MISANTHROPOZINE is a newish art and architecture journal that gathers essays, artefacts, souvenirs and speculative theory to probe architecture’s entanglements with other professions and areas of interest.
The publisher describes MISANTHROPOZINE as an artist book series disguised as an academic journal that walks-and-talks, in a search for new notions of open review, shared output, unshared authorship and collective reflection, ‘to assemble work in such a way that its arguments bubble at the surface. This surface is a visual landscape, and exploring it means helping ferment theories and ways that collide with the problem.’
Inside MISANTHROPOZINE No 4, Car Tuning for Architects:
'Architects in their Cars: 20 architects, 20 vehicles, 20 contradictions. From vintage fetishists to escapists to those who’ve handed over the keys entirely. A Crash Barrier Treatise by Jean Bernard Koeman A love story on Juliaan Lampens <3 Bosozoku Amber Meulenijzer’s Saabolina: a sound station disguised as a Saab A republication of Martine De Maeseneer, aka MDMa’s dotcom bubble office, with a freshly translated essay that still smells like Y2K Wouldn't You Like To Live Here? A playground by Marc Godts at scale 1:64 A visual essay on Hôtel Stok, the house that Luc Deleu & T.O.P. office tuned Aline Bouvy & Xavier Mary: a lecture-performance from the front seat of a Dodge Charger Plus TUNING JAPAN: a special section on the hyper-mediated, hyper-stylized tuning scene in Tokyo: - Tokyo Speed Dérive maps & a JDM pub crawl guide - Initial D tourism in the Gunma mountains - A 3D immersion in Yokohama’s Daikoku PA by Arthur Summereder - Kei truck camper builders vs. German tiny house purists And there’s a gossip section! Architects and their toys. Who’s driving what. Who’s still stuck in traffic. Take care + see you soon, MISANTHROPOZINE’
