press's next director starting in the spring of 2021. Moomaw is taking over for previous director Mark Saunders, who passed away May 19, 2019.

Moomaw's hiring was announced in December and she took the reigns of the publishing house at the start of 2020.

Lynn Grady joins Princeton Architectural Press as publisher

Moomaw is the director of the Community Design Research Center at UVA, an entity focused on addressing the "wicked problems" faced by communities today. She has a long career in higher education and in philanthropic, non-profit, and research organizations, including an 18-year stint as the CE...

Lynn Grady joins Princeton Architectural Press as publisher

2019-12-16T11:34:00-05:00

After 15 years with HarperCollins, Lynn Grady joins Princeton Architectural Press as publisher, an appointment made effective early last month. Grady has more than 30 years of experience in the trade publishing world, delivering books such as Notorious RBG, Together We Rise, Rejected Princesses, the World According to Star Wars, Yes Please, and many others.

Jack Jensen, President of the McEvoy Group said in a statement, "[Grady] has great respect and admiration for the high-quality, distinctive list that Princeton creates and is firmly committed to continuing to burnish and grow the exceptional company that Kevin Lippert founded and has helped nurture over these many years."

'Lair' book explores the radical homes and hideouts of movie villains

2019-11-01T12:58:00-04:00

From Atlantis in The Spy Who Loved Me to Nathan Bateman's ultra-modern abode in Ex Machina, big-screen villains tend to live in architectural splendor. The villain’s lair, as popularized in many of our favorite movies, is much more than where the megalomaniac goes to get some rest. Instead, the homes of the villains are places where evil is plotted and where, often, the hero is tested...

By Miami-based architect Chad Oppenheim and editor Andrea Gollin, the new publication explores the architectural designs from fifteen films through architectural illustrations and renderings, photographs, essays, film analyses, and interviews. Some of the films featured include Dr. Strangelove, The Incredibles, Blade Runner 2049, and You only Live Twice. It will be released on November 5th.

London School of Architecture's Citizen Magazine investigates the current and future state of adventurous urbanisms

2019-09-16T15:19:00-04:00

The London School of Architecture (LSA) has unveiled its latest edition of Citizen Magazine, the school's new quarterly publication. The magazine, created "for everybody engaged in the challenge of creating the future city" aims to inspire and promote the work of people "designing innovative proposals to bring about real improvements to the city," according to a statement.

The most recent edition includes an essay exploring the "occupation and reappropriation of London’s streets" through mass movements like this year's Extinction Rebellion climate collapse protests; an interview between British anthropologist Henrietta L Moore and architectural and urban theorist Richard Sennett; an essay urging a new approach for designing British mosques; a discussion of the changing nature of queer culture and urbanism, and a series of interviews with new and rising talent on the London architecture scene, among many other contributions and thoughtful work samples.

A drawing from Queering the C...

Limited copies of Ed 3 "Normal" remain from first printing

2019-09-13T15:36:00-04:00

We have a very limited number of copies remaining from our first print of the third issue of Ed, Archinect's print periodical. To secure a copy before we run out, orders should be made soon.

This latest issue features a diverse range of contributions by significant architectural thinkers and practitioners that tackle questions surrounding the norms of the discipline and its normative functions. The issue aims to denormalize and denaturalize what we take for givens in the discipline and profession: primarily, its institutionalized social and labor relations, and their misogynistic, racist, corrupt, and oppressive character. At the same time, it looks at the ways in which architecture presumes—and, in turn, produces—a normative subject with a normative body. And it imagines alternatives through a series of contemporary case studies.

Buy your copy soon before we sell out, only $10, with fast shipping, from the Ed website, or from Archinect Outpost.

Contributors to this magazine inc...

Andrea Palladio Comes to Los Angeles

2019-01-09T18:18:00-05:00

“Andrea Palladio in Los Angeles” is the first of a ten monograph series that pairs seminal architects with contemporary cities. Examining Los Angeles through the work of Andrea Palladio, the publication captures the city through a collection of fictional Palladian projects and accompanying critical essays.

Publication Spread. Image via PAX

PAX Monographs approaches the the architectural monograph as a critical medium, rethinking it from a retrospective exercise into a projective assertion. Engaging history as a generative source rather than a distant reference, the series places past architects in present day cities in which they have never built before.

