LITTLE EDITORIALS
Archizines that present themselves as writing about architecture and urbanism without emphasizing one specific field of interest. Although their editors point at varied reasons for running a zine: to share emerging ideas among friends, schoolmates, or office members; to provide a space for a more informal, loose, experimental writing; or to create an alternative to the increased rapid consumption of architectural images by slowing things down and writing more considered texts. ARCHITECTURE IN GENERAL
Archizines that publish the thoughts of architects and theorists alongside the thoughts of other disciplines: geographers, historians, philosophers, photographers, etc. They seek to approach architecture in a broad cultural context by investigating its relationship with other realms, such as politics, economics, and the arts. INTERDISCIPLINARY
Archizines that emphasize nature or contemporary landscape architecture as their main field of interest, investigating the juxtaposition of natural and man-made environments, as well as unexpected emergences of nature in urbanity. LANDSCAPE
Archizines with an emphasis on local issues, raising problems and investigating peculiarities inherent in a specific place. SPECIFIC PLACE
Archizines that emphasize their interest in thoughts on architecture and cities from a non-architect's perspective. This includes a focus on buildings or interiors created by their inhabitants or other non-professional builders. NON-PROFESSIONAL
Archizines that specifically concentrate on publishing works of lesser-known emerging architects. LESS KNOWN OFFICES AND ARCHITECTS
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A Magazine About Places Loofy Junk Jet Sámi Huksendáidda Public Library Stream Criticat Face b Archive of Intuitive Structures Generalist Apartamento Kritik Club Donny Touching on Architecture Fresh Meat New Geographies Tyrannus The Weather Ring MAP Candide A4 Matzine
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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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