If you long for the days when architecture was as sensational as street art is today, run do not walk to Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines, showing through February 26^th at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. Featuring fantastic cover design, including everyone's favorite gorilla and a skyscraper constructed from Swiss cheese (sound familiar?), as well as content from heavy-hitters like Bernard Tschumi and Kenneth Frampton, the little magazines emerged internationally in the 1960s and 1970s as young architecture's response to a global atmosphere of political and social change. New ideas are presented in rough form in one magazine and challenged in another, re-worked and re-argued, only to remain unresolved.

The architecture of the show is also largely unfinished and theoretical in contrast to the hyper-stylized and computerized architecture of today, kind of like that over-caffeinated cousin of yours who memorizes Kant but can't hold a job (wait, is that just me?). For these architects, media is the site wherein the means dominate the ends; I left wondering where media would drive contemporary architecture next.

Speaking of radical/magazines, stay tuned for the release of LVHRD MGZN II.

I’m off to build a dome in the woods