MONU #14: Editing Urbanism
The latest issue of MONU Magazine — an independent biannual publication devoted to writings on urbanism — has hit newsstands. Always theme-based, this particular issue centres on the idea of ‘Editing Urbanism’. When the term was first raised in MONU’s call for proposals, I immediately thought of the kind of editing that involved addition — small-scale, [...]
Read more →Night Of The Bicycles
Last summer in Moscow a few hundred cycling and architecture enthusiasts gathered at midnight to take part in a 22 kilometre, five-hour bicycle tour of the city’s architecture. Participants came equipped with bike pumps, helmets, headphones and an FM radio and were guided through the city via a broadcasted audio tour. That year participants were taken [...]
Read more →DIY Land Remediation
As great as the DIY movement is, there are some things that seem naturally beyond the capacity of the average individual non-professional. DIY Space Missions and DIY Nuclear Fusion for example, are two headings you’ll probably never read in an issue of Ready Made. Every once in while though it’s exciting to see our assumptions [...]
Read more →DIY Publishing: An Interview With What About It
Last week we featured the new architectural zine SOILED and engaged the editorial team in a discussion on the merits of DIY publishing in the 21st century. This week we take a look at an emerging architectural office/think tank who has recently converted their blog postings into a monograph-zine. What About It is an emerging [...]
Read more →DIY Publishing: An Interview With SOILED
With the recent launch of the ArchiZines website and Actar’s publication of Clip, Stamp, Fold, it would seem that independent architectural publications are enjoying newfound importance in the architectural scene. But in the age of cheap and accessible blogging platforms, what is the value old-school physical printed media has over its online digital cousin? And what inspires people to go down the road of DIY publishing? SOILED is a new independent architecture publication coming out of Chicago. I decided to put these questions to the editorial team of SOILED. The following is a short interview.
Read more →City One Minutes
Want to go on a global drift through various cities at any hour of the day from the comfort of your own home? City One Minutes can make your digital derive a reality. City One Minutes is an online resource which portrays the daily rhythm of a city through one minute videos. Each city is [...]
Read more →Trans-Atlantic Walking Routes
Artists Laura Nanni and Sorrel Muggridge have been working on new ways to explore the city collaboratively. Nanni lives in Toronto and Muggridge lives in Nottingham but the Atlantic divide has only brought them closer in terms of moving about and observing their respective cities. Nanni and Muggridge have developed a correspondence of direction giving. One [...]
Read more →The Pop-Up Condo Box: Animations By Luke Painter
Luke Painter is a Toronto-based visual artist whose recent work has explored architectural symbolism and representation through large-scaled ink drawings, print and animation. A new show at the York Quay Centre in Toronto showcases some of his animation work called ‘Fiction and Invention: Utopic Visions for the 21st Century’. The work features animations of condominium [...]
Read more →Book Review: Bracket [On Farming]
Anticipation and trepidation are two appropriate words to describe the feeling I had prior to the release of the debut issue of Bracket — the new annual publication curated and edited by Archinect and InfraNet Lab and published by Actar. The anticipation was due in general to the great work that InfraNet Lab has been doing [...]
Read more →Fan Videos For Cities
Fan videos for musicians have become a pretty major part of the online video-streaming world. With increasingly accessible prices for digital video equipment, and user-friendly editing software, expressing your love for your favourite indie band through mash-up edits of kittens dancing on pianos has never been easier. But what if you’re a really big fan [...]
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