DO ANYTHING The Print Culture Of Architecture

Architectural Publishing On Demand

Architect/ Designer/ Writer Editor/ Publisher/ Distributor

Architecture is lower and slower than any other eld; we are the least technological, but we talk about it the most.
Mark Wigley

Today there is such an enormous need for production that occasionally what architecture is best at may be forgotten.
Bernard Tschumi

Architecture offer many things; ideas, manifestoes, jokes, gossips, frustrations, drawings, attitude, enquiries, beauty, agendas, knowledge, crap-tech, etc.

What happens when the designer/ architect assumes the role of writer, editor, publisher and distributor?
Zak Kyes

1963

1964

1965

1966

Publish on Demand Integrating the production of printed materials on generating content, editing and design of architectural ideas and such.
1967

DIY Ethic = Self Publishing The publishing of books, micropublishing on-line works and other media by the authors rather than by established, third-party publishers.
1968 1969

DIY Architecture Press The book as a work of art and skill rather than simply a vehicle for imparting information and communication.
1970

Traditional Offset Print Machine

Lightweight Press Machine

1971

1972

New modes of production; print-on-demand tools, laser printers, digital offsets, In-Design, Adobe Acrobat, etc. bypass the division of work ow to publishing system.
1973 1974

Productivity

AA Publication, London

1975

1976

Architecture = Punk Rock

Bedford Press, London

1977

1978

1979

Why Self-Publish?

Avoiding Publishing Bureaucracies:

Author cannot get published by traditional publishers, author is unknown, topic is obscure, topic is controversial, topic is only of interest to a small group of people, writing, style, or genre rejected, etc.

AArchitecture, Students Self Publication

Full Control and Artistic Freedom:

Author staying non-conform to editorial changes a publisher would make, complete control over books outcome, database, sales and customers, overall low publishing cost, publish content independently, control of total design and concept, etc.

Jong Arsitek, Collaborative Self Publication

Total Design:
Self-publishing allow books to be designed and experimented within the total control of the self-publisher.

CODA, Collaborative Self Publication

Is There Any Point in Printed Publications?

Online Publishing and Blogs

Printed media has The web is some inherent great for news, advantages interactive it is portable, information, video, tactile but lacks the photographs sophistication usually look very of prints - its good in print. still early days.
Peter Bilak

Pamphlet Architecture:
Small books with BIG ideas

Pamphlet Architecture

The book is an old medium. And it is an old medium that you can innovate in. I dont know how many times I said that I wanted to make a book people would read and not just look at.
Greg Lynn

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