Launch “San Rocco Architecture Magazine”
February 10, 2016
Fragment of text written by Wonne Ickx in the aftermath of the San Rocco Summer School 2013 in Genoa, Italy. Students worked during an intensive week on a design for a Mosque in Genoa. Wonne Ickx was one of the instructors:
“The straightforward black and white drawings, the archaeologist-notebook-like sketches and the unpretentious figure-ground plans of Mosques are certainly one of the main reasons why some of these books on Muslim architecture have conquered a special position on my book stand. Maybe, my issues of San Rocco obtained a similar privileged place on the shelf for the same reason. The provocative black and white axonometric drawings that dress the magazine up, have become a powerful trademark. San Rocco is San Rocco because of its graphics, and its success is certainly strongly indebted to its solid visual character. It would not be too hard to imagine some of the texts appearing in the journal to be published elsewhere, but these black and white axonometric drawings seem to belong exclusively there.”
