About Pixel Points Pixel Points is a reference to an influential magazine called Pencil Points, the self-styled "journal for the drafting room," which first appeared in 1920 and was published until 1943. For a very long time print was the medium in which architecture was profiled and pictured, debated and discussed. These days the print culture of the field is dwindling — or reorganizing, to put it optimistically — and the drafting table has been replaced by the computer screen — developments whose merits can be debated, but which make the web an invigorating place to be. And no matter the medium, there's a lot to debate and discuss these days, for architecture is often maddening but never boring. It's become, in fact, one of those expansive cultural categories that can accommodate all sorts of topics — the value of diverse buildings, of course, but also the problem of our metastasizing suburbs, the fitful revitalization of urban America, the unfulfilled promise of sustainable technology, the relationship of building to landscape, the influence of computers on design, the decline of our public realm, the glamorous goings-on of celebrity designers, the commercialization of art practices . . . to name just some of the issues that Pixel Points will consider.