The Making of Your Magazines

Clip/Stamp/Fold

An explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture with the architecture of the magazines acting as the site of innovation and debate. The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196x-197x takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period. Coined in the early twentieth century to designate progressive literary journals, the term “little magazine” was remobilized during the 1960s to grapple with the contemporary proliferation of independent architectural periodicals. The terms “little” and “magazine” are not taken at face value. In addition to short-lived radical magazines, Clip/Stamp/Fold includes pamphlets and building instruction manuals along with professional magazines that experienced “moments of littleness,” influenced by the graphics and intellectual concerns of their self-published contemporaries.

The whole design is based on the DIN A4 format and reproduced via a low-tech b/w copy machine on 6 different color paper.

Copy up to 10 articles of your choice

As for the production of their magazines, visitors would find folders with all selected articles right by the copy machine. While the editors were working on the latest issue, copies were to be stapled between two cardboard sheets, one being the cover with the archplus logo and the other one being the backcover. Visitors could fold the exhibition poster into a cover for their magazine and place the copied articles inside.