The Archizines world touring will open at Object Gallery in Sydney, Australia today April 4 from 6-8pm. The Exhibition curated by Elias Redstone will display the WAIzine ( read part 1 and part 2) alongside 90 of the finest architectural zines around the globe.
Photo by Phil Arnold
The Archizines exhibition showcasing 90 independent architectural publications including the WAIzine (don’t forget the check the WAIzine 1 and WAIzine 2 on ISSUU) was shown at the Banvard Gallery of the Knowlton School of Architecture, in Columbus, Ohio (Feb. 1- Mar. 8). Archizines world tour would soon move to Sydney, and Los Angeles. Stay tuned to WAI for more info.
Photo by Phil Arnold
Photo by Phil Arnold
Photo by Tobias Titz
Photos by Tobias TitzThe traveling exhibition curated by Elias Redstone has opened its 2013 circuit at the Design Hub of the RMIT University. The exhibition that includes the WAIzine has been expanded to include 90 of the most refreshing independent architectural publications around the world.
Photo by Tobias Titz
Photo by Tobias Titz
Photo by Tobias Titz
Photo by Tobias Titz
Photo by Tobias Titz
The World Tour of the Archizines Exhibition has just opened in the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak Technical University in Slovakia. The exhibition that started the 5th of November will be on display until November 23.
Next stop of the Archizines show is Dublin.
For more info stay tuned to WAI.
Opening events of Archizines Santiago
Image from Plataforma Arquitectura
The Archizines exhibition displaying now 80 contemporary architectural publications has opened its doors to the public in el Centro Gabriela Mistral in the Chilean Capital. Go and read the WAIzine and other independent magazines.
Remember that apart from the limited edition printed issues the WAIzine 1, and WAIzine 2 can be read on ISSUU.
Housetelier view from the street at night: urban lantern
For the Beijing Design Week WAI responded to an invitation to rethink the Dashila District through specific architectural interventions that could renovate the area.
The result is the Housetelier, which reuses the courtyard typology of the Chinese hutong and converts it into a mixture of atelier, house, gallery and office.
Courtyard view: atelier, gallery and office share a bath of natural light
Catalyst
Can architecture be an urban catalyst? How to regenerate an urban zone with interventions of specific forms of architecture?
By designing a space based on the three points of work, exhibit and live, the Housetelier creates the ideal conditions to attract creative enterprises that could enhance the urban context in the Dashila District both by contributing to its micro economy and by fomenting cultural and intellectual exchange through activities and events.
Siteplan Dashila
Program
Conceived as an architectural prototype for urban re-development, the Housetelier integrates office space, gallery space, and living space in a seamless architectural strategy. By creating spaces that are visually related to a central courtyard, but that could also be accessed independently, the Housetelier could be used by up to three different tenants simultaneously.
The first level of the building situates at each of the four sides of the courtyard an atelier, service space (kitchen, storage, and restrooms), office space, and gallery space in a sequence of spaces that relate visually and spatially.
The Second Level of the building includes a residential apartment whose main spaces are arranged around the central courtyard.
View from the street at day: abstract box
Lantern
Treated with a translucent polycarbonate main façade, the Housetelier looks radically neutral during the day, while it turns into a kaleidoscopic lantern during the night, inviting those who wander around to discover the contents of the building.
Plan Level 1
Plan Level 2
Sections
The Archizines exhibition goes to the École Spéciale d’Architecturein Paris. The Exhibition will be on display from the 6th of September, until the 27 of the same month.
The World Tour of the Archizines exhibition opens in Osaka at the design museum de sign de> the 6th of September and in Tokyo at the Tokyo Book Fair the 21st of September. Archizines features theWAIzine amongst 60 top independent architecture publications around the world. The Exhibition will be on display in Osaka until September 17 and in Tokyo until September 23.
Magazine Library X opened to the public. The tenth edition of the magazine showcase makes available in Japan for the first time the WAIzine and the exhibition catalog of What About It?. WAI has also made available limited edition prints of Cities of the Avant-Garde, and Wall Stalker.
