REAL REVIEW

eventually leading to the debut issue of ‘REAL Review’ being selected as the site’s ‘Staff Pick Project’ within the course of just 12 hours, this super rookie is not only a media darling, but also the most interesting architectural publication at the moment. With its catchphrase, ‘What It Means To Live Today’ becoming the core philosophy of its content production, the publication causes one to rethink and reconsider the concept of architecture, the name ‘REAL Review’ itself a demonstration of how a ‘real’ architectural review should be carried out in the 21st century.

The interesting lineup of articles range from ‘What You Should Think About Architecture’ and ‘Kim Jong-il’s Magnificent Monuments’ in North Korea to an interview with Lord Peter Palumbo about the one and only unbuilt project of Mies van der Rohe in England. Another interesting thing about REAL Review is the design of the magazine format that comes in the physicality of, as cited in the magazine’s introductory page, a ‘thick and demented travel brochure…designed to be stuffed in jeans pockets, not sitting idle on a coffee table…to be thumbed, read, and passed around…’ While many conventional architectural publications are being replaced by online media and disappearing from the interest of the digitalized generation, REAL Review strives for anything but.