Viva la revolución! On the cover: Bold graphics by Office Ben Ganz responsible for PIN–UP’s new design direction. Inside: 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.
INTHE 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 with 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: 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.