This week I’d like to introduce you to some books I’ve come across while traveling the city. This first one is CLIP STAMP FOLD, an encyclopedic compendium of radical little architecture mags from the sixties and seventies. More than just clip stamp fold these were also draw cut paste scribble slash ink. This brick of a book is a portable archive and you don’t have to wear latex gloves to handle. These small, independent publications curated the contemporary and collected what may have been the disposable present. The challenged the orthodox historicism of architecture with a hippy slant. I would have stolen some images for you, but alas it was wrapped in protective hygienic cellophane.
More after the break.
ARCHITECTS’ SKETCHBOOKS is one of those rare books that reproduces and collects what is never seen. On the one hand there was a slight anticlimactic sense upon opening it because the sketches seemed well –produced and edited. My sketchbooks are messy agglomerations of scratches and scribbles and notes to pick up eggs on the way home; calculations, phone numbers, bits of poems, stains. There isn’t much of this here, but it is nonetheless revealing of some of the more insane sides to otherwise functioning architects.
