Sampler: Real Review magazine
Real Review magazine is an examination of “what it means to live today.” Loosely rooted in architecture, its insightful, innovative perspectives make for a really engaging read, and we’re delighted to be offering their second issue on Sampler.
Watch our review of their first issue to get a feel of the magazine, and scroll through the list of contents below from the second issue, which includes exploring Uber’s empty promises, USSR’s use of concrete slabs, and a photo series of gibberish English t-shirts in China. If you like what you see, head over to our Sampler page to get the magazine for 10% off and free delivery.
In this issue:
— Did the Serpentine Pavilions create the ‘starchitect’? Hans Ulrich Obrist on the “extreme present” and the role of the art object today. Also featuring poetry by architect Jean Nouvel
— Muscular Secularity: Leon Batchelor on crossfit gyms as sweat boxes where “elite fitness guarantees moral and economic supremacy.” Motivational artworks by Tosha van Veenendaal
— Fashion companies are accelerating production by sending ships from China filled with fabric and seamstresses, with new fashion ranges designed in transit. Ming Lin reviews these floating factories in Slow Sea, Fast Fashion. Photography of gibberish English t-shirts by Ann Woo
— “An Uber driver produces her future obsolescence through her hard work in the present.” Helen Runting and Arthur Röing Baer reviews algorithmic networks, self-driving cars and the future of the city in Uber as Megastructure. Prius-based photography by Max Creasy, captioned with Uber’s empty promises
— “If the communist system represents a radical pursuit of the mundane, the market economy embodies the inverse: a mundane pursuit of the radical.” OMA partner Reinier de Graaf reviews the USSR’s concrete panel housing slabs, illustrated with rare 1970s Soviet cartoons
— And Crafting a New Middle Class, in which Sameaneh Moafi writes about Iranian president Ahmadinejad, who channelled half of all the country’s money into a housing programme designed to produce 4-million strong, on-demand pro-government protests
Our weekly magazine offer, Sampler, gives you 10% off and free shipping in the US, UK, and Europe, and subsidised shipping everywhere else. Click through to Real Review’s Sampler page to see more spreads of the magazine and order your copy before it sells out.
