El blog de Lebbeus Woods queda como homenaje.

Lebbeus Woods nos dejó huerfanos de su blog en agosto pasado, ahora hemos conocido su defunción.
Vease a manera de necrologica el blog de The Guardian, que recoje diversos testimonios, Puede versa en especial el testimonio de Joseph Grima y el de Geoff Magauff como blogueros, o el de Neil Spiller como dibujante.

Shaping architectural discourse from magazines.

20/20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse Edited by Kirk Wooller, with a preface by Brett Steele 20/20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse brings together editors from 20 leading contemporary architectural magazines to discuss collectively the role editors play in shaping architectural discourse. Each of the contributors has responded to a set of 20 questions on the multiple conditions under which particular ideas and words enter architectural discourse through publication. The resulting critical positions and observations are as diverse as the magazines from which they originate, and range from the oldest student-edited journal (Perspecta) to a research collective that at the time of writing was on the cusp of being launched ([bracket]). Also included are contributions from the editors of 306090, AA Files, Actar,  An Architektur, Footprint, Grey Room, Harvard Design Magazine, Hunch,Interstices, Log, Manifold, Mark, New Geographies, OASE, Praxis, Scapes, UME andVolume. 20/20 is a timely publication that provides today's architectural reader with concise viewpoints from the editors behind the magazines behind architectural culture. View sample pages AA publications  See also another post from archidose    http://archidose.org/wp/2011/10/03/2020/

Arquitectura en la red

Video de la mesa redonda en UPC Commons 

Designers & Books. Fair NY 2012 y siempre .

Este fin de semana en NY,   DESIGNERS&BOOKS FAIR.

Puede seguirse la web, con la lista de expositores, las conferencias paralelas.
El mejor termómetro del mundo editorial especializado en inglés.Autores, editores y lectores se encuentran en la feria. 

De entre los actos seleccionamos:

Buildings and Books: Four Architecture Critics in Conversation
From Type to Tablet: Publishers and Editors Talk about Directions in Design Book Publishing
Keynote: Designing the Future of the Design Book

La web  y el blog    DESIGNERS & BOOKS  mantienen el clima  más allá de las ediciones anuales.

things magazine | things weblog . About objects and their meanings

(From "About") 

Things magazine was originally founded in 1994 by a group of writers and historians based at the Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal College of Art. things embodies the belief that objects can open up new ways of understanding the world, building on MA research and taking a curatorial eye out into the world. We’re now an independent magazine, a home for new writing – essays, reviews, short stories and poems – about objects and their meanings. This website began as a way of promoting the magazine but evolved into a regular weblog from September 2001. The site also contains photography galleries, special projects, searchable archives, ten years of weblog posts and the occasional on-line only article. To order back issues of the magazine or read our archives (1 through to 19-20), visit our archive page. To buy, click on ‘add to basket’ and our friends at PayPal will handle the rest. Our printing schedule used to be biannual, but now it’s just occasional. This means you can’t subscribe any more, but if you’d like to be notified of new issues, drop us a line and we’ll keep you up to date. The latest issue, 19-20, is now available to buy."

CLOG slows things down

CLOG on line               http://www.clog-online.com/


"CLOG explores, from multiple viewpoints and through a variety of means, a single subject particularly relevant to architecture now."
CLOG slows things down. Each issue explores, from multiple viewpoints and through a variety of means, a single subject particularly relevant to architecture now. Succinctly, on paper, away from the distractions and imperatives of the screen".



"Online press, blogs, tweets, social media, and other digital forums have drastically increased the speed at which architectural imagery is distributed and consumed today. While an unprecedented amount of work is available to the public, the lifespan of any single design or topic has been reduced in the profession's collective consciousness to a week, an afternoon, a single post-an endlessly changing architecture du jour. In the deluge, excellent projects receive the same fleeting attention as mediocre ones. Meanwhile, mere exposure has taken the place of thoughtful engagement, not to mention a substantive discussion. 

"While CLOG is about architecture, we encourage individuals from any field or background to contribute. We are interested in all forms of critique and commentary, including, but not limited to, images, graphics, diagrams, and/or text. Ultimately, the form of each contribution should be determined by whatever most effectively communicates the idea."