The exhibition will be on display until the 13th of May at Hillside Terrace, Daikanyama.
Magazine Library 10
Photo by Naho Kubota
The WAIzine is currently on display in the New York City exhibition of the Archizines World Tour. Curated by Elias Redstone and designed by \ / | < | \ | (Giancarlo Valle, Isaiah King and Ryan Neiheiser) the exhibition at the Storefront for Art and Architecture expands to 80 architectural publications and includes the show Arch-Art! Books, curated by Adam O’Reilly. The Archizines exhibition that will be in display from April 18 to June 9 “draws inspiration from the quintessential model New York model for publication display-the newsstand-and turns it on its side.”
The exhibition includes a graffic façade, newsprint and a catalog designed by Benjamin Critton. Archizines and the Storefront will host a 2-day symposium on publishing practices as part of its Manifesto Series.
The topics and schedule of the Manifesto Series are:
Friday April 20, 7:00-9:00 PM: Medium and Speed
Saturday April 21, 2:00pm-7:30pm History / Crisis and Desire
Storefront will live-stream the symposium here.
Photo by Vicente Gasco Gomez
The Archizines exhibition that displays the WAIzine as one of the 60 international magazines opened to the public on April 12 in Otras cosas de Villarrosas. The exhibition will be on display until the 4th of May.
Photo by Vicente Gasco Gomez
The WAIzine (What About It? Part 1) will be exhibited in the Archizines exhibition in Berlin from April 26 to May 26 at Do You Read Me?! a shop for art, architecture and photography magazines and reading room for lectures, exhibitions, and discussions.
“The Reading Room is a location for lectures, exhibitions, discussions and all those still slumbering ideas and projects. It has been designed as an interpretation of a typical reading room in collaboration with Greige. and Artek.
Unfinished Artek classics and Enzo Mari chairs invite to linger and pause, whereas reading light is provided by Arteks new lamp series.”
do you read me?!
Magazine und Lekture der Gegenwart
Reading Room & Shop
Potsdamer Strasse 98
10785 Berlin-Tiergarten
Opening Times
Thursday to Saturday: 12pm-6pm
www.doyoureadme.de/readingroom
The first issue of the Waizine (What About It? Part 1) will be exhibited in the world famous Storefront for Art and Architecture in Kenmare street in New York. The Archizines exhibition of contemporary architecture publications will be held from the 17th of April until the 9th of June. The Opening will be Tuesday April 17, and a series of talks and events will be celebrated Friday 20 and Saturday 21 of April.
For more information on the exhibition and events stay logged in to WAI.
Storefront for Art and Architecture is a cutting edge design gallery founded in 1982 and located in 97 Kenmare Street, New York.
“The place is shaped like a slice of pizza, and it’s not much bigger. But there’s nothing small about the visions on view at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Art exhibitions at Storefront, which operates on a shoestring, have been putting museums to shame for years.”
— The New Yorker
“One of the 14 most influential art spaces in the United States.”
— Vanity Fair
The Archizines exhibition world tour featuring What About It? Part 1 will be displayed in Otras cosas de Villar-Rosas in Barcelona from the April 12 to May 4. The opening will be celebrated Thursday April 12. More info coming soon!
The 10th edition of ‘Magazine Library’ will include Magazines, Limited Edition Prints and Experimental Videos from WAI Architecture Think Tank.
“’Magazine Library’ is a travelling exhibition that showcases magazines, art books, zines and independent publications from around the world .In 2008 creative agency ‘a Zillion ideas’ made an open call for the launch of the ‘Magazine Library’ project, after an overwhelming response the first ‘Magazine Library’ was held in March of 2009 to coincide with the 3rd anniversary of Omotesando Hills in Tokyo. The exhibition displayed over 1000 printed publications from 47 countries during the 9 day event. Now in its 9th exhibition the Magazine Library has travelled to Nagoya, Los Angeles and Berlin welcoming a total of more than 50,000 visitors.”
The 10th ‘Magazine Library’ will be held from May 3rd until May 13 at the Hillside Terrace in the Daikanyama area of Tokyo.
