An explosion of little architectural magazines in
the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation
in architectural culture, as the magazines acted as a
site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold takes
stock of seventy little magazines from this period that
were published in over a dozen cities. The book brings
together a remarkable range of documents and original
research which the project has produced during its
continuous travels over the last four years starting
with the memorable exhibition at the Storefront for Art
and Architecture in November 2006. The book features
transcripts from the Small TalksA" events at Storefront
in which editors and designers were invited to discuss
their magazines; a stocktaking of over 100 significant
issues that tracks the changing density and progression
of the little magazine phenomenon; transcripts of more
than forty interviews with magazine editors and
designers from all over the world; a selection of
magazine facsimiles that have been fully reproduced at
three-quarter scale; and a fold out poster, inspired by
the exhibition's printed wallpaper, that offers a mosaic
image of more than 1,200 covers examined during the
research. Just as each iteration of the exhibition is an
open-ended collaboration with the visitors and with a
different group of editors, institutions, and collectors
who provide a different set of original magazines in
each city, this catalogue documents a work in progress,
hoping to stimulate further discussion and research. The
book features original by a galaxy of remarkable
magazine makers: Takefumi Aida and Minoru Takeyama,
Ernesto Alva, Jean Aubert, Isabelle Auricoste, Stephen
Bann, Stefano Boeri, Oriol Bohigas, Yve-Alain Bois,
Andrea Branzi, Pierre Clement, Peter Cook, Dennis
Crompton, Peter Crump, Pietro Derossi, Peter Eisenman,
Gunther Feuerstein, Hal Foster, Kenneth Frampton,
Mildred Friedman, Mario Gandelsonas, Edith Girard,
Olivier Girard, Jorge Gleason Peart, Nancy Goldring,
Steven Holl, Hans Hollein, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Rosalind
Krauss, Ugo La Pietra, Miguel Lawner, Lisa Licitra
Ponti, Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier, Jacques Lucan,
Alessandro Mendini, William Menking, Robin Middleton,
Hans Mol, Rafael Moneo, Peter Murray, Patrice Noviant,
John Outram, Grahame Shane, Dennis Sharp, Alison Sky,
Manuel de Sola-Morales, Philip Steadman, Suzanne
Stevens, Bernard Tschumi, Roel van Duyn, Anthony Vidler,
Stanislaus von Moos, Michael Webb, David Wild, James
Wines, Tom Woolley Beatriz Colomina is Professor of
Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in
Media and Modernity at Princeton University. Craig
Buckley teaches at the Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, where
he is also the Director of Print Publications.
Clip/Stamp/Fold Research Team: Craig Buckley, Leonardo,
Diaz-Borioli, Anthony Fontenot, Urtzi Grau,, Lisa Hsieh,
Alicia Imperiale, Lydia Kallipoliti, Olympia Kazi,
Daniel Lopez-Perez, Joaquim Moreno, Irene Sunwoo.
|
|