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Dear XOXO,

We are happy to announce a new MISANTHROPOZINE issue.

MISANTHROPOZINE is an art & architecture journal that explores the outer edges and inner contradictions of architecture as both discipline and cultural practice. Each issue operates like a curated detour—gathering essays, artefacts, souvenirs, and speculative theory to probe architecture’s entanglements with other domains.

It starts with a low hum. A purr. A glint of steel in the sun. You’re not sure if it’s a car ad or a building reveal. Doesn’t matter. The lines are blurred. The upcoming issue of MISANTHROPOZINE, Car Tuning for Architects, dives into that blur, modifying cultures in which both performance and looks are altered.

We will lean into subcultures, into spoilers, body kits, neon underglow, and the language of torque and trim, and see ourselves reflected back. What if the tuning scene, with its rituals and lore, its heroes and hacks, is just architecture with better sound design?

We collected stories, travelogues and gossip, and framed buildings like modded cars. And we’re asking: are we just trailer queens too? Is our discipline a subculture we can’t see clearly from the inside? To paraphrase Vin Diesel: I ain’t got clarity, I got family.

Inside the issue:

Architects in their Cars: 20 architects, 20 vehicles, 20 contradictions. From vintage fetishists to escapists to those who’ve handed over the keys entirely.

A Crash Barrier Treatise by Jean Bernard Koeman

A love story on Juliaan Lampens <3 Bosozoku

Amber Meulenijzer’s Saabolina: a sound station disguised as a Saab

A republication of Martine De Maeseneer, aka MDMa’s dotcom bubble office, with a freshly translated essay that still smells like Y2K

Would You Like To Live Here? A playground by Marc Godts

A visual essay on Hôtel Stok, the house that Luc Deleu & T.O.P. office tuned

Aline Bouvy & Xavier Mary: a lecture-performance from the front seat of a Dodge Charger

Also: Tuning Japan—a special section on the hyper-mediated, hyper-stylized tuning scene in Tokyo:

Tokyo Speed Dérive maps & a JDM pub crawl guide

Anime vs AFK tuning in the Gunma mountains

3D immersion in Yokohama’s Daikoku PA by Arthur Summereder

Kei truck camper builders vs. German tiny house purists

And there’s a gossip section! Architects and their toys. Who’s driving what. Who’s still stuck in traffic.

Take care + see you soon,

MISANTHROPOZINE TEAM

Pieterjan Ginckels, with Manou Van den Eynde, Nicolas Claessens, Pola Machinska, Aron Rösing, Amin Jegham (Editors)

255x210mm

128pp

Contributors: Monika Pattern, Andreas Nonneman, Jean Bernard Koeman, Amber Meulenijzer, Cecelia Vincent, Ada Zielińska, Martine De Maeseneer architects, Marc Godts, Luc Deleu & T.O.P. office, Aline Bouvy, Xavier Mary, Polycarbonara, Yuday Kawase, Takutotrip, Mai Tatsumi, Arthur Summereder; and the architects in their cars: Agus Dharsana, Amelie Brauer, Andreas Nonneman, Anna Maria Indrio, Breg Horemans, Jack London Freedman, Jimenez Lai, Laura Linsi & Roland Reemaa, Leo Sixsmith, Louis Weber, Matthew Ryan Vander Ploeg, Nicolai Richter-Friis, Orin Torati, Pieterjan Ginckels, Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei, Simon Lucas, Špela Hudnik, Sven Sterken, Trey Marshall and Willem Coenen.

www.misanthropozine.com

Die Pleite is the first part of a two-volume catalogue accompanying Stian Ådlandsvik’s exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus. Blending archival material with contemporary fragments, the publication traces the occupation of Kunstnernes Hus during World War II through letters, lists, and objects. Historical inventories are overlaid with images and descriptions of items from recent bankruptcy estates, creating a dialogue between collapse and value. The second volume, to be released in 2026, will include documentation of the exhibition and an essay situating the project within broader artistic and historical contexts.

Graphic design by Joachim Bartsch / ARC Berlin

Bruised Features / Negative Growth is a publication presenting works by Stian Ådlandsvik from 2017–2018 that explore collapse, repair, and transformation through material and conceptual shifts. The book brings together works that trace the marks of damage and adaptation, reflecting on value, decay, and resilience in both form and thought. It features essays by Stacy Ho and Stian Gabrielsen.

Graphic design by Joachim Bartsch / ARC Berlin