Wham! Zoom! Zing! Rave! – and it's not Ready Steady Go, even though it sometimes looks like it. The sound effects are produced by the erupting of underground architectural protest magazines. Architecture, staid queen mother of the arts, is no longer courted by plush glossies and cool scientific journals alone, but is having her skirts blown up and her bodice unzipped by irregular newcomers which are – typically – rhetorical, with-it, moralistic, misspelled, improvisatory, anti-smooth, funny-format, cliquey, art-oriented but stoned out of their minds with science fiction images of an alternative architecture that would be perfectly possible tomorrow if only the Universe (and especially the Law of Gravity) were differently organized. Reyner Banham (1966)

De explosieve opkomst van nieuwe, kleine architectuurbladen heeft in de jaren zestig en zeventig van de vorige eeuw een radicale verandering in de architectuur teweeg gebracht. De architectuur van de tijdschriften wedijverde met gebouwen als dé plek voor innovatie en debat.