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Robin Wilson

Just like these recurring figures, once read the spectre of Image, Text, Architecture hangs in the periphery when viewing any journal page. At a time when many are anxious of the journal’s future, Wilson’s book comes as a pertinent reminder that it still has much to give us, often in strange, unexpected ways. These engaging and enlightening snapshots from a handful of architectural journals demonstrate above all the complexity of the architectural journal – a ubiquitous means of dissemination but one we rarely grasp in its entirety. It is time we took these archives from their shelves and revisited them not as historical artefacts, but as the sites of discourse on the architectural media that are still very much alive. f

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