New York Review of Architecture #49
270 x 405 mm, 54 pages (staple bound)
New York, US
Bimonthly
First published in 2019
Editor: Samuel Medina
Art director: Laura Coombs
Cover: Sean Suchara
Tall and slim (much like a skyscraper...), NYRA naturally ‘reviews architecture in New York,’ featuring opiniated columns, essays, criticism and more, beginning with an always enjoyable Letters to the Editors section (yes, this is a magazine that gets a repsonse from its readers!)
Smartly redesigned in 2022—its newsprint pages and slab serif typography Interview-esque—you’ll find plenty of visual character to go alongside the sharp writing (not least the illustrated rodent mascot, seen here in a prescient image of NY snow.
Inside this issue, our obsession with the 1990’s is examined, ‘The Fountainhead’—the movie adaptation, not the book—is praised, and the role of the geography of Paris questionned.
On the Journal
At Work With Samuel Medina: ‘It’s important to us that NYRA feels rooted in New York City, by which I don’t just mean Manhattan or North Brooklyn but also Queens, the Bronx, the rest of Kings County, even Staten Island (within limits). We tend to prioritize working writers over academics or practicing designers, but we’re interested in working with anyone who can write creatively and critically about the city.’
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