SPACE FOR FREE is an independent architecture zine produced by a collective of students and recent graduates spanning the border between the United States and Canada, with faculty support. The zine provides a forum for the study of spaces that are accessible to anyone, for any use, for free. Each issue is devoted to the documentation of one space through drawing, photography, contextual analysis and a micro-essay. SPACE FOR FREE does not differentiate between anonymous and authored architecture; spaces documented in the zine can be any scale, and might be temporary, ad-hoc, self-built or formal, “designed” places. The zine presents architecture as populist and inclusive, and spaces are published in an investigatory spirit, to be documented and studied further, with the ultimate hope that SPACE FOR FREE, for everyone and everything, will proliferate worldwide. Spaces are selected for publication through an open call and zines are available at bookstores in Canada, the US, and New Zealand.

Stephanie Davidson founded SPACE FOR FREE in 2023 with a group of Toronto students. Davidson works with Georg Rafailidis as DAVIDSON RAFAILIDIS.

Eira Roberts is a coeditor of SPACE FOR FREE. She holds a bachelor’s of interior design and is a master’s of architecture candidate at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Roxana Cordon-Ibanez works at the Royal Ontario Museum and the Gardiner Museum. She holds a bachelor’s of interior design from Toronto Metropolitan University.

The SPACE FOR FREE zine was developed in 2023 as a way of studying and sharing findings about spaces in cities that are available to everyone, for free. SPACE FOR FREE is made up by a cross-border team (Canada-USA) and the initiative is dedicated to free space everywhere. The publication aims to give students and recent graduates a means to contribute to contemporary architectural discourse. The project received support from the Graham Foundation in fall 2023, enabling the publication, to-date, of eight issues. In the spirit of free space, the posterzine is also free, and copies from each small print run are shared with bookstores in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand.