New York Review of Architecture #42
270 x 405 mm, 40 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...), the NYRA naturally ‘reviews architecture in New York,’ featuring columns, essays, criticism and more, beginning with a particularly amusing Letters to the Editors section.
Smartly redesigned last year—its newsprint pages and slab serif typography Interview-esque—you'll find plenty of visual character to go alongside the sharp writing.
The September/October edition of NYRA looks into the future, with the rat mascots on the cover illustrated driving space-age hover cars into a bubbled New York City. Essays include a reappraisal of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome, a rejection of retrofuturism, and a lamentation for NYC's rooftop experience industry ruining the dignity of the city's skyscrapers. Not so much visions of a great advancements, but instead projections of sci-fi dystopia in this edition.