The Avery Review Guest Editor 2025
APPLICATIONS DUE DECEMBER 1, 2024
GUEST EDITORS RECEIVE A STIPEND OF $2,500
The Avery Review, a journal of critical essays on architecture published by the Office of Publications at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, is calling for candidates to apply to be the Avery Review’s 2025 guest editor. The guest editor is expected to commission and develop essays based on a particular topic or area of interest, and will take part in our regular editorial process, including our annual Essay Prize. They are also invited to contribute their own essay. They will likely be a recent graduate (or will soon be graduating) from an architectural degree program—but there are no explicit requirements. The guest editor will receive a stipend of $2,500.
Should you be interested, please send us:
– Brief CV (two pages maximum)
– Contact information for two potential references
– A cover letter that discusses your particular editorial interests and topics you might want to pursue
Applications can be emailed to editors@averyreview.com with the subject line “guest editor.”
Candidates need not be located in the United States. The Avery Review aspires to broaden the diversity of voices in publishing, to support a wide range of perspectives on what constitutes architectural thought, and to encourage writers pursuing underexplored ideas. We welcome applicants who illuminate architecture’s blind spots, who oppose its many complicities, who resist its production of norms and its participation in spatial violence, and who champion a more open, more equal built environment. To that end, the guest editor is encouraged to pursue a particular editorial project or area of concentration, which should be detailed in the application cover letter.
Our 2024 guest editor, Taylor Miller, is commissioning a series of essays that examine and challenge the technologies, practices, histories of the border-security-industrial complex, advancing projects that are explicitly working against fortressing, from the US/Mexico borderlands, to occupied Palestine.
In 2023, guest editor Marisa Cortright, used the platform to amplify architectural workers whose writing and organizing seeks justice in architectural labor and beyond. The project invited the ABI Collective, an organization addressing the harms of architectural production, to advance a collective set of concerns to and for a broad architectural public. In 2022, guest editor Natalia Gulick de Torres, initiated the open call, Essays on the Concrete and Conceptual Caribbean, inviting essays that illuminate how the Caribbean and its built environment have been shaped materially and conceptually by colonial forces and their enduring legacies, as well as essays that visualize the Caribbean otherwise. Published across several issues, these essays move across multiple geographies—from New York City to Jamaica, Louisiana to Barbuda—and topics—from drill music to counter-monuments, poetry to preservation, land acts to video games. In 2021, guest editor Nasra Abdullahi immersed herself in all aspects of the Avery Review—exploring what it means to use the role as a space to familiarize oneself with the inner workings of editorial practice. In 2020, guest editor Desirée Valadares shifted the Avery Review’s geographical focus to current and former outlying US territories and possessions commissioning essays on island, archipelagic, and oceanic environments through US militarization, settler colonialism, resource extraction, Indigenous epistemologies, and anti-colonial performance in Hawai‘i, Okinawa, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. In 2019, Elsa MH Mäki commissioned new writing by Indigenous scholars whose work and community responsibilities articulate the stakes of design and building in this era, like confronting what it means to be included in the diversity economy and what recovery is (and for whom). In 2018, Imani Day cultivated an editorial project deeply rooted in contemporary Detroit and in the city’s rich theological, racial, and pedagogical history at the spiritual, the urban, or the educational scale.
Please forward to any candidates who you think would be right for the Avery Review!
Applications due December 1, 2024