Ryan Waller is a partner at Other Means, a Brooklyn-based graphic design studio working with architects, artists, curators, editors, institutions, and schools.
This issue of OASE examines the diminishing culture of architecture criticism, and the role that architecture magazines play within the current debate. A record of events organized around the journal’s twenty-fifth anniversary, this issue brings together important critical voices around one central question: what role should the architecture journal play in an increasingly acritical landscape? 001 Editorial 013 Definitions and Limitations of Criticism 033 Architecture Criticism: Identifying an Object of Study 059 Faux Amis 065 Why Start an Architectural Journal in an Age That Is Disgusted with (Most of) Them? 079 (The Lack of) Architecture Criticism in Finland A Plea…
