Twenty editors respond to twenty polemical prompts
concerning their role in shaping contemporary architectural discourse.



20|20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse

(AA Publications, November 2010)


20/20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse brings together editors from 20 leading contemporary architectural magazines to discuss collectively the role editors play in shaping architectural discourse. Each of the contributors has responded to a set of 20 questions on the multiple conditions under which particular ideas and words enter architectural discourse through publication. The resulting critical positions and observations are as diverse as the magazines from which they originate, and range from the oldest student-edited journal (Perspecta) to a research collective that at the time of writing was on the cusp of being launched ([bracket]). Also included are contributions from the editors of 306090, AA Files, Actar, An Architektur, Footprint, Grey Room, Harvard Design Magazine, Hunch, Interstices, Log, Manifold, Mark, New Geographies, OASE, Praxis, Scapes, UME and Volume. 20/20 is a timely publication that provides today’s architectural reader with concise viewpoints from the editors behind the magazines behind architectural culture.

Contributors:
Jonathan D. Solomon__306090
Thomas Weaver__AA Files
Michael Kubo__Actar
Oliver Clemens, Jesko Fezer, Sabine Horlitz, Anita Kaspar & Andreas Müller__An Architektur
Mason White__[bracket]
Tahl Kaminer & Lukasz Stanek__Footprint
Reinhold Martin__Grey Room
William S. Saunders__Harvard Design Magazine
Salomon Frausto__Hunch
Ross Jenner__Interstices
Cynthia Davidson__Log
Izabel Gass__Manifold
Arthur Wortmann__MARK: Another Architecture
Neyran Turan__New Geographies
Christoph Grafe & Johan Lagae__OASE
Marcus Carter & Christopher Marcinkoski__Perspecta
Amanda Reeser Lawrence__Praxis
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury__Scapes
Haig Beck & Jackie Cooper__UME
Jeffrey Inaba__Volume

With a preface Brett Steele and an introduction by the editor Kirk Wooller


20/20 dummy cover
(placeholder cover)
AA Publications
c 244 pp
135 x 216 mm, paperback
November 2010
978-1-907896-00-2
£tbc