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May 25, 2004
Thousands of architecture fans, now out of pocket.* Hot on the heels of Lock's nifty new venture, Archinect goes and gets itself a face lift. Sporting the Media Temple Mafia treatment, it stands as the best resource of however you want to call the 'Not-Architectural Record' crowd. Almost ten years after Princeton Archtiectural Press gave it a go with Architecture Online (a private dial-up BBS that was a little too leading edge in aspiration), it looks like architecture fans may finally have something of an online community. Given the pace of launches this week, we may be witnessing a mini-bubble. Except, this being architecture, no one is going to make any money.
*I was told once that the phrase 'out of pocket' referred to a prostitute who operated without a pimp. The former (and lamented by some) tagline of Archinect was "Pimpin' architecture since 1997."