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Four magazines on Architectural Criticism 2005-2010: a Perspective from 2015Carlo MenonThe Bartlett School of Architecture, LondonMy original contribution to the workshops is the comparative analysis of four issues of architectural journals on criticism, all published in the same period 2005-2010:1. Jane Rendell ed. Critical Architecture. The Journal of Architecture, vol. 10, no. 3 (2005).2. Johan Lagae, Marc Schoonderbeek, Tom Avermaete, Andrew Leach eds, Positions. Shared Territories in Historiography &#38; Practice. OASE, no. 69 (2006).3. Isabelle Doucet and Kenny Cupers, eds., Agency in Architecture: Reframing Criticality in Theory and Practice. Footprint no. 4 (Spring 2009).4. Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Johan Lagae, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Tom Vandeputte eds., Constructing Criticism, OASE, no. 81 (2010).At this stage, my take on these publications is that they have been published at a turning-point in recent history, in between the observation of a “crisis of criticism” and the proposal, in theory, of new possibilities. As such, I intend to assess these proposals from the perspective of today: how, in practice, they have been considered, overtaken, or disregarded by the even more recent editorial practices that have emerged in 2010-2015. Such editorial projects (like San Rocco, Criticat, P.E.A.R., face b, Club Donny, etc.) avoid a purely academic position in order to turn to a larger architectural public, “in and out of academia”. If they cannot address the lay public — which architectural magazine ever does? — they have the merit to enlarge the spectrum of readership by giving a new value to the printed magazine.My MA thesis on five architectural magazines of the 1990s (ANY, Terrazzo, UME, Le Visiteur and Zodiac) and my ongoing PhD research offer a valid framework to this analysis. The round-table I organized in 2012 between several editors of recent magazines also provides first-hand material to my contribution to the workshop.&#160;Carlo Menon (Italy, 1981) is a qualified architect and a researcher in history and theory, with degrees from La Cambre, Brussels (2006) and Te Bartlett, London (2013). He lives between London and Brussels where he participates in various teaching, exhibiting and publishing projects, including the large-format, experimental magazine Accattone.His Master thesis “The Missing Decade? Architectural Magazines of the 1990s” was nominated for the RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2014. His ongoing PhD research project at Te Bartlett — ‘Little’ Architectural Magazines of the Early 21st Century: Critical Devices and Collective Practice, In and Out of Academia — brings the study up to the present. Designed as a critical ethnography, it involves practice-based experiences in writing and editing. It is supervised by Jane Rendell and Penelope Haralambidou and supported by the LAHP London Arts and Humanities Partnership.