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An open role at The New York Review of Architecture could help propel your career in architectural writing

2023-03-22T12:53:00-04:00

Following last week’s look at an opening for the CAED Dean at the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open position on Archinect Jobs for an Engagement Coordinator at The New York Review of Architecture .

The successful applicant to the part-time role will join The New York Review of Architecture’s team of four part-time employees in Chelsea, New York City. According to the outlet, the engagement coordinator will be “pivotal in amplifying the voice of the publication,” including social media posting, preparing content in collaboration with writers and editors, and assisting the publishing of content online and in e-mail lists.

Why the role interests us

The open role at The New York Review of Architecture offers us the opportunity to explore the work of a publication dedicated to pursuing architecture issues in New York and...

CriticalProductive: New journal on culture, arts, and architecture to be launched by former USC Dean Milton S. F. Curry

2023-01-25T11:56:00-05:00

Former USC School of Architecture Dean Milton S. F. Curry has announced the creation of a new architecture journal. Titled CriticalProductive, the peer-reviewed print and digital academic journal will be released three times per year by MIT Press and will be “invested in the intellectual project of culture, arts, and architecture.”

Curry is joined in the magazine’s production by program and editorial assistant Grace Cillo. Other names associated with the journal’s editorial include Cornell associate professor Lilly H. Chi, Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, and UCLA city-LAB director Dana Cuff.

“It is a place where cultural theorists, designers, architects, urbanists, artists, humanists, and activists reflect on contemporary culture and experiment with provocative ideas on how to disrupt normative paradigms, activate and catalyze new potentials, and utilize...

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...

Audio issue of architectural journal "Attention" released

2022-02-01T19:21:00-05:00

Architectural journal “Attention” has recently released an innovative all-audio issue of the publication, titled "Community is a Practice" (Issue 6), written and narrated by Portland State University School of Architecture faculty members Anna Goodman and Molly Esteve.

Anna Goodman, assistant professor in the Portland State University School of Architecture, wrote and narrated three episodes in the audio issue, titled “Community is a Practice” (Issue 6), and adjunct faculty member and recent PSU M.Arch graduate Molly Esteve wrote and narrated a fourth episode. The issue explores the vital, and evolving, role of community-engaged work in architecture in the U.S.

Listen to “Community is a Practice” here as well as on iTunes, Mixcloud and Stitcher.

The innovative aural format of this architectural journal gives rise to a new conversation about the opportunities that come with new methods and forums for presenting architectural scholarship. A virtual panel discussion will be held on F...

Architecture and Japanese anime shine in the release of a new book by Les Jardins des Pilotes

2020-04-27T09:26:00-04:00

Futuristic megacities and out-of-this-world cityscapes created for Japanese animated films have influenced video games, films, as well as architects and designers. Similar to the work of Syd Mead and his highly influential artwork, Japanese anime has developed a special relationship with how fictional built environments can look and feel. From beautifully hand-drawn sketches, storyboards, and paintings, anime artists and creators have expanded the worlds of Japan's "ultramodern animated films."

AKIRA - Final production background. Image courtesy of Anime Architecture/Les Jardins des Pilotes

The non-profit organization, Les Jardins des Pilotes, has dedicated their time gathering and showcasing the influential worlds of these fictional spaces in their latest book Anime Architecture. Author and curator Stefan Riekeles showcases the work of famous Japanese artists and their iconic cityscapes found in animated films like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Metropolis, 2001, to name a few.

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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."

Fred Scharmen joins us on the podcast to discuss his new book "Space Settlements"

2019-08-29T09:00:00-04:00

This week we’re joined by one of our favorite regulars, Fred Scharmen. Fred currently teaches architecture and urban design at Morgan State University's School of Architecture and Planning, and is the Principal and Co-Founder of The Working Group on Adaptive Systems. What brings him on today’s show is his just-released new book Space Settlements. The 400-page paperback contains a visually stunning collection of designs for space colonies from the mid-70’s, including iconic artwork and comparison studies of 20th and 21st century architecture projects. Our conversation talks about his research leading up to this book, the process of writing the book and the fascinating stories discovered along the way.

Painting by Don Davis, courtesy NASA Ames Research Center

Listen to episode 143 of Archinect Sessions, “Space Settlements, with Fred Scharmen”.

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A new book highlights Le Corbusier's secret passion for photography

2019-05-09T18:21:00-04:00

On top of being known as a man of architecture and a man of letters, Le Corbusier can now also be known as a man of photography.

View of Charles IV Bridge, toward castle, Prague, May 1911. Photo by Le Corbusier.

