Clip/Stamp/Fold

The exhibition, produced by the University of Princeton, is the result of two years of seminars, interviews and visits to the publishers and architects who produced these experimental magazines in the sixties and seventies, which were a driving force behind architectural creation at that time. An explosion of architectural little magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture with the architecture of the magazines acting as the site of innovation and debate. 

Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period, which were published in over a dozen cities. Coined in the early twentieth century to designate progressive literary journals, the term “little magazine” was remobilized during the 1960s to grapple with the contemporary proliferation of independent architectural periodicals.

In addition to short-lived radical magazines, Clip/Stamp/Fold includes pamphlets and building instruction manuals along with professional magazines that experienced “moments of littleness,” influenced by the graphics and intellectual concerns of their self-published contemporaries. 

Credits
Organisation: Museu del Disseny de Barcelona (formerly the DHUB-Disseny Hub Barcelona) & the “Media & Modernity” Program, University of Princeton
Exhibition Design: Adaptació Urtzi Grau
Graphic Design: Alex Prieto
Production Coordination: Museu del Disseny de Barcelona (formerly the DHUB-Disseny Hub Barcelona) - Nélida Falcó