Conceived as part of the one-year investigation Catching Up with Life, A Section of Now aims to re-establish a dialogue between architecture and society that would allow for architecture to begin to contend with and address our changed and changing social norms. The publication serves as a meditation on new behaviours, rituals, and values and their spatial implications and seeks to catalyze urban and architectural interventions that accommodate, influence, and, in some cases, pre-empt our new lived realities. Authors address topics ranging from the safety of digital spaces to how normative life trajectories affect the elderly and the many selves each of us puts forward, while architects present frameworks for spaces for blended families, thirty-year-old retirees, and contested monuments, among many others. Bringing together analytical essays about the contemporary moment and the direction in which society is moving, projective texts that outline new architectural types to address societal needs, alongside television series, photography, and architecture and design projects, A Section of Now outlines a new relationship between the spaces in which we live and the ways we live within them.

Editor: Giovanna Borasi
With contributions from Andrea Bellavita, Tei Carpenter, Mario Gooden, Melissa Harris, Helen Hester, Sam Jacob, Andrés Jacque, Joanne McNeil, Ann Neumann, Nina Power, Anna Puigjaner, Karla Rothstein, Hilary Sample, Jen Schradie, SO-IL, Traumnovelle, and Sumayya Vally
Graphic design: Folder Studio

Co-published with Spector Books
Softcover, 368 pages

Contributors: 2050+ and -orama; Agency-Agency; Christopher Anderson; Nicolas Asfouri, Assemble Studio; Center for Spatial Technologies; Certain Measures; Dan Chen; Sam Chermayeff Office; Benson Chien and Samantha Ingallina; Aaron M. Cohen; Thaddé Comar; Common Accounts; Coop Himmelb(l)au; Estudio Teddy Cruz+Fonna Forman and Kotti+Co; Degelo Architekten and Gamperle AG; Cynthia Deng and Arta Perezic; Jamie Diamond; DOGMA and New Academy; Elena Dorfman; Expanded Design; Lucas Foglia; Maison Edouard François; The Future Market; Salwan Georges; Ginger Design Studio; Mario Gooden; Paul Graham; Michelle Groskopf; Max Hampshire, Paul Kolling, and Paul Seidler; Ai Hasegawa; Go Hasegawa+Associates; Helen Hester; Het Nieuwe Instituut; HOME-OFFICE; Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal; Sam Jacob; Andrés Jaque; Dafydd Jones; Valérian Mazataud; June14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff; Anaïs Langlais-Schmidt; LATENT Productions and Columbia University GSAPP DeathLAB; Jesse LeCavalier; Joanne McNeil; Lucy McRae; Mueller Sigrist Architekten; Christinne Muschi; Ann Neumann; N H D M; Ewa Nowak; Brittany M. Powell; Nina Power; Alice Proujansky; Anna Puigjaner MAIO; Karla Rothstein; Kamila Rudnicka; Nadia Sablin; Hilary Sample; Klemens Schillinger; Michael Schmelling; Jen Schradie; Jack Self; SO–IL; Space Popular; Giulia Spadafora; Special Projects; Marie-Claire Springham; Stefan Marx; OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen; Other Architects; Pollard Thomas Edwards; Republic of Estonia; reWork; Something Fantastic; StrongArm Technologies; Takahashi Ippei Office; Teple Misto; terra0; Bryan Thomas; Traumnovelle; Elisabeth Ubbe; UNSense; Sumayya Vally; Jonas Voigt, Philipp Schmitt, and Stephan Bogner; Aubrey Wade; Christoph Wagner Architekten; Nick Waplington; Williamson Williamson; Hardy Wilson; Yangying Ye.

This publication is part of the CCA’s one-year investigation Catching Up with Life.