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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...

New book explores the evolution of orthographic projection

2021-01-19T18:13:00-05:00

Mark Ericson, Associate Professor and Chair of the Applied Computer Science - Media Arts program at Woodbury School of Architecture, explores the evolution of orthographic projection in his new book Animating Guarini: An Orthographic Project.

In the book, Mark looks at "the instrumental history of orthographic projection to reacquire the generative techniques of drawing that do not deal with visualization. Animating Guarini is thus a historical account and a reimagining of orthographic projection as a drawing technique that precedes convention."

Mark’s drawings have been published in LOG, 306090, and the catalog for the Museum of Modern Art exhibition Uneven Growth. He collaborated with architect and artist Perry Kulper, who wrote the forward, on the new book.

Washington University publishes “Approach,” a compendium of student work from the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design

2020-04-22T11:57:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis an Archinect School Partner

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to announce the publication of the latest graduate and undergraduate editions of Approach, which celebrate student work produced by architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design students.

"The work featured in both Approach publications reflects how, through critical thinking, research, and unique collaborative structures, our school gives students the means and motivation to improve our world," says Heather Woofter, director of the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. "The publications also evoke the life of the school—a place of experimentation, where our full range of programs combine to create forums for new modes of thinking. Every day, students interact with architects, landscape and urban designers, art...

McHarg Center launches blog to support young design writers

2020-01-15T14:41:00-05:00

The McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design of has launched Ian McBlog, a new online publication dedicated to uplifting the voices of "the rising generation of designers who will lead—and are already leading—the response to our overlapping crises of climate, capitalism, and resurgent fascism."

The blog already features two entries, one from McHarg Center director Billy Fleming explaining some of his rationale for initiating the blog.

Decrying the insular, disconnected, and sluggish nature of conventional academic publishing, Fleming writes, "Our conventional platforms for Very Serious publishing remain stubbornly disconnected from the overlapping crises that now shape every rising generation of designers. They too are slow, small, and focused on tweaking our bodies of knowledge. At their best, our peer-reviewed journals force scholars to slog through years of reviews, revisions, and resubmissions, much of which is dictated by the idiosyncrasies and...

Archinect Sessions: Live Panel on The Current State of LA's Architecture Student Publications

2019-10-28T16:36:00-04:00

On this episode of Archinect Sessions we’re sharing the recording of a panel discussion I moderated last weekend at the A+D Museum, as part of the current exhibition The Los Angeles Schools. The panel brought together five students and three faculty members representing student-led publications from LA’s architecture programs. Rayne Laborde and Phoebe Webster represented UCLA's POOL; Marcelyn Gow represented SCI-Arc’s Offramp; Richard Mapes, Corie Yaguchi and Irvin Shaifa represented SCI-Arc's Underscore; Alvin Huang represented USC’s Supertall; and Stephen Phillips, Cal Poly LA Metro’s Director, represented their program’s hardcover publication LA Ten.

From L to R: Richard Mapes, Irvin Shaifa, Alvin Huang, Rayne Laborde, Phoebe Webster. Photo by Lena Pozdnyakova

Our talk covers a lot of ground, exposing the inner-workings of editing and producing publications in today’s unique and highly transformative media landscape. Our conversations cover issues of editorial decision-making, de...

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...

Archinect Outpost to host Spring Sale May 25th

2019-05-17T18:38:00-04:00

Join us this Saturday, May 25th, 11-2pm for a sale of our curated inventory. Newly displayed and price-reduced items (some as much as 50%!) will be available for purchase at Archinect Outpost, located at 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles CA 90013.

Archinect Outpost.

Come and have a cup of our Brutal coffee and peruse our books, apparel and limited-time sales. If you can't make it to the sale, check out our online store, where we are featuring the same items as those in the retail shop.

We hope to see you there!

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Archinect Outpost is now stocking Real Review 8, featuring interviews with Virgil Abloh and Chelsea Manning

2019-03-28T12:08:00-04:00

10 copies of the newest issue of cult favorite magazine Real Review have recently arrived at Archinect Outpost. With a focus that straddles the line between design and politics and a memorable tagline ('What it means to live today'), Real Review has quickly developed a following.

Spread of Real Review 8 featuring readymades by Nicole Mclaughlin.

Of particular interest with the newest issue is its surprising list of contributors. The issue starts off with an interview conducted between Real Review editor-in-chief Jack Self and Chelsea Manning, the former United States Army soldier who famously disclosed nearly 750,000 military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks. Given that the theme of issue 8 is 'Against from Within,' Self asks Manning about her exposure of military secrets while under its employment. "We are increasingly seeing risky and aggressive confrontational approaches to activism," she responded.

Spread of Real Review 8 featuring images from Virgil Abloh

Further into the is...

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

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...

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.

"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...

Unfolding southamerican utopias: the Clip/Stamp/Fold in Santiago.

2013-06-25T14:35:00-04:00

Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X – 197X takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period, which were published in over a dozen cities. Coined in the early twentieth century to designate progressive literary journals, the term “little magazine” was remobilized during the 1960s to grapple with the contemporary proliferation of independent architectural periodicals.

This month the boundary has been finally crossed. It is because the exhibition and ongoing research project Clip/Stamp/Fold has landed in the south hemisphere by this month until July 2013. Santiago has had the chance for this first landing. The local version of the project became real due to the remarkable work of Fernando Portal, Pablo Brugnoli and Andrea Lathrop, whom gave shape to the Chilean participation on the architectural radical magazines of the 60’s and 70’s.

The selected local magazines were proposed according to the main outline: “radical architecture of little magazines”. In this regard, AUCA was immediately considered as one of the first ones due to its invaluable role as one of the bravest publication according to the social impact in the hard days Chile was facing. Architecture, Urbanism, Construction and Arts configure its name as well as the matching with the aboriginal (mapuche) word, which means Rebel. Also AUCA bore a respectable name because it born in t...

