first day of research

so i went downtown, it was raining and i headed to vcc and then to the architectural institute of british columbia, i went in and asked if they publish a magazine, turns out they do, it is a quarterly publication, the woman @ thereception gave me a copy and two businesscards of the two main editors, one male, one female. The magazine has about 3700 copies printed (each volume) and it has forty pages, which means there are twenty pieces of paper that are printed, doublesided. It is kind of glossy, full of images and exactly the format i detest for this my project.Anyhow, i walk thru the rain to the next stop: "the contemporary artgallery". chat with the receptionist, who is supernice, and head in to scrutinize the exhibition. I must add that i had listened to the lecture by the curator, whose name is beatriz colombia, she teaches at princeton and started this exhibit at "the storefront of art and architecture" in nyc, the exhibit then travelled to montreal and, i guess berlin and amsterdam, and finally to the cag here in vancitay. The lecture i listened to was in ubc robson street, the name of the exhibit is "clip, stamp, fold", it is mainly about little magazines that are about architecture, most of them were published 1n 1960 to 1980, lots of them very rudimentary, produced at people's kitchentables, and they were dealing with a lot of things, not necessarily architecture. they supposedly mimick a movement in the 1920's and 1930' where little magazines were a precursor for changes in the "making" of buildings. anyways, what was fascinating about the magazinecovers is the stab at taking writing about architecture into a different direction, trying to add to the discourse of architecture, trying to bridge the gap between theory and practice. so, maybe my next research should be into film and animationmagazines. because in the end, i want to do research into stategies for publishing a magazine called "on animation and architecture", so i am kind of baffled @ where 2 start, i put down my experience into the journey towards finishing this researchproject into this blog. It is for my "professional practice" class at the emily carr university in vancouver.