LC Foto, a book released by Lars Müller Publishers, is an archive of the architect's photos taken in secret, given that he publicly stated that he saw little value in photography. Between 1907 and 1917 alone, Le Corbusier took almost 6,000 photographs, bringing his cameras on trips to Istanbul, Brazil and the cargo ships which inspired much of his theories on modern architecture.

LC Foto (Le Corbusier, Secret Photographer. Published by Lars Müller.

Log Journal turns 15

2018-12-03T13:37:00-05:00

First with a white cover, then black, then grey, then red and then finally pink, Log Journal has carried itself as a unique voice in the architectural community for an astounding 15 years.

Log Journal logo

Edited by Cynthia Davidson, the magazine has been published three times a year, often as general "open" issues punctuated by themed issues. Editors for themed issues have included Mark Foster Gage, Florencia Pita, Michael Meredith, Bryony Roberts, Greg Lynn and Jan Åman and Savinien Caracostea of AtelierSlice.

If you're in the LA area and would like to check out Log Journal, we are currently stocking Log 44, the newest issue, as well as several back issues at Archinect Outpost.

Archinect Outpost. Photo by Hans Koesters

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...

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...

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 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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RUMP TOW

2017-04-06T14:17:00-04:00

Architecture, we forget at our peril, is inherently violent. It invariably subtracts from the range of available possibilities, especially the perennially attractive option of building nothing at all. In this sense, construction sites are crime scenes. —Herbert Muschamp, NY Times

Three quick takes on architecture, with links, of relevance to a certain tower.

MONU #25 is seeking submissions for "Independent Urbanism"

2016-05-02T14:32:00-04:00

Although the idea that the nation-state as the exclusive agent of connections and relations between political communities is increasingly considered obsolete, the world has witnessed the emergence of more than 30 new countries over the last 3 decades. Especially the fundamental changes in world politics that unfolded across Europe at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s - most emblematically symbolized by the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989, that led to the dissolution of the USSR and Yugoslavia - caused the creation of most of the newly independent states. Fifteen countries, such as Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, or Uzbekistan, to name just a few, became independent with the implosion of the USSR in 1991. Similarly, the former Yugoslavia dissolved into the independent countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and Serbia and Montenegro, which in turn changed into the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, and finally i...

Along the political equator of the desert threshold

2015-11-03T00:24:00-05:00

Weizman’s new book, 'The Conflict Shoreline' (Steidl in association with Cabinet Books, 2015), a richly illustrated volume produced in collaboration with American photographer Fazal Sheikh about the displacement of the Bedouins in the Negev/Naqab desert.

George Prochnik and Eyal Weizman discuss the latest work by the Forensic Architecture team, Bedouin displacement in the Negev and "threshold of detectability."

MONU #23 on Participatory Urbanism Released

2015-10-20T12:31:00-04:00

In order to avoid participation in architecture and urban design becoming merely a politically required token of democratic involvement - a kind of fake participation that does not actually engage the participants in any meaningful way - architects, planners, and designers need to commit themselves and relinquish control, as Jeremy Till claims in an interview with us entitled "Distributing Power". With this new issue of MONU on the topic of "Participatory Urbanism" we aim to find out and reassess to what extent individual citizens really can and should become proactive in the production and development of cities and in the shaping of neighbourhoods, and where the limits of such Participatory Urbanism really lie. However, giving up control and power can be tricky, as planning experts are usually sceptical of participation procedures and tend to consider such procedures an interference in their competences. Instead, they tend to reject the possibility of enrichment of urbanist practic...

Giving Props: AIA Launches Media Engagement Series to Ensure Architects Get Credit

2015-09-04T11:59:00-04:00

If you come across an article that wrongfully excludes the name of an architect, send a link to props@aia.org.

I fear this poor author, Matt Tinder, is going to be inundated with emails. We've all seen the article in the local newspaper announcing a new development along with a gleaming rendering of the building with the credit tag "Artists rendering". This makes steam come out of my ears!

Matt's article tries to approach this all-too-common situation in a calm, logical way: Playing the Long Game. Hopefully the tips in the series will help our profession begin to strategize how we can move media outlets towards more frequently including the fact that someone designed that object that is the focus of the article.

As this is the beginning of a series, it will also likely cover the concern that by bringing to a reporter's attention the omission of an architect's name we reinforce the perception of architects as raging egomaniac artistes. (<sigh> It often feels like we're damned if we do, damned if we don't). By "taking the long view" we can potentially design a way to make sure that credit for ...

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.

