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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.

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 Ma...

V ideo de la mesa redonda en UPC Commons 

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.

(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...

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. Me...

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 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.

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.

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.

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 de...

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 th...

The House That Design Journalism Built: Observatory: Design Observer Rick Poynor The House That Design Journalism Built "The continuing closure of print publications without equally auspicious online platforms to replace them is not a good sign". Reflexió de Poynor sobre les publicacions sobre diseny. Des dels anys 80 , a propòsit d' un número   de  DESIGN, fins la crítica publicada avui. Més enllà de la  nostàlgia proposa alternatives i exemples. També coincideix en que les revistes son una perfecte font per una recerca històrica. (Veure també el seguit de comentaris després de l’ article).

http://thatnewdesignsmell.net/ A  Desing Observer,   Rick Poynor, ( The House That Design Journalism Built: Observatory: Design Observer ),    don una  referencia d' una nova revista -web a considerar. La  versió impresa es perllonga en les opinions  recollides a la pàgina web i així s' encoratja el diàleg. "The continuing closure of print publications without equally auspicious online platforms to replace them is not a good sign. So let’s hope for renewal. Last week I did, in fact, see a new publication, issue 0 of a critical design magazine with the boldly acerbic, though admittedly slightly off-putting title  That New Design Smell . The magazine, divided between web and print, is conceived and edited  by Michèle  Champagne , an ambitious Canadian MFA graduate from the  Sandberg Institute  in Amsterdam, with a crisp, “flight attendant” persona — her tutors’ words, not mine — and a nicely cultivate...

http://www.domusweb.it/en/book-review/bracket-san-rocco-candide-a-cross-reading-of-three-new-print-magazines/ New publications use strategies both familiar and innovative to take on contemporary architectural criticism.   A   book review   by   Roberto Zancan   in DOMUS  8/april/2011.

Storefront for Art and Architecture | Programming: series  20  april , 2012 ARCHIZINES LIVE: Symposium on Publishing Practices 5 Manifesto Series on: MEDIUM / SPEED / HISTORY / CRISIS / DESIRE In conjunction with the exhibition  Archizines , Storefront hosts a 2-day symposium on publishing practices as part of its Manifesto Series.    Throughout its exhibition tour,  Archizines  has provided platforms for architectural research and debate, demonstrating the residual love of the printed word and paper page. Made by architects, artists and students, the publications included in the exhibition add an important, and often radical, addition to architectural discourse that will be further explored through the Manifesto Series.    Storefront will live-stream the event at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/archizines-live. The 2-day symposium will include a Manifesto Series consisting of presentations on themes of medium/speed/history/...

InfraNet Lab  is a research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics. The laboratory posits the argument that a body of unique built works continues to arise out of the complex negotiation of, and competition for, biotic and abiotic resources. Operating in a manner similar to infrastructures, these works have evolved to merge landscape, urbanism, and architecture into a sophisticated mutant assemblage of surfaces, containers, and conduits. The globe’s networked ecologies of food, water, energy, and waste have established new infrastructures and forms of urbanism linking dispersed entities. These agglomerations evolve and shift as resources are uncovered or depleted. While these ecologies exist at the service of our contemporary lifestyles, they have typically remained hidden from view and from the public conscience. Yet as resources of food, fuel and water begin to run scarce, new resources are mined and new networks develop. Long accep...

THE ARSENALOF EXCLUSION & INCLUSION  is   a blog from   Interboro Partners, a New York City-based office of architects, urban designers, and planners, working together to improve cities with innovative, experimental design ideas. Interboro is led by Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, and Georgeen Theodore.  We may see projects, diary, awards, Cvs in their site INTERBORO . An excerpt f rom the definition of the blog  : “Cities exist to bring people together, but cities are pretty good at keeping people apart, too. this is a blog about “weapons” used by architects, planners, policy-makers, developers, real estate brokers, community activists and other urban actors to wage the ongoing war between integration and segregation, between nimby (not in my back yard), and wimby (welcome in my back yard)”. They are preparing a book: The arsenal of exclusion & inclusion that is announced to be published by Actar.

306090, Inc . is an independent non-profit arts stewardship organization. Since its founding in 2001, 306090 has worked to support architect professionals and students by organizing publications and events geared towards fostering a community of ideas and exchange within the field of design. Exploring contemporary issues in architecture “from every angle,” 306090 is dedicated to opening up architectural discourse by publishing design projects, critical essays, and historic inquiries across a range of places, people and practices. Comprised of new work and untested ideas from around the world, 306090's books are an arena of open criticism, addressing contemporary conditions in political, technological and artistic disciplines on the basis of how architecture can address them. Founded in 2001 by two architecture students and published twice yearly, 306090's Architecture Journal was an independent series of volumes dedicated to promoting the work and the interests of stude...

AFFR Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam. Ademas de la próxima edición del festival y reportages de las pasadas ediciones la web tiene otros utensilios: Un Festival on line perpetuo donde se ofrecen  algunos cortos, y enlaces con films para visionar . Un calendario de festivales en otras ciudades. Trailers. Reseñas de films. Colecciones temàticas. Noticias. Y más.

1990-2000 History From Any Corporation web site is  the following exerpt: " In the decade leading to the new millennium, Anyone sponsored ten multidisciplinary and cross-cultural conferences on the condition of architecture at the end of the millennium. The results of each conference - the participants' papers and edited transcripts of the discussions - are published in books of the same name. The conferences, which took place between 1991-2000, were held at different sites around the globe and explored different themes based on architectural definitions of the ten compound any words in the English dictionary". Index of Conferences held in:  http://www.anycorp.com/any_conferences.php   and  Any books published  in:   http://www.anycorp.com/any_books.php This post is only a introductory  note for a further  deep study  required .

(May 1993-oct 2000) From ANY Corporation  web site is the following excerpt: " The bimonthly magazine  ANY  critically examined architecture, its relationships to other disciplines, and its cultural role in general at the end of the millennium. ANY, the name of which both reads as something undecidable (any magazine) and as an acronym for Architecture New York, involved architects, critics, theorists, sociologists, economists and others from around the world who address issues in architecture that bear on contemporary culture. The publication, which began in May 1993, also sponsored public seminars to open up the discussion of themes presented in the magazine. Publication ceased in October 2000 with number 27". A index of published issues and content  is in :  http://www.anycorp.com/any_issues.php Esta es una nota que necesitaría de una explicación más extensa, fruto de un estudio más   detallado,  pendiente de realizar. 

From about in Log web site we extract what is Log: "Log is an independent journal on architecture and the contemporary city that presents criticism and commentary in a literary format designed to resist the seductive power of the image in media, while identifying and elaborating the central concerns of architectural thinking and production today. A carefully crafted compendium of essays, interviews, and brief "observations," Log provides an ongoing international platform for the exchange of ideas, both bearing on and emanating from architecture and the city, among a curious audience of readers, including architects, designers, students, scholars, and artists. Published three times a year, general "open" issues are punctuated by occasional thematic issues on prescient topics.  Founded in 2003, Log is a project of the Anyone Corporation, a non-profit organization in New York City devoted to advancing architectural thought and writing". In particular...

“ operarios del espacio público” Són: Andre Albuquerque – arquitecte Cristina Braschi – arquitecta Jerome Gottardi – arquitecto Laura Riera – ciències ambientals Nuria Navarro – biòloga Olga de Marco – dissenyadora industrial Remedios Vincent – belles arts Roberta de Nanni – arquitecta Una altra ciutat és possible. Una ciutat on l'absurd legal que deixa a famílies sense llar i recolza l'existència de solars i cases buides no hi te cabuda. Aquestes sentències, tot i encoratjadores, resulten, per molts, utopies. Accions com les que narra aquest bloc són incitacions pràctiques que conviden als escèptics a recuperar l'esperança i les ganes de lluitar per una ciutat millor (i, per tant, per un futur millor). Si més no, més justa i saludable. Avui ESTA ES UNA PLAZA , quatre anys enrere, no. Un grup de joves amb formació universitària (faig aquesta puntualització, molt a pesar meu, per evitar els atacs que usualment es dirigeixen...

“ DE ARQUITECTURA Y URBANISMO DE BARCELONA” Cansats de sentir sempre les mateixes històries sobre la ciutat i l'urbanisme de Barcelona els arquitectes Alejandro Bahamón i Ana María Álvarez s'han llençat al carrer, bloc en mà, amb el propòsit de retratar experiències urbanes pròpies i compartir-les amb aquells navegants inquiets que defugen la crítica estereotipada. La vivència dels llocs en primera persona, la relació sensorial amb l'entorn, la vinculació emocional amb la ciutat...són part de les premises des d'on aquests dos joves arquitectes construeixen els seus relats. EL lloc web té un format similar al blog i les entrades es classifiquen, principalmentm, segons quatre grups: AGENDA: proposen un seguit d'esdeveniments vinculats a la ciutat, l'arquitectura i l'urbanisme que destaquen pel seu interès. El criteri és refinat i selectiu. Molt actualitzat i amb un bon nombre de propostes. ARQUITECTURA / URBANISMO: és el cos del ...

“ reconeixent la ciutat” Caminar Barcelona és un curs del departament d'urbanisme de la ETSAB orientat, principalment, als estudiants amb beca ERASMUS. L'objectiu del durs és conèixer (o segons anuncien en el blog: reconèixer) diversos barris o zones de la ciutat de Barcelona. La metodologia de treball és la següent: Totes les classes es fan a peu de carrer, fora de la facultat. Cada classe te lloc a un barri o zona diferent i mai la dirigeix la mateixa persona. L'encarregat d'impartir la classe és algú (arquitecte, urbanista o cap de les dues coses) vinculat al lloc i bon coneixedor d'aquest. Abans de cada classe els encarregats del curs fan arribar als alumnes l'itinerari i els comuniquen en quin indret de la ciutat tindrà lloc el tret de sortida del taller setmanal. Donat que, com he dit anteriorment, la majoria d'estudiants del curs es troben d'intercanvi, el curs suposa una oportunitat d'or per conèixer de primera mà ...