
Architects After Architecture
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In this volume, we meet forty practitioners through profiles, case studies, and interviews, who have used their architectural training in new and resourceful ways to tackle the climate crisis, work with refugees, advocate for diversity, start tech companies, become leading museum curators, tackle homelessness, draft public policy, become developers, design videogames, shape public discourse, and much more.
Together, they describe a future of architecture that is diverse and engaged, expanding the limits of the discipline, and offering new paths forward in times of crisis. Whether you are an architecture student or a practicing architect considering a change, you'll find this an encouraging and inspiring read.
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RORY HYDE is the curator of contemporary architecture and urbanism at the Victoria and Albert Museum; adjunct senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne; and a design advocate for the Mayor of London. He is the author of Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture (2012).
ROBERTA MARCACCIO is an editor and an educator at the Architectural Association in London. Her writings on historical as well as emerging modes of practice have featured on Architectural Design, AA Files, and Blueprint, and in the books Real Estates: Life Without Debt (2014) and Erasmus Effect (2014).
Content
Harriet Harriss, Rory Hyde, Roberta Marcaccio
ARCHITECTURE AFTER ARCHITECTURE
Jeremy Till
DESIGNING FOR THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
A case study by Sarah Wigglesworth
'WHOSE VOICE COUNTS?'
Interview with Liza Fior, Muf
SPACES TO SPEAK
Justine Clark, Parlour
ON MIS-FITTING
Jos Boys
'ARCHITECTURE IS A WAY TO CONSTRUCT SOCIETY'
Interview with Andres Jaque, OFFPOLINN
DESIGNING WITH CHILDREN
A case study by Interboro
FROM EXCLUSION TO INCLUSION
Joel Sanders
PRACTICE AS PROJECT
Public Works with Angharad Davies
AN ALTERNATIVE PRACTICE IN TIMES OF CRISIS
Doina Petrescu, aaa
PRIDE IN MAKING
Interview with Takeshi Hayatsu
REVIVING THE ALMS HOUSE
A case study by Peter Barber
THE ARCHITECT-ORGANIZER
Sib Trigg, PEACH
'WE WANTED TO DO THINGS OURSELVES'
Interview with Jane Hall, Assemble
SAY IT LOUD
Pascale Sablan
BUILDING DIVERSITY
Elsie Owuso on Baroness Lawrence
DECONSTRUCTION
A case study by Rotor
UNDERGROUND ARCHITECTURE
Ant Farm in conversation with WORKac
THE SELF AS A DESIGN SUBJECT
Jack Self
THE ARCHITECT-DEVELOPER
Roger Zogolovitch
WHEN IS AN ARCHITECT NOT AN ARCHITECT?
Holly Lewis, We Made That
DEPROFESSIONALISM
Peggy Deamer
'ONLY A CRIMINAL CAN SOLVE THE CRIME'
Interview with Eyal Weizman and Christina Varvia, Forensic Architecture
ARCHITECTURE AFTER CONFLICT
Malkit Shoshan, FAST
TO PROGRAM A SITE
Kimberli Meyer
EXHIBITION-MAKING
Judith Clark
BUILDINGS TASTE LONELY TO ME
A case study by Alex Schweder
FROM ARCHITECTURE TO VIDEOGAMES
Miriam Bellard, Rockstar North
'IT'S WHERE DIFFERENT FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE COLLIDE'
Interview with Matt Jones, Google
FROM ARCHITECTURE TO TECH
Blake Hudelson and Gavin Johns, Architechie
'CRYPTOCURRENCY HAS ENTERED MAINSTREAM CONSCIOUSNESS'
Interview with Matt Storus
SEEING UPSIDE-DOWN AND AROUND CORNERS
Scott Paterson
RECLAIMING ATTENTION
A case study by Studio Folder
DESIGN FOR HOMELESSNESS
Chris Hildrey
'WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ALL THE DETAILS WERE PUT BACK IN THE STORY?'
Interview with Damon Rich
PUBLIC PRACTICE
Finn Williams
PERSONAL-PRIVATE, PROFESSIONAL-POLITICAL
Shelley Penn
ARCHITECTS FOR THE HUMANITARIAN SECTOR
Shareen Elnaschie, ODD
THE FREE WORLD
Robert Mull
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