MONU #22 on Transnational Urbanism released

2015-04-21T12:12:00-04:00

To prepare our cities for the emergence and growth of transnational lifestyles we need to invent new urban and architectural forms that are adapted to these new ways of life. This is what the French sociologist and assistant Mayor of Paris, Jean-Louis Missika, emphasized in an exclusive interview with MONU entitled “Liberté, Digitalité, Créativité” on the topic of “Transnational Urbanism”. This new issue of MONU focuses on the impact of transnational processes on cities in general and the consequences of transnational relations between individuals, groups, firms, or institutions for cities in particular. We deemed it necessary to dedicate an entire issue to the phenomenon of transnationalism in relation to the city, to architecture, and its influence on cities in spatial as well as social, political, economical, and cultural terms, as these days, more than ever before, and due to the development of technologies that have made transportation and communication infinitely more accessib...

The NY Times drops 38 year-old Thursday "Home" section

2015-03-13T12:06:00-04:00

For many longtime readers of The Times, Thursday was tinged with sadness. One of their favorite weekly sections, Home, was no longer in the paper. The section was discontinued after the March 5 edition, almost exactly 38 years after its debut.

"Thresholds 44: workspace" is seeking submissions

2015-03-10T12:11:00-04:00

thresholds 44: workspace
editors: christianna bonin | nisa ari

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

When an employee at Google’s Mexico City office takes a post-lunch plunge into the on-site ball pit, is she working or playing? And when an employee in one of Foxconn’s factory sites in China leaps from his eighth-floor dormitory, only to be cradled in recently installed “suicide” netting, is he fulfilling or transgressing the design of the workspace? Long hidden in museum basements, conservation labs and storage rooms now feature prominently in museum designs. Facing complicated visa programs and unsavory jobs, employers skirt bureaucracy to sustain the agricultural industry in the US and illegal workers stay undocumented in order to be easily employable. When and why are certain workspaces - and workers - hidden or revealed? What is the “work” that is supposed to happen in the workspace and how have transformations of the tools, economies, demographics, and technologies within the workspace shaped the...

Zaha Hadid and New York Review of Books/Martin Filler resolve legal dispute

2015-01-27T12:05:00-05:00

After a highly publicized five-month battle, the dust has finally settled on the lawsuit that Zaha Hadid filed against New York Review of Books (NYRB) and critic Martin Filler.

The following announcement was released:

On January 22, 2015, following extensive settlement negotiations, Ms. Zaha Hadid withdrew her lawsuit against the New York Review of Books and Mr. Martin Filler. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, which remain confidential, Ms. Hadid has accepted the apology of the New York Review of Books and Mr. Filler, and is pleased to announce, in conjunction with the settlement, the donation of an undisclosed sum of money to a charitable organization that protects and champions labor rights.

Previously:

Zaha Hadid sues architecture critic Martin Filler over book review - Aug 22, '14
Martin Filler issues a retraction regarding his "mistake" in his critique of Zaha Hadid - Aug 25, '14

What is Interior Urbanism? - A Review of MONU #21 by Claudia Mainardi and Giacomo Ardesio

2015-01-26T13:04:00-05:00

In 1969 Reyner Banham in his book The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment marked the shift between the concept of interior to that of an artificial environment. Technology and new human needs in fact had become an integral part of architecture, defining a new paradigm to describe indoor space, that it was not any longer a concern of the singular living-cell but rather of its internal atmosphere.

The issue 21 of MONU describes the current development and the extreme consequences of what this Interior Urbanism means. As Brendan Cormier emphasizes in his article Some Notes Towards an Interior Archipelago: “90% of our lives are spent inside. Urban life is an interior affair.” This statement manifests the necessity to invert the canonical approach to read and plan cities, unfolding a new possible stream of research which considers how architecture affects our everyday life.

Climate, or the need to erase the atmospheric conditions, is one of the trigger factors of the production o...

Sunset Magazine Kicked Out of Their Beloved Cliff May-designed HQ

2014-12-17T12:25:00-05:00

In a letter to employees Wednesday, Time Inc. announced that it had sold Sunset’s serene seven-acre Menlo Park, Calif., campus of carefully designed gardens and 1950s ranch-style buildings to Embarcadero Capital Partners, a San Francisco real estate investment and management company.

This is so sad, as it very likely means the demolition of Cliff May's beautiful and quintessentially Californian design. I would have loved to have visited the campus.

I can easily credit Sunset Magazine with being a major influence on my decision to become an architect: as a pre-teen I pored over their 1974 "Garden & Patio Building" book - I literally read every single word multiple times.

My family had a subscription to the magazine, as have I for most of my adult life. In fact, just last night I made a recipe (Corn Flour Orange Chiffon Cake) from the current issue to bring to our office holiday party.

So sad. California 'necters, make sure to go visit this legendary place while you still can! Info on visiting here.