Through the lens of history, the publication actively engages our current contexts. In doing so, the publication translates seminal work in unintended contexts, questioning the critical relationship shared between architecture and its cultural setting. PAX Monographs revisits seemingly definitive bodies of knowledge to challenge thei...

Neil Denari launched his new monograph MASSX at Archinect Outpost last night

2018-11-28T17:34:00-05:00

Thanks so much to everyone that braved the LA rush hour traffic to attend our book launch & signing with Neil Denari last night at Archinect Outpost. As predicted, all of the copies of MASSX we secured were quickly sold. We have heard from many of you out there who wanted to buy a copy, but couldn't attend our event, so we're reaching out to the publisher to see if we can snag some more copies of this very limited release.

During my conversation with Neil we spoke about his early vision for the monograph, the process of producing and editing this giant tome, his approach to communicating his work through print (Neil did all the layout and graphic design for this book!), and his vision for the next monograph, which he promises won't take another 19 years to release. We will be releasing this conversation as a podcast or article very soon, so stay tuned.

Over the course of the next few months we will be hosting more of these events, with local and international architects, to talk ab...

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...

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...

Get Issue #1 of Archinect's print publication 'Ed' at these fine retail partners

2018-04-09T13:43:00-04:00

It's been a few months now since we launched Archinect's latest offshoot, Ed, our quarterly print publication. Issue #1 "Architecture of Architecture" features a conversation with MAIO, a feature from Interboro Partners' new book “The Arsenal of Inclusion and Exclusion”, a special iteration of Archinect's Small Studio Snapshots series featuring Brandão Costa Arquitectos, as well as thought-provoking essays by Troy Conrad Therrien, the Feminist Architecture Collaborative, Manuel Shvartzberg-Carrío, Caitlin Blanchfield and Nina Kolowratnik with Ophelia Rivas, Jaffer Kolb, Jack Self, Giovanna Borradori, Miles Dugan, Lori Brown, Marina Otero Verzier, Scott Deisher, and Andreas Angelidakis among others.

While Ed #1 has been available globally at ed.archinect.com (get a single issue or the annual subscription for 4 issues per year), we've also been busy building relationships with local retail partners, so you can pick up a copy at your neighborhood bookshop, flip through the pages, and s...

Printing Architecture; A conversation with Ethel Baraona Pohl and Nicholas Korody about architecture and the print medium

2018-01-11T17:20:00-05:00

This week, we are joined by Nicholas Korody, the Editor-in-Chief of Archinect's new print project Ed, and Ethel Baraona Pohl, co-founder of Barcelona-based architecture publisher dpr-barcelona. We discuss the increasingly-niche industry of architectural print publishing, and the evolving value it offers as digital media continues to thrive.

We also provide a little behind-the-scenes look at the conception and development of Ed. Interested in seeing your work in print? Ed is currently seeking submissions for our next issue on "Disaster". Bracket, a publication project Archinect co-publishes with Infranetlab, is seeking submissions for the upcoming release "On Sharing".

Listen to episode 113 of Archinect Sessions, “Printing Architecture”.

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How university presses influence our understanding of urbanism — then, now, and for the future

2015-07-28T18:52:00-04:00

Many [university presses] have a storied history of amplifying voices that were long ignored...The litany is endless, underscoring the audacity of university presses in believing that every city deserves the best ideas possible. We need that. As we make choices about our modern cities, as policymakers, advocates or citizens, we need these books to ground our vision, to help us imagine what is possible. And that’s why the tenuous future of university presses is so alarming.

Editor's Picks #341

2013-11-12T19:20:00-05:00

Beth Rosenthal penned an Op-Ed - Millennials and Opportunity: Embracing Intentional vs Spontaneous Change in the Workforce. In the piece she puts a challenge/question to her contemporaries; "What if rather than changing jobs or companies, you tried to change the system or culture within your existing work environment?...as our generation of millennials 'grows up' a little bit, and decides to potentially (just maybe?!) settle down a bit, how do we identify opportunities to yield change through a thoughtful investment of time and commitment?".

Steven Ward agreed with the gist but added "i think there is value in change at the beginning of your career…later on, stability is good…but don't just stick to stick. find a situation that you value, that makes you want to become rooted and engaged in a more committed way".

Plus, the latest edition of the Working out of the Box featured Liz von Hasseln, one part of the husband-and-wife team and 3D sugar-printing design firm, The Sugar ...