Observations on Little ReunionsAuthor(s): Cynthia DavidsonSource: Log, No. 9 (Winter/Spring 2007), p. 28Published by: Anyone CorporationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41765131 .

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Observations on Little Reunions

After a discussion at New York's Storefront for Art and Archi- TECTURE, ALL EYES WERE ON EMCEE Beatriz Colomina. From left to right: Oppositions founding edi- tors Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, and Mario Gandel- SONAS, WITH "LATECOMER" (ISSUES 6-26) EDITOR ANTHONY VlDLER. (Editors Kurt W. Forster, issues 12-25, and Diana Agrest, issue 26, and designer Massimo Vignelli were not present.) At far right: Daniel Lopez-Perez and Urtzi Grau, co-organizers of the event. Photo: Cynthia Davidson

Tuesday y January 2 J, 2007, was almost a historic occasion . The event: a "small talk" on Oppositions (New York), Lotus (Milan), and Arquitecturas Bis ( Barcelona ) at New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture, in conjunction with the exhi- bition " Clip/Stamp/Fold : The Radical Architecture of Little

Magazines 19 6X - Î97X." The speakers: Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, and Anthony Vidier ; all

former Oppositions editors and currently professors at " compet- ing

" institutions : Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and The Cooper Union, respectively. Finding all of them in one room is a rare occurrence. The jam-packed gallery was standing room only Ç actually , there were no chairs), leading Frampton to say he felt like a former Beatle ; when Vidier took the microphone, he claimed in a displaced Cockney accent to be the youngest Beatle (wasn't that George?). Host Beatriz Colomina - who also led the show's curatorial team - asked the editors to speak about Lotus and

Aquitecturàs Bis, but they remained focused on their joint project, the orange -jacketed Oppositions, 26 issues of which were pro- duced at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies on West 40th Street before it closed in 198 J. Seen in the context of the mostly European magazines in the show, it was clear that Oppo- sitions broke new ground in American architectural publishing, creating a culture for architectural theory and history that previ- ously did not exist. As if mirroring that condition, of the mag's six editors, only Eisenman was born in the US. But he recognized a Beatle when he saw one. - Cynthia Davidson

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