“Designed by Architects Fumihiko Maki and Makoto Motokura, Hillside Terrace is a mixed residential, retail and commercial complex that was developed between 1967 and 1992. It became an exemplary case study in urban development characterized by its arresting geometric design and white walls. The site includes an ancient burial tomb upon which is a small Shinto shrine. There is also evidence that the site was occupied from as early as
the 7th century, when Tokyo was a small fishing village.
Hillside Terrace has grown together with the town of Daikanyama and with its people for the past 30 years, gradually expanding its construction.” (http://www.hillsideterrace.com/)
For more info stay tuned to WAI.
Curated by Elias Redstone, the Archizines Exhibition that features What About It? Part 1 amongst a selection of 60 worldwide architectural publications is going to be on display in Spazio FMG per l’Architettura in Milan, Italy.
The exhibition will be open to the public from January 27, until February 23.
Here a video of the exhibition.
Photo by Mauro Consilvio
The Archizines exhibition that features What About It? Part 1, has opened in Spazio FMG per l’Architettura in Milano, Italy. The WAIzine that is one of 60 contemporary architectural publications that are showcased, will be displayed for the public from January 27 until February 23.
For more info go to:
“PUBLICATION TITLE is proud to be included in ARCHIZINES – a project curated by Elias Redstone to showcase the best new architecture magazines, fanzines and journals from around the world. The touring exhibition was initiated in collaboration with the Architectural Association, London, with art direction by Folch Studio, Barcelona. A catalogue to accompany the exhibition has been published by Bedford Press.
ARCHIZINES is showing at SpazioFMG in Milan until 23 February 2012.”
Photo by Mauro Consilvio
Photo by Mauro Consilvio
Photo by Mauro Consilvio
Photo by Mauro Consilvio
Cruz Garcia at WAI Lecture
WAI’s lecture “What about It? WAI Architecture Think Tank was presented at the School of Architecture of the Universidad de Puerto Rico to a packed auditorium. The discussion was followed by an intense series of questions and discussions, and by the opening of WAI’s solo exhibition.
WAI’s presentation and exhibition marked the opening of the 2012 school of architecture’s lecture series.
WAI at the UPR Exhibition
The School of Architecture of the Universidad de Puerto Rico will host a lecture and the exhibition of WAI Architecture Think Tank the 25th of January of 2012. WAI’s presentation will open the Lecture series of the School of Architecture that this academic semester will include Thom Mayne, Cameron Sinclair, Kieran-Timberlake, Juddy Kinnard, Alan Balfour, Jorge Silvetti-Rodolfo Machado, Takaharu Tezuka, and Javier Sanchez.
The lecture will be open to the public and will be followed by the discussion and the opening of What About It? / UPR Exhibition.
wai interview video/image by Johan Tristan Kinnucan
The ARCHIZINES exhibition held in the Architectural Association in London that featured 60 contemporary architectural publications from around the world presented the creators and editors of the magazines through a series of video interviews displayed in IPads. The series of questions that were addressed by WAI founders Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia presented a unique opportunity to display the different perspectives and conditions that fuel contemporary architectural intelligence today, and to discuss the influence of printed matter in a digitalized world.
Edited Interview Transcript WAI at ARCHIZINES:
What is the relationship between architecture and publishing?
Cruz: We think that there are two kinds of (architectural) publishing. One that is more oriented to publicity and marketing, and that’s the one that we have plenty of, publishing a lot of images, a lot of not very critical texts, and it responds more to the market. (This kind of publication) is not necessarily very critical with itself. And then on the other hand, we have another kind of publishing that is the one that is concerned with the framing of ideas and looks for ways to make these ideas permanent. This publication is the one that was used by Adolf Loos, by Le Corbusier, and the CIAM during modernism, and Archigram, the Metabolists, in the sixties…and Koolhass eventually. We’ve been losing this kind of publication since the economic boom in the 90’s, when everything was getting built and there was not a very strong culture of rethinking what people were doing. We think that approach of the publishing of ideas is very important for architecture to create a database and a background for the future work of the people that write the texts and for the people that reads them, including students, and professionals. It is what carries the discipline forward.
