Between 1978 and 1983, Skyline was published as a monthly tabloid newspaper by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. Borrowing equally from tabloid, journal, magazine, and broadsheet formats, Skyline was hard to pin down and define by virtue of its range and breadth. Primarily edited by women and transmitting a broad spectrum of voices and content, Skyline operated as a big tent publication with a monthly array of editorials, advertisements, commentary, and high and low forms of writing. Rereading the newspaper as an amplifier of pluralistic design culture, this project reconsiders Skyline as an ephemeral landmark for the contemporary publishing landscape, now replete with online newsletters, critical blogs, design calendars, and newspapers. By researching historical evidence in archives and interviewing key authors and editors, this project gathers firsthand perspectives about actors and media contexts, to assist in the assembling of selected texts to be republished in a subsequent anthology.

Alex Maymind is an educator, historian, and designer, and assistant professor at the School of Architecture, University of Minnesota, where he most recently served as the director of undergraduate studies. He has taught at Cornell University, University of Michigan, where he was awarded the 2012–13 Walter B. Sanders Fellowship, among other institutions. Maymind’s research focuses on the history and theory of architectural institutions, institutionality, and pedagogy. His books include Revisiting Revisiting (Graham Foundation, 2015), and his essays have been published in Log, Pool, The Real Review, Thresholds, and Pidgin. He holds degrees from University of California, Los Angeles, Yale University, and Ohio State University. His scholarly and creative work has been recognized by the Graham Foundation, the Canadian Center for Architecture, and Yale University

Lauren McQuistion is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning and a PhD Candidate in the Constructed Environment at the University of Virginia. Her creative and scholarly work engages a critical re-examination of institutional structures and their entanglement with the built environment, work situated within broader questions of disciplinary autonomy and the role of spatial practice and design media in times of socio-political and environmental crisis. Her dissertation, focused on the architectural history of the Whitney Museum of American Art, examines the evolving relationship between architectural form, institutional identity, and cultural authority. Her scholarship has been recognized by Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation’s Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Constructed Environment Research Network.

David Turturo is an architect and educator whose work explores the intersection of architecture and history in the postwar United States. Turturo holds degrees from Syracuse University, Harvard University, and Yale University, where their doctoral research, “Caryatid: Architecture and the Framing of Bodies” (forthcoming, Axiomatic Editions, 2026), examined how architecture relates to the politics of figuration. A licensed architect, Turturo has practiced in New York, Boston, and San Francisco, focusing on adaptive reuse and sustainable design. An assistant professor at Texas Tech University, Turturo teaches design, history, and theory while developing publications on design pedagogy, American urbanism, and contemporary architecture culture.