The exhibition, curated by Elias Redstone, originated as an online project and showcases 60 architecture magazines, fanzines and journals from over 20 countries. From Australia and Argentina to the UK and USA, these independent publications are reframing how people relate to their built environment – taking comment and criticism out of just an architectural arena and into everyday life. — archizines.com
We're honored to have both our new Archinect News Digest 'zine, as well as Bracket, included in the upcoming ARCHI-ZINES exhibition at the AA in London.
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Here is an old review I wrote on Bracket [on farming]
Dinner is On The Table: BRACKET on Farming
I Just finished reading the 40 plus essays in BRACKET on Farming. Food production is a not much talked about subject and I don't remember seeing that many designs so the opportunity to survey this is welcome.
After digesting as much as I could for two weeks I split the content three ways: One-third didn't grab my interest; another third had something to keep me reading. The last third kept me thinking and worth the effort. There are some diamonds here if one digs.
All of the essays have something interesting to say. Lots of diagrams, proposals, presentations in color and b&w. A few overviews and art-audience related works. But the main emphasis is on practical solutions and for me the solution based presentations were the best ones. The too-many software generated graphics were an overkill and as a reader I could do without so much charting.
Despite the graphics assault the Urban farming projects were the ones I keyed into. The rural based ones were ones I didn't get into much but that is also my bias. I had to go back and re-look at those to get a better understanding.
An example. At first glance the vertical PIG CITY proposal seemed a horrible idea. But with a re-read I got the Dutch context and harvesting need of pork within Europe. This piece as all of the essays had lots of facts and statistics as backup.
One that kept me thinking about and re-designing internally was an urban Orchard and farm from Alexandros Avlonitis WHAT WE ARE IS WHAT WE EAT. . The design and essay, not ground-breaking and pretty straight-forward could be presented and implemented right off.
There are a lot of ideas in this compilation and the editors did a good job at keeping the focus on solutions. I could go back several times for inspiration.
eric chavkin
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