ABOUT ARCHIJUNKIE

The idea of Archijunkie was conceived in 1999, when the AIAS chapter of Hobart and William Smith Colleges issued a series of newsletters about contemporary architecture issues using a very simple format of opinion articles and interviews.The idea later developed further in 2004 in the MIT Architecture student publication of Pinup.

When we specify an issue to explore we intend to simply gather important ideas based on different perspectives, and arrange them in a way that will compose a complete picture of the issue while keeping it open to the interpretation of the reader. We do not intent to define the term, explain the truth or argue for a particular position, simply because we do not believe in absolute truth, and we are too ignorant to have any actual position (at least in the beginning of our explorations). Our intention is simply to initiate a conversation whose subject will revolve around our general subject, but will also be free to touch on the issues, like basic questions related to the architect's place in the world, the evolution of practice through time and a lot more. The core of our research is usually a questinnaire, to which the contributors are invited to react through conversation or articles. The end result is a collage of articles and interviews that are put together to help the architects/ readers make up their own minds in regards to what is, what matters and where they belong.