Art Metropole

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PLACE-HOLDER ISSUE 00: In The Building

Date

2013

Publisher

PLACE-HOLDER

Format

Periodicals

Size

17 × 25 × 0.5 cm

The inaugural issue of PLACE-HOLDER magazine, titled “In The Building,” includes a conversation with architect, writer, and Daniels Faculty alumnus Burton Hamfelt; a peek into “the famously private sketchbooks of architecture students;” and an anonymous account of an illicit night in 230 College Street, among other interviews, essays, and reflections.

“Architecture is caught in a strange place within popular conception, not quite an esoteric subject, yet not completely understood by those outside the practice,” write co-editors Elizabeth Krasner and Roya Mottahedeh on the publication’s website.

Most often, very little is relayed about the process and tangents of learning and practicing. There is a breadth to the design process that automatically produces an archive of unseen products, set-aside ideas, and scrapped technologies. Whether they are temporary trends or resilient values, these, too, are part of the public discourse on design and cities and should be part of the conversation.