Numero monografico "Riviste di architettura. Traiettorie"
Abstract
This article proposes to revisit the roundtable organised on March 18th, 2021 at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne by Nicole Cappellari and Julien Correia on the subject of architectural journals as a tool for the production and dissemination of architectural and urban theories between 1950 and 1980. The idea here is to extend the testimony offered by the French architect, historian and theorist Jacques Lucan on his experience as editor-in-chief of several journals, including “AMC” (1977-1987) and “Matières” (1997-2020), through an interview based on specific questions. The idea to put the history of the architectural journal over the last forty years into perspective by trying to highlight its main phases of evolution from what we call the belle époque to the recent digitisation of certain publications and the massification of social networks. We will also try to characterize the idea of a revue de tendance more precisely and better understand its relevance for our time. The role of journals as a laboratory and a channel for theory in the making will also be discussed. Finally, we will identify the causes of the editorial slowdown since the end of the 1990s by contrasting it with the optimism, resistance and committed regular creation of little magazines and committed journals.
