The issue with that famous zig zag edge! The PIN–UP Reconstructions Special is a special edition cover of PIN–UP 29 (in partnership with Thom Browne) featuring portraits of ten architects, artists, and designers: Germane Barnes, Sekou Cooke, J. Yolande Daniels, Felecia Davis, Mario Gooden, Walter Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, V. Mitch McEwen, and Amanda Williams. All portraits by David Hartt for PIN–UP.
The PIN–UP Reconstructions Special is a limited edition version of PIN–UP 29, published on the occasion of the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York from February 20–May 31, 2021. Just like the original PIN–UP 29, this edition features the signature zig-zag edge.
Also in the issue: Activist graphic language selections from Jerome Harris; Paola Antonelli on revolutionary new materials; David Fortin on decolonizing design; Philippe Malouin’s bold new design moves; BIPOC Studios classifieds by Dong-Ping Wong; Gregory Ketant on Quantum Architecture; a tribute to the late great legend Nanda Vigo; the urban interventions of Hong Kong protesters; and Camille Okhio on the curse of Versailles.
Interviews include Xu Tiantian, the Chinese architect who is starting a rural revolution through architectural acupuncture; the L.A.-based artist Kandis Williams, who gives history a hard read by radically recasting the past; Amin Taha, the award-winning British architect who is taking material efficiency to new load-bearing heights; Andrea Faraguna and Niklas Bildstein Zaar of the Berlin architecture studio SUB discuss the symbols and desires they hold close; the Italian provocateur Luca Cipelletti designs museums and exhibitions that preserve the past while empowering the future.
Also in the issue: Ted Barrow sorts through the vestiges of Trump aesthetics; Drew Zeiba on the 5G revolution; the history of the Guy Fawkes mask; accessibility hot spots from gender neutral bathrooms to hostile architecture; Akeem Smith’s dance-hall architecture; Alice Bucknell’s speculative E-Z Kryptobuild; prison abolition and design ethics with Raphael Sperry; Rafik Greiss photographs Issey Miyake textiles; an interview with design oracle Piero Gandini; Supreme’s objets d’art; Jerome Byron on quarantine renovations; the architecture of common ground; a book on the history of architecture and the Algerian revolution; an interview with Maite Borjabad on design futures; and so much more.
The PIN–UP Reconstructions Special is exclusively available here and the MoMA Book Store.