PIN–UP 17, the ”Normal” issue. This special cover is text only — pure Arial opulence. Not available anywhere else. (The original photo cover still available here.) Inside, definitions of architecture’s ”new normal,” circa 2014. Plus trip to one of the most normal places in the world: Norway. (2021 cover reinterpretation by Rosie Marks.)
Featuring:
MARIO BOTTA
The Local Hero From Ticino Who’s Earned His International Stripes
Interview by Carson Chan
Portraits by Lukas Wassmann
SOU FUJIMOTO
Architecture’s Gentleman Farmer Knows How to Reap What He’s Sown
Interview by Kevin Greenberg
Portraits by Jeremy Liebman
KELLY WEARSTLER
The Laid-Back L.A. Mixologist with a Knack for Making the Best of Everything
Interview by Michael Bullock
Portraits by Therese + Joel
KULAPAT YANTRASAST
The Thai-Born Design Polymath Authors His Own Architectural Recipes
Interview by Eva Munz
Portraits by Todd Cole
CARLA JUAÇABA
A Lyrical Poet of Architecture Breaking The Mold of The Brazilian Architecture Scene
Interview by Karen Wong
Portraits by Javier Augustín Rojas
ALSO IN THE ISSUE: Wolfgang Tillmans’s a tender homage to the everyday built environment; an architectural ode to symmetry by Tom Hancocks; color-coded design crushes by Tauba Auerbach, Monica Khemsurov, Ambra Medda, and Paloma Powers, a beautiful bouquet of the most common bodega flowers, photographed by Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes; a petite yet well-appointed party pad in Paris by gallerist Daniele Balice; a short history of the ubiquitous mirrored glass façade; close encounters with the Met’s new architecture curator Beatrice Galilee, set-designer-to the-stars Marla Weinhoff, lighting whiz Michael Anastassiades, pottery poet Ron Nagle, Chilean architecture sensation Pezo von Ellrichshausen, and design virtuosos Nanu al Hamad, Jonathan Muecke, and Josh Bitelli. Not to mention a series of the most beautiful lounge chairs tested out by artist Analisa Teachworth.
PLUS: essays on the 20th-century architect Giuseppe Pagano, who thrived for perfect mediocrity; a demystification of space travel by Pippin Wigglesworth Weider; and a mournful farewell to Hans Hollein’s only U.S. project on New York’s Upper East Side.
AND: a 40-page Norway Special photographed by Benjamin Alexander Huseby, and Seven Portraits, a supplement in collaboration with the artist David Hartt and the IIT College of Architecture, introducing the nominees of the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize.