From 2014 to 2018 I was an editor at 255 – Experimental Editorial Architecture.
255 is an open source, horizontal editorial platform which is constantly experimenting with knowledge production in architecture through combining discourse and format in shameless, bold, innovative ways.
255 is a collective, grassroots, student-run initiative. It has been exhibited at the Spanish Pavillion of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, Museo Reina Sofia, Matadero Madrid, Istanbul Design Biennial, C2M, or COAM, amongst others.
With a print run of 1000 copies per issue, 255 was initially conceived as a student initiative from the Madrid School of Architecture.
255 is not a magazine. 255 is not a building. 255 is not a school. 255 is not an office.
255 is architecture.
It is
an experimental
architectural
editorial
platform
of critical thought and material experimentation.
255 is formed of a
series of productive contradictions of opposites:
material/immaterial
graphic/textual
expert/amateur
academic/punk
anonymous/renowned
analogue/digital
255 is a produced format that is always fresh
horizontal
processual
variable
tactile
visual
collective thought-provoking
Architecture in 255 is a process, a discursive tool, a thought process, and a mode of production.
We think through architecture, we write architecture, we act architecture, we print architecture, we interrogate architecture, we question architecture. We open up architecture.
We project architecture onto a larger field of vision.
