Hablamos con Tomás Ruiz-Rivas, co-editor de Centro de Investigación sobre la Institucionalidad del Arte (CIIA), un proyecto cuyo objetivo principal es analizar críticamente el sistema del arte para entender las condiciones —tanto materiales como ideológicas— de su producción, distribución y consumo. Como resultado de las investigaciones CIIA publica un artzine trimestral, diseñado como contenedor flexible de textos […]

Erik van der Weijde is a prolific Dutch photographer and publisher who frequently works in Brazil. He self-publishes much of his work through his imprint 4478ZINE. This collection of books and zines offer both original and borrowed images, often presented as an inventory of items – fighter jets, hand guns, sandals, teddy bears, architecture of […]

Clive Phillpot es un comisario de exposiciones, escritor y bibliotecario inglés. Entre 1977 y 1994 fue Director de la Biblioteca del Museo de Arte Moderno (MoMA) en Nueva York, donde fundó y comisarió la Collección de Libros de Artista. Anteriormente fue el bibliotecario de la Chelsea School of Art, en Londres. Ha escrito y editado […]

Volume magazine was founded in 1995 by Archis Publishers, Columbia University’s C-Lab and OMA’s research Think Tank AMO, somehow receiving the baton of former Dutch magazine Archis. Since its launching and through 41 inspiring issues, Volume has proved to be one of the more influential and active architecture publications, mapping emergent architecture scenarios, anticipating new […]

Fulcrum is a free architectural publication founded in 2011 by Graham Baldwin, Aram Mooradian and Jack Self, as a weekly circular printed on Bedford Press at the Architectural Association.  With a vertiginous weekly frequency, Fulcrum offers a platform for both well-known and young writers, to express themselves outside the corporate model. Read by more than […]

Indexnewspaper is an architecture magazine founded and edited by Amélia Brandão Costa and Rodrigo da Costa Lima: two young and hyperactive architects based in Porto, where a part from printing Indexnewspaper they also run their own practice and organize the well-known summer school Porto Academy, which gathers every year at the FAUP some of the most interesting names of contemporary architecture. Theirs, is […]

Quaderns is the journal of the Architects Association of Catalonia. With 265 issues to date, it is one of the most long-standing and well-established architecture and urbanism journals in Spain. Since Quaderns was founded in 1944 it has been steadily around, with successive editorial projects leaded by various editorial teams selected through competitions. Ethel Baraona, Guillermo López, Anna Puigjaner and José Zabala are the engine of Quaderns’ present editorial stage, together with Mario Ballesteros, who was part of the team along the three first issues. […]

Paula V. Alvarez: You define SOCKS as a “non-linear journey through distant territories of human imagination”. I am personally very interested in contextualizing this definition in relation with the transformation of our habitat (and design conditions) under the development of media technology along the past two decades. […]

For how long the compulsive compsumption of images and compressed reflections will remain an acceptable way to approach architecture? The range of readers who demand the pleasure of enjoying a good publication in their hands is surprisingly growing. As the abuse of commercial and acritical content is being detrimentral to architecture itself, the labor of publishing houses committed with knowledge management and quality is becoming increasingly appreciated.

Garcia Frankowski is a creative practice formed by Cruz García (San Juan, 1983), architect, artist and writer from Puerto Rico graduated by the University of Puerto Rico, and Nathalie Frankowski (Dundee, 1985), architect, poetess and artist graduated by the Ecole French Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture of Paris La Villette. […]