e188 | Riviste di architettura. Traiettorie

The issue is divided into three sections – Storie, Prospettive, Testimonianze (Stories, Perspectives, Testimonials)– introduced by Alberto Ferlenga’s essay, which proposes a parallel between two journals, David Gilly’s “Sammlung” and Ernesto Nathan Rogers’s “Casabella-Continuità”, belonging to different contexts and historical moments, but with similar aims. The section Storie opens with an essay by Daniele Pisani on the missed dialogue between the Italian architectural culture and the internationally acclaimed Brazilian architecture in the second half of the XX century. 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 0 and 1 of Vittorio Gregotti’s “Rassegna”; and Andrea Foffa describes the digital turn of a historical magazine, “The Architect’s Journal”. The second section, Prospettive, investigates possible futures in the development of the journals, starting with Cherubino Gambardella’s proposal for magazines like out-of-time collections; followed by Tim Steffen Altenhof identifies two essential ways to conceive of an architectural publication today: as a form of community, and as a school. Eva Maria Froschauer reflects on the timeliness of media relationships between architecture and journals, while Riccardo Rapparini applies the concept of Roberto Calasso and Cesare Garboli’s untimeliness to architectural journals. The third section, Testimonianze, collects contributions in the form of interviews, conversations and personal recollection: Nicole Cappellari and Julien Correira interview Jacques Lucan on the Tendency 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 recognized for excellence by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes; and Laura Camerlingo, Alessia Sala and Cesare Sartori describe the students’ editorial project “Terreno comune”.