We're excited to announce the release of the first issue in the Archinect Zine! This is a collaboration between Archinect and our friend Christian Chaudhari's publishing initiative Friction House.
Creator and producer of the Archinect Zine is Christian Chaudhari, LA-based architect, writer, cultural observer. "Strategically place it anywhere in your house... Impress the mailman, get the chicks (or dudes), stump your professor, or that smart ass friend of yours. The benefits other than knowledge are endless!", he tongue-in-cheek lists some of the Zine's benefits.
Christian continues to explain what you can expect in the Zine premiere AI WEIWEI issue:
"The most absurd bits of Chinese culture, art news and dissident activism directly or remotely related to Ai Weiwei (crazy awesome Chinese artist who got in a hella lot of trouble with China, in case you live under a rock) printed in this ultra compact, super graphic, mega-bitchin magazine. A collaboration between the awesome clearinghouse of architecture related content, Archinect.com and the new hacker-punk, in-yo-face, i-don't-care-what-you-think stylings of Friction House Publishing."
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It's worth it for the image of the jumping Ai Weiwei alone!
It's worth it for the image of the jumping Ai Weiwei alone!
This cover is the epitome of bad taste. You are disgusting.
jcr, why is this about taste? what is your problem with the image? i for one, would be more interested to know that about your comment. why don't you qualify your opinion?
Ai WeiWei pushes the envelope so I guess it makes sense to have such a striking image on the cover...its just too bad this isn't something I can keep in my office.
jcr, if you think that's bad test you'd best avoid visiting the internet entirely.
Congrats on the new venture, Archinect! The zine format has always been much more interesting to me than most websites - I'd like to think zines will keep sticking around.
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