How do you edit architecture?
Cruz: In order to edit architecture, you got to provide architecture with tools with which you can edit it. The more tools you have, the more options you will have to find ways to edit architecture. It could be publishing, texts, it could be narrative architecture, it could be filmmaking, it could be music.
We always like to put emphasis on these two speeds of editing. One is really slow. Building architecture or the construction of architecture. It represents how you can edit architecture through a really wide period of time through what you are building. And the other speed is in all these simultaneous tools, like magazines, books and movies, and other kinds of media.
If we put an example, we always like to quote from the Modernists because they were perhaps the strongest ideological period of recent architecture. If we see how Le Corbusier went from his early houses to hardcore modernist aesthetics, and how he detached himself from that period and then started experimenting with the plastics of the building, and how he developed simultaneously another set of tools that set the parameters for the future of the practice like his first texts, the more doctrinal texts, L’esprit nouveau, and the texts in which the CIAM based its doctrines, and then poetry, painting, sculpture, and other kinds of mediums.
We can see how important is to provide these tools because then you can set the parameters on which you are going to set your practice after. How does people that are following you and looking at what you are doing, like the students, professionals, and academics, can see the development, and then architecture gets edited all the time.
Nathalie: A way to edit architecture is by the process in which you produce architecture and express yourself and your ideas. So if you use these kinds of medium, like for example filmmaking, collage, theoretical texts, research, all different kinds of tools that are not just design oriented, then you come by editing your ideas and your approach, and eventually you can communicate a much more broader expression, or idea of the meaning of architecture.
What is the role of printed matter in the digital age?
Nathalie: Printed matter in the digital age really help us to mark a point in time, and physically produce a material that will encapsulate the statements or concepts you want to develop, be it a book or publication. Compared to a more digital era where maybe for the user is more difficult to gather or to get what you’re looking for because you don’t know where to look for. You have so much information. So if you have printed matter, it’s all gathered in one material you can always keep, and refer to it in time. Printed matter it’s also part of a time issue. It’s something more permanent that will not change, that you can always use as reference. Also, as a user, printed matter, will allow you to really experience it with your own speed compared maybe to the internet or even a documentary, and all these digital products that have their own speed. The printed issue will always give you, as a user, the freedom to interact with it at your own speed, in your own order.
How are architectural publications changing?
Cruz: Architecture publication in itself hasn’t change too much. If you consider the history of architecture publications maybe in the last hundred years, we have, as we said before, two kinds of publications, ones that are more market-oriented, and the other ones that are statements in printed matter.
But what have changed a lot are the mediums of diffusion of architectural information. For example, we can quote our case. We come straight out of our blog, which is a really inexpensive way to get information gathered. And then you gain notoriety through the publication of the blog, people know your work, and eventually you end up printing that stuff, because in the end you still believe in the permanent power of the printed matter.
Otherwise without the digital input that wouldn’t happen because if we look at the architectural discipline is still very elitist, and is a small society that is very secluded. If you don’t know anybody from a publisher or if you’re not connected with any school, it would be very difficult to find an outlet where you can get your ideas diffused.
And then again, we’re not associated with any of this, but then we found out that these new technologies would help us to present our ideas to a bigger and wider public. And then, some people quote you on another website, for example, and eventually you end up in a magazine, and then other people meet you, and know you, and know your work, and basically without having any physical presence, you get your work known. The eventually it becomes embedded as a new branch of the architectural publications that includes all these new digital material.
Nathalie: This new dynamic helps to break a bit the pattern that existed, in publishing. Architecture publications were quite elitist. As you said already publishing was reserved to more academic people, or people who already have a lot of experience in the architectural practice, so in a way the digital era helped a lot of people, young people, to access to this architectural world of contemporary architecture, and opened a lot of new opportunities for a lot of different people.
WAI interview at the AA Image by Sue Barr / ARCHIZINES Exhibition
WAI interview at the AA Image by Sue Barr / ARCHIZINES Exhibition
wai interview video/image by Johan Tristan Kinnucan
