Architectural Review 1500

Today’s editorial team is part of a lineage that stretches back more than a century, and leaves in its tracks towers of magazines – pages full of stories that pushed boundaries and imagined worlds anew. Editing involves distilling ideas from a vast landscape of information, selecting words, arguments and images. Inevitably, more material falls to the cutting room floor than makes it into the ever-growing archive. What did not make the cut? What was deemed unimportant? What did the AR get wrong? Now that 1,499 issues have rolled off the presses, we find ourselves in a radically different context. The world is hurtling towards ecological disaster, and as we, the current AR editors, reflect on both the archive we are continuing to grow and the duty of an architecture magazine today, the 1,500th issue is an opportunity to revisit and critically reassess pieces from the AR’s history through an ecological lens. With the privilege of hindsight, we hope to reveal what our blind spots might be today.