Pure Hardcore Icons Manifesto Book by WAI Think Tank

2013-05-28T18:58:00-04:00

WAI Architecture Think Tank upcoming publication Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture (August 2013) is featured on Artifice Books on Architecture Autumn 2013 Catalog.

The Catalog can be downloaded here.

Pure Hardcore Icons summary:

In the kingdom of architecture the shape reigns supreme. Ever since the beginning of history, pure geometric form has been one of architecture’s recurrent obsessions. A genealogy of buildings shaped as pyramids, spheres, and cubes can be traced back to ancient times, while contemporary projects, either as poured concrete or virtual bytes, often resemble stacked boxes and looping skyscrapers.

Despite torrents of pure shapes flooding with evidence magazine pages and computer screens around the world, architecture lacks a written work to declare its intentions. Pure Hardcore Icons is the first manifesto on pure form in architecture.

WAI Architecture Think Tank, directed by authors Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia,...

Kickstart the next issue of SOILED!

2013-01-24T19:33:00-05:00

Making a mess of the built environment and the politics of space, one issue at a time.

With the arrival of a new year, SOILED has big plans. Building on our first three issues, Groundscrapers, Skinscrapers, and Platescrapers, we aspire to elevate our forthcoming issue No. 4 Windowscrapers: more dynamic, more tactilely pleasurable, and filled with more ephemera for you to soil. Rather than our current model of print-on-demand or lower-resolution PDF download, we seek to do a print run of 1,000 issues through this Kickstarter campaign. Working with a local print house will allow us more freedom to bring our vision to life, to sell SOILED at lower costs, and to distribute issues through independent bookstores, cultural institutions, and communal spaces across Chicago, the US, and beyond.

Get dirty with us in 2013! Help us spread the word far and wide. And did we mention the promise of excellent swag that you could earn by supporting our campaign? You have until February 1st to support this independent publishing endeavor!

More info:
http://soiledzine.org
http://kck....

Kickstart the next issue of SOILED!

2013-01-24T19:33:00-05:00

Making a mess of the built environment and the politics of space, one issue at a time.

More info:
http://soiledzine.org
http://kck....

zawia#00:Change – Newly released publication from Egypt on architecture and design

2012-09-03T12:18:00-04:00

"Zawia#00:Change discusses the significantly changing realities imposed on all social, political and economic systems and their influence on design disciplines. Zawia#00:Change will attempt to demonstrate whether architects are ready to embrace changing ideals and new modes of operation, and whether they are willing to help better people’s lives rather than focusing on glorifying design or architecture."

Zawia is a periodical, English and Arabic publication and collaborative events on architecture, design & urbanism. The first volume Zawia#00:Change is out now! It features contributions from Saskia Sassen, Stefano Boeri, Joseph Grima, WAI architecture think tank, Carlo Ratti, Markus Miessen and many more.Zawia#00:Change will be exceptionally available for preview from Zawia’s website [www.zawia.co]

SOILED's third installment: Platescrapers

2012-04-02T11:24:00-04:00

Platescrapers navigates itinerant fare, comestible politics, and gastro-ritual to purvey stories about social issues and exaggerated realities; each story illustrates food as a monument to galvanize the public.

SOILED is an architectural periodical based in Chicago. It investigates latent issues in the built environment and the politics of space.

SOILED's latest issue, entitled Platescrapers, is out! With three issues to date, SOILED is available in both a print edition and a free downloadable PDF via www.soiledzine.org. SOILED is published by CARTOGRAM architecture + urban design.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Stewart Hicks, Allison Newmeyer, and Joseph Altshuler challenge us to play with our food.
Annie Lambla connects yogurt making to dairy farms while observing the Midwest's culture.
Thomas Hillier recounts the exodus and edible nostalgia of an English twosome.
Greg Corso champions the inclusion of cannabis cultivation into architectural vernacular.
Kyle Andrew Sturgeon strategizes an infrastructure to combat the invasion of Asian carp.
Eylül Kethüda choreographs a mega-event around victuals, monuments, and mob mentality.
Francesco Vedovato sets the table with an ec...

MONU #15 "Post-Ideological Urbanism" - Review by Michael Hirschbichler

2012-03-15T21:05:00-04:00

In its latest issue #15 Rotterdam-based MONU magazine set out on a daring journey to investigate, as chief editor Bernd Upmeyer proclaims, “one of the most fascinating and biggest issues of our time and in culture, or what is left of it: the non-ideological – or better post-ideological – conditions of our society when it comes to cities.” At a time when the news is full of reports on breathtaking riots erupting in European cities, revolutionary chain reactions and their cruel suppression in the Arabic world, the rejuvenation and continuation of the world’s most isolated and propagandistically charged dictatorial empire in Asia, among many others, assuming a post-ideological condition might seem contradictory. Now even more than in recent history, ideological battles are being fought and their physical and violent revolutionary implementation transforms the reality of many urban territories. How can it be that, when it comes to urbanism, the non-ideological and post-ideological gai...

EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS – Limited Edition Book

2012-01-04T14:10:00-05:00

Our friends at eVolo have sent us a copy of their limited edition book, EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS, and boy, it's a festival for eyes and biceps. At 1224 pages, the book measures 9″ x 11.5″ x 2.5″ and calls for extra sturdy coffee tables.

EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS celebrates six years of the internationally acclaimed eVolo Skyscraper Competition and compiles 300 outstanding high-rise architecture projects selected from the over 4000 submissions since its inception in 2006. The contest recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations. Studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution are some of the multi-layered elements of the competition. It is an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of dynamic and adaptive vertical communities.

The projects are divided into six chapters describi...