In our second print edition, En Pointe Vol. 2, we explore the concept of “making space,” a common thread among our interviews and an idea that takes on many forms within the cultural lexicon. From placemaking to making way, Vol. 2 highlights interviews with architects, curators, artists, writers, and entrepreneurs who seek clarity in approaching and manipulating the space they inhabit. In this issue, you’ll hear from those clearing a place for themselves in their industries, pushing institutional boundaries to expand accessibility, and designing spaces that subvert expectations and incite change.

Featuring interviews with: Denise Shanté Brown, Fernanda Canales, Lenka Clayton, Rachel Delphia, Tara Fay, Saba Innab, Jonsara Ruth, Annie Wang, and Alisha Wormsley.

2023

7.5 in. W x 11.375 in. H (folded)

30 in. W x 22.75 in. H (unfolded)

The first print edition of En Pointe, our series of interviews exploring the creative processes of inspiring people who work on impactful architecture, design, exhibition, research, and publication projects.

This first edition, En Pointe Vol. 1: Pittsburgh, is an elegant and fun showcase of twelve creative and innovative individuals whose work shapes the city of Pittsburgh.

Interviews featuring:

Seth Clark, Mary-Lou Arscott, Kilolo Luckett, Raymund Ryan, Anne Chen, Mitch McEwen, Nina Barbuto, Paul Zelevansky, Gerard Damiani, José Carlos Diaz, Casey Droege, Ingrid Schaffner

7.5 in. W x 11.375 in. H (folded)

30 in. W x 22.75 in. H (unfolded)

Our tote takes on a new look! Hand-printed with love by the PLP team, this limited edition tote features playful shapes and our classic PLP stacked logo. It’s the perfect everyday bag for snacks, books, work, or just looking cool. 

*Add copies of En Pointe Vol. 1 & 2 for $2

15 in. H x 15 in. W

100% cotton

Hand wash only. 

The same high-quality tote printed with love from the PLP team but with some endearing imperfections.

This limited PLP Tote features playful shapes and our classic PLP stacked logo. It’s the perfect everyday bag for snacks, books, work, or just looking cool. 

*Add En Pointe Vol. 1 and 2 for $2

15 in. H x 15 in. W

100% cotton

Hand wash only. 

By Ioanna Theocharopoulou

Foreword by Kenneth Frampton

Athens’ most distinctive building type, polykatoikía, and its different connotations through the decades: from a monotonous and ugly element of the city to the role it might play in the urban sustainability. Sprawling beneath the Acropolis, modern Athens is commonly viewed in negative terms: congested, ugly and monotonous. “Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens” questions this stereotype, reassessing the explosive growth of postwar Athens through its most distinctive building type: the polykatoikía (a small-scale multistory apartment block).
Theocharopoulou re-evaluates the polykatoikía as a low-tech, easily constructible innovation that stimulated the postwar urban economy, triggering the city’s social mid-twentieth-century transformation. The interiors of the polykatoikía apartments reflect a desire for modernity as marketed to housewives through film and magazines. Regular builders became unlikely allies in designing these polykatoikía interiors, enabling inhabitants to exert agency over their daily lives and the shape of the postwar city.
This revised edition of Theocharopoulou’s study draws on popular media as well as urban and regional planning theory, cultural studies and anthropology to examine the evolution of this phenomenon. Written in the light of Greece’s recent financial crisis, the book’s updated Postscript considers the role polykatoikía might play in building an equitable and sustainable twenty-first-century city.

Misrememberings is a tiny book of unedited journal entries by Makenzie O’Connor. Created in conjunction with watercolor paintings as part her solo exhibition Misrememberings, these writings explore memory, dissociative amnesia, disorientation, and managing madness.