On Saturday at 6:00 p.m., Magasin Tessin — the new journal for architecture, aesthetics, and environmental criticism — will be presented at Galerie S:t Petri.

Magasin Tessin is published in Lund by a group of younger architects and art historians in collaboration with the publishing house Bokförlaget Doxa.

Exactly fifty years ago, in 1930, the Stockholm Exhibition opened. It marked the definitive breakthrough for the direction in architecture known as functionalism, whose fundamental ideas have since influenced construction in our country and in much of Europe.

With the rise of large-scale, industrialized building in the 1960s and 1970s, the positive aspects of functionalism gradually disappeared, while its negative aspects became increasingly evident: the division of the city into separate functions, the resulting increase in private housing, and the proliferation of stereotypical, monotonous urban areas — first high-rises, then small houses, demolitions, and the depletion of old cities in favor of sterile architecture without decorative elements.

The criticism of functionalist ideas is almost as old as functionalism itself. But it is only since the 1970s that it has gained renewed attention — and with it, the need for alternatives to functionalism. New ways of thinking about cities and construction must now emerge. Magasin Tessin aims to be a forum for such alternatives.

• Magasin Tessin will address questions of architecture, design, and the urban environment from a broad cultural-historical, theoretical, and critical perspective. It will also connect with the humanistic research tradition, which believes that architects and planners must have the confidence to fulfill these tasks.

• Magasin Tessin seeks to make aesthetic issues come alive by activating and presenting debates and research across different artistic fields.

• Magasin Tessin strives to promote and broaden the discussion about the importance of the physical environment for human life.

Magasin Tessin will be published four times a year, with a total of over 200 pages of text, drawings, and images. A subscription costs 60 kronor. A single issue costs 20 kronor.

Magasin Tessin will be available in well-stocked bookstores and tobacco shops.