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Redefining Practice
Chris Bryant (Guest editor), Caspar Rodgers (Guest editor), Tristan Wigfall (Guest editor)
9781119328148, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 21 September 2018
136 pages
28.5 x 20.8 x 1 cm, 0.59 kg
New modes of practice are now emerging in architecture. Rural Studio, Exyzt, Muf, Assemble and many more have led the way by challenging conventional ideas of ‘The Architect' and reclaiming the notion of architecture as something public that should work ultimately towards the collective good. This quiet revolution is born out of a crisis in the profession and a wider vacuum in the political, environmental and economic situation. On the one hand, architecture as a profession has seen its influence diminish rapidly over the last 50 years through privatisation and the dominance of finance, while on the other hand it has also lacked collective courage and readiness to evolve. Without necessarily being aware of each other, studios around the world are now redefining the profession of architecture as something more proactive, self-aware and political. They are broadening their skill sets and becoming deeply involved in their projects, initiating them themselves, financing them and running them. Though much of this work is dealing with local issues at a relatively small scale, it is inherently ambitious with global application.
About the Guest-Editors 5 Introduction: The Changing Forms and Values of Architectural Practice 6 Constitutive Crises: Radical Practice and the Definition of the Centre 14 Diversification of The Role: Financing the Expanded Field: Adding Value Through Innovative Practice 22 Building Digital Stories: Architecture and Cartography Meet Documentary and Journalism 30 Towards an Intermediary Practice: Bucharest Laboratory 38 The Architect as Optimist: Carl Turner 44 The Power of Localism: Architectural Localism as Damage Control in the Face of Globalism and Digitisation 50 Co-produced Urban Resilience: A Framework for Bottom-Up Regeneration 58 Collective Intelligences: The Future is Hybrid 66 Seriously Playful: Designing Beyond the Expected in Guatemala City 72 Architect as Disruptor: Going from Zero to 00: Indy Johar on Shifting the Focus of Practice from Objects to Outcomes 78 Down by the River: Design for Organising 86 Bricks and Mercury: A Story of Buildings and Ideas 92 Shifting the Line: Reclaiming Space for Social Interaction 98 Policy Strategy and Common Good: Designing Upstream: Rebuilding Agency Through New Forms of Public Practice 104 Common Scales: From the Intimate and Human to the Strategic and Influential 116 Participative Architecture: The Way to More Environmental Justice 122 Counterpoint: Practising in the Margins High Turnover, Low Cost 128 Contributors 134
Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]
