Bauten/Buildings: Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig

Alternative publishing in architecture has had a long and varied history, with two periods of prolific output, both of which have been documented in recent exhibitions: A Few Zines: Dispatches from the Edge of Architectural Production (2009) explores architectural zines of the nineties and their mixing of writings on the city with music, art and pop culture in general; Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines (2010) focused on this phenomenon in the sixties and the seventies. These zines were an alternative to the academic journals or trade magazines of the profession, whilst some provided space for the amateur and the non-professional, others were produced by specialists as an outlet for highly specific topics and interests. Recently, blogs and other forms of output on the internet have become a more popular means of for magazines of the profession, whilst some provided space for the amateur disseminating such information, although the self-publishing.