Sniffin' Concrete

An excellent site devoted to beautifully and cheaply designed architectural publications of the 1960s. It's a terrible shame that the architectural press is so drably Wallpaper-esque, as this really need not be the case- from the 20s to the 70s this was perhaps the sexiest area of print design. There's a case to be made too that in Archigram magazine architecture had both its psychedelia and its punk at once, with its deliberately shoddy and disposable paper. Ian Abley claims to have once published an architecture zine called Sniffin' Concrete, which makes perfect sense. Link from the great I Like.

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