YOUNG JOURNALS' AT COOPER UNION

YOUNG JOURNALS

Monday, April 9th.   2012
The Cooper Union Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square

(Download the flyer)

When it comes to small architecture publications, something is clearly in the air, as demonstrated by the relatively recent increase in architecture journals and zines worldwide.

This roundtable, moderated by Log editor and founder Cynthia Davidson, will focus on young architecture journals in the NYC-area by bringing together the editors of CLOG (clog-online.com), the editors of Another Pamphlet (anotherpamphlet.com) and a mix of founding and current editors of Pidgin (pidginmagazine.com) to both situate each publication in a recent historical context, and to discuss the reasons for and practicalities of starting up and running architectural journals in New York today.

Sponsored by the Cooper Union Student Lecture Series
Free and Open to the Public

Video  

The New City Reader: A Newspaper Of Public Space

The New City Reader: A Newspaper Of Public Space 

The New City Reader was a temporary newspaper  published from October 6, 2010 to January 9, 2011 as part of the Last Newspaper exhibition at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York.

AMO la curiosidad constante (Koolhaas)

Ayer, Rem Koolhas fue galardonado como doctor honorifico por la Universidad Vrij de Amsterdam , por sus destacadas contribuciones a la arquitectura.

En su discurso de aceptación Koolhaas mencionó su "constante curiosidad" como motor de su trabajo tanto como proyectista , como ensayista. (OMA  y  AMO).

Le antecedieron los discursos de Michel ter Hark , Dean de la Facultad de Artes , y de Kristien Hemmerechts, escritor belga.

HTC Experimental practices in Architectural History Theory and Criticism

La intervención de David Gissen en Postopolis LA  2009,  reseñada por Dan Hill de CityofSound,    sirve para referirnos  a HTC Experiments  una excelente página - blog de especial interes para estudiantes de post-grado.

Johannes Trithemius en contra de la imprenta

Against print 

( Tomado del blog de Kazys Varnelis)

"No hay nada más molesto que oir a  personas de edad (o jovenes) eruditas  lamentando la falta de rigor intelectual on line. Seguramente estas personas educadas han oído hablar de Johannes Trithemius, el abad de Sponheim que publicó su De laude Scriptorum Manualium, la defensa de la tradición  manuscrita frente a  la imprenta en 1492. Nuestros conocimentos no eran más rigurosos en la década  postmoderna de 1980 o postestructuralista de  1990 para no mencionar  la época heroica de la década de los 1920 que ahora. Hay un  montón de material que  se publicó en aquel entonces  que no merecía la tinta y el papel ni el costo de imprimir. Pero, en vez de lamentar la impresión, vamos a trabajar juntos para romper (paywalls) quotas, físicas o electrónicas. Aquellos de nosotros que estamos en la acadèmia, que no estamos en el negocio del conocimiento, sinó en la  comunidad del  conocimiento, una comunidad que trasciende los viejos límites, vamos a partir de ello."

On Experimental Writing | Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)

On Experimental Writing | Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA):

Albert Ferré, Pedro Gadanho, David Howes, Naomi Stead and Kazys Varnelis

On Experimental Writing is an open discussion about different approaches to writing about architecture, urbanism and criticism today. These new endeavors begin by borrowing from the logic of other genres and forms like narratives, short stories, novels, science-fiction, journalism, poetry, tourist guides, ethnographic descriptions and others.

This direction has generated interesting interdisciplinary results with an entertaining character, and one of the consequences is a growing interest from a less specialized public. There could be many reasons for these new directions: perhaps these ways of writing, or the use of different “editorial instruments”, have a greater capacity to describe and capture contemporary complexity, and more appropriately confront the world of architecture and urbanism.

These experiments lead also to the establishment of different containers for writing, such as anthologies, short story collections, archives of records, blogs—new forms that can introduce a varied panorama and allow for unexpected perspectives on a specific topic.

This mix of genres can produce new content and new understandings with a mix of real and imaginative ‘facts’ that add an emotional character. The traditional reading of a city or a building is brought new layers such as atmosphere, objectivity, and fantasy.

Invited guests will discuss and challenge these new editorial directions from their own perspective and based on their editorial experiences.

Introduction: Giovanna Borasi
Moderator: David Howes
Guests: Albert Ferré, Pedro Gadanho, Naomi Stead and Kazys Varnelis

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Event information:
10 February 2011, 6:00 pm
Click here for the Facebook event.