22-07-24 // MONU: 20 YEARS OF INDEPENDENT THINKING

MONU’s first and current issue juxtaposed in igloo #220

The Bucharest-based igloo architecture magazine featured MONU in their issue #220 as an experimental architecture magazine that inspired them by proposing a different discourse having become a graphic and editorial manifesto.

The feature includes an interview entitled “MONU: 20 Years of Independent Thinking” with Bernd Upmeyer starting like this:

How did you start a magazine on urban phenomena? What was then – and what is now – the aim of the magazine?
Bernd Upmeyer: I started MONU around 20 years ago with the intention of creating a platform for the exchange of ideas, independent thinking, and as a board for debate. This excited me at the beginning and it still interests me today. The idea to create a board on which discussions and creative processes can take place fascinated me to such an extent that I even called my architecture office, that I founded in Rotterdam only shortly after the creation of the magazine, “BOARD”, which is an acronym for “Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design”. Ever since then, I create MONU with the help of this office, which functions as a platform for many diverse activities on its own…

Cover of igloo #220

20 Years of Independent Thinking