new voluntary economy of architectural publishing is refreshingly autonomous, if not limited by its own mon etary shortcomings. Here we’ve attempted to visualize the landscape of small magazines, and the various edi torial strategies taken, based on their own descriptions.
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Over the past five years there’s been a surge in small independent architecture magazines, as captured in Elias Redstone’s roving exhibit Archizines. These magazines are often run voluntarily, and produced through grants, crowd-funding, and from the editor’s own pockets. This
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Archizines that emphasize their aim to investigate the role of architecture and design in a broader social context and to question its ability to go beyond providing shelter or aesthetic considerations. THE ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE
Archizines that focus on public space, seeking strategies to improve it or to reveal different ways of seeing and comprehending it. PUBLIC SPACE
Kerb Maximum Maxim MMX Plat +Print on demand Soiled Towards an Architecture of Opposition What About It? Boundaries Studio© Pollen Friendly Fire The Draftery Anza The Modernist The Unlimited Edition Another Pamphlet Clog Cornell Journal of Architecture Sin-título A.Mag T-R-E-M-O-R-S
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P.E.A.R Preston is my Paris MAS Context Print on demand Thresholds Plot Journal Illustratif Piseagrama Bracket Scapegoat Proposals Le Journal Spéciale’Z Horizonte Urban Guerilla San Rocco City Vision Inventario Too Much Scopio Engawa Print on demand Foreign Architects Switzerland Block City As Material Civic City Cahier One:Twelve The New City Reader
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Archizines seeking to publish thoughts on varied issues that usually slip out of the conventional architectural magazines' field of view. PERIPHERY OF ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE
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Archizines that choose not only a single topic for each issue, but even a concrete single object or single practice, presenting thoughts from varied contributors on it. SINGLE OBJECT
Achizines that choose to tell an architectural story mainly through images. A GRAPHIC OR PHOTOGRAPHIC STORY
Interdisciplinary zines with a special focus on architecture, seeking to approach it in a current economic context and critically analyze its relationship with the capitalist system. ARCHITECTURE AND CAPITALISM
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