PIN–UP No. 24. The Mental Issue. 2018. Orange alert. Memorable for marquee interviews with Dozie Kanu, Jonathan Olivares, Frida Escobedo (second cover), and genius artist and freestyle urbanist William Scott, among others. Designed under the influence of Erin Knutson, with melting titles and dream-like Lanzarote landscapes. Comes with Yeezy supplement. A crowd pleaser, then and now. (2021 cover reinterpretation by Iwan Baan.)
Featuring:
AMANDA LEVETE
With a range of new global projects to her name, this British architectural powerhouse has decidedly come into her own.
Interview by Felix Burrichter
Photography by Mathilde Agius
JONATHAN OLIVARES AND DOZIE KANU
One of the design industry’s leading voices meets one of its brightest young talents to talk the legs off a chair.
Portraits by Ian Markell
FRIDA ESCOBEDO
This erudite Mexican ingenue brings economy of form to complex architectural ideas.
Interview by Eva Munz
Portraits by Dorian Ulises López Macías
WILLIAM SCOTT
With his boundless imagination, this self-taught “architect” conjures hybrid utopias where peace and Diana Ross reign supreme.
Interview by Michael Bullock
Portraits by Daniel Trese
Also in the issue:
A 24-page portfolio of mental furniture including work by the likes of Matt Ager, Dora Budor, Archille Castiglioni, Christophe Delcourt, Elias Hansen, Paul Kopkau, Hannah Levy, Mary Little, Rich Mnisi, Jessi Reaves, Andy Robertson, René Roubíček, Chris Schanck, Bořek Šípek, Soft Baroque, Ian Stell, Sam Stewart, Katie Stout, Zhipeng Tan, Anna Uddenberg, Wentrceck + Zebulon, and Casja von Zeipel; the drawings of Pezo von Ellrichshausen; the surreal landscapes of the Spanish island of Lanzarote; an interview with Robert Yang on designing sex video games; an exhibition by Arakawa and Gins; Florian Graf’s use of architecture as art; a new book by Grafton Architects; an interview with Andrés Jaque on imagining urban desires; Donald Judd’s furniture; a look inside Sigve Knutson’s Oslo studio; Snarkitecture’s first monograph; a portfolio of melting beds by Carlos Saéz; the romance and neglect of Rome’s post-war architecture and of Athens’s last Olympics; as well as essays about the architecture of 19th-century insane asylums and the connections between drone warfare, mental health, and suburbia.
Plus: A special supplement in collaboration with Yeezy, photographed by Nicholas Cope and with text by Mimi Zeiger.