FA(little)Magazine and the “little magazines” of twentieth century architecture

Abstract

In a sort of self-reflective mirroring, the Editorial of Issue 43 of “FAMagazine” addresses the theme of 20th-century architecture magazines by identifying in the kind of independent publications developed during WWII known by the term “Little Magazines”, the form through which the journalism of architecture sought to emancipate itself from the conditionings of the building market and professional practices to become organs of study and research on the project and the city. Starting from the transformations of the editorial context determined by the digital revolution, “FAMagazine” – a scientific Open Access e-Journal – evokes the “Little Magazine” tradition, inserting it into the framework of the new demands from the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems.