Forum is a Dutch architectural magazine known as the mouthpiece of the structuralists. Forum is widely believed for its high quality graphics. The magazine is an organ of the society Architectura et Amicitia, founded in 1946 in cooperation with the Royal Society for the Advancement of Architecture or the Union of Dutch Architects. Forum announces itself as Forum for Architecture and Related Arts in other words as a platform for architects and practitioners of the bounded arts. The journal abandons the critical distance so characteristic of the classical architectural journal and takes its own position in the contemporary architectural field. The journal is unique in that it is produced completely independently by the profession itself without a publisher. When it was founded, the goal was to narrow the gap between modern and traditional architecture. Forum group In 1959 Jaap Bakema and Aldo van Eyck took over the editorship of Forum, and Herman Hertzberger, Dick Apon, Gert Boon, Joop Hardy and Jurriaan Schrofer joined the editorial board. In this Forum, they expressed their criticism of CIAM's modernism and sought to develop a new architectural style that amounted to a structuralist approach: buildings with a geometric structure of small units, related to the human scale. The editors asserted their influence on the architectural education of the time, causing their vision to spread rapidly. Furthermore, for that time relevant themes such as participation, small scale, crossing disciplines and the integral approach of a neighborhood in the design of an architectural environment were addressed. As a result, people spoke of Forum architecture. After 1969, educational reforms brought an end to the magazine and its editorial staff. After that, the magazine appeared rather irregularly. The 39th volume of the magazine won the Rotterdam Design Prize in 2001. The four issues of this volume were by Jop van Bennekom and Erik Wong. The prize money amounted to 40 000 guilders. With this, the magazine was able to finance a subsequent volume. Starting in 2005, the magazine, which previously appeared six or four times a year, was converted to an annual publication. In 2008, Architectura et Amicitia released Ton Schaap's publication Amsterdam under the banner of Forum. In 20th-century architecture, the magazine Forum[2] gained similar recognition to the earlier magazines De Stijl (1917-1931) and Wendingen (1918-1932). All three made contributions to international movements such as Structuralism, International Style and Expressionism. Compared to the two earlier journals, Forum has a longer existence, from 1946 to the present. During these years an internationally relevant phase can be identified from 1959 to 1973. Editors Jaap Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, Herman Hertzberger and John Habraken were primarily responsible for Forum publications from this time, along with project contributions by Piet Blom. It is striking that Forum's avant-garde period was as short as that of De Stijl and Wendingen. (Source Wikipedia. April 2018)