title: Riviste di architettura. Traiettorie Editoriale di Engramma n. 188
Creators: name: De Maio, Fernanda
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Architectural Journals
Stories
Perspectives
Testimonials

description: The present issue of “La Rivista di Engramma” is dedicated to the world of architecture journals with the aim of focusing on a sector that seems to be in movement and object of debate. In the current historical moment – where digital platforms allow a sort of happy anarchy for unfiltered information of the architectural culture and each architect, studio or group can build the communication of their own experience in the professional field without great constraints of budget and time – what remains of architecture journals? Which is their goal: information, communication, critics of architecture or else? What kind of problems are they facing today? Have they accepted the challenge of the transition from paper to digital? If so, how? And which is the role of graphics in this transition? Has the digital revolution affected/influenced/improved the knowledge of architecture and its diffusion? The issue is divided into three sections – Storie, Prospettive, Testimonianze – and is introduced by Alberto Ferlenga’s essay which proposes a parallel between two journals, David Gilly’s “Sammlung Nützlicher Aufsätze und Nachrichten die Baukunst Betreffend. Für Angehende Baumeister und Freunde der Architektur” and Ernesto Nathan Rogers’s “Casabella-Continuità”: arisen in different contexts and historical moments, but with similar aims. The section Storie opens on an essay by Daniele Pisani on the missed dialogue between the Italian architectural culture and the internationally acclaimed Brazilian architectural production in the second half of the XX century. Following, Alberto Pireddu recounts the story of the journal “A” by Lina Bo Bardi and Carlo Pagani; Aldo Aymonino and Federico Bilò propose an insight of “Zodiac”, its relationship with Adriano Olivetti and its international vocation; Guido Morpurgo’s article dwells on issues zero and 1 of Vittorio Gregotti’s “Rassegna”; finally, Andrea Foffa describes the digital turn of a historical magazine, “The Architect’s Journal”. The second section, Prospettive, investigates possible ways of development of the journals, starting with Cherubino Gambardella’s proposal for magazines like out of time collections; followed by Tim Steffen Altenhof who identifies two essential ways to conceive of an architectural publication today: as a form of community, and as a school. While Eva Maria Froschauer reflects On the timeliness of media relationships between architecture and journals, Riccardo Rapparini applies the concept of Roberto Calasso and Cesare Garboli’s untimeliness emerged as the basis for making literature magazines a “profoundly creative and original” medium capable of “influencing its own time” and not going along with it to architectural journals. The third section, Testimonianze, collects contributions in the form of interviews, conversations and personal recording: Nicole Cappellari and Julien Correira interview Jacques Lucan on the Tenxency journals, Michela Maguolo interviews Sophie Lovell on the experimental magazine “uncube”, Paolo Carpi recalls the experience of “San Rocco”, Lamberto Amistadi ed Enrico Prandi tell the story of “Fam”, the first italian web architectural journal declared excellent by the Italian Nationall Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, Laura Camerlingo, Alessia Sala, Cesare Sartori describe the students’ editorial project “Terreno comune”.