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The provenance of artworks is a burning issue in current scholarship and politics. Transpose provenance into architecture and it reveals new and surprising dimensions in the social, material and cultural lives of buildings and architectural artefacts, reframing questions of migration, movement and circulation. Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate(...)
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The provenance of artworks is a burning issue in current scholarship and politics. Transpose provenance into architecture and it reveals new and surprising dimensions in the social, material and cultural lives of buildings and architectural artefacts, reframing questions of migration, movement and circulation. Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate(...)
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Provenance in Architecture A Dictionary of Terms 1. Auflage
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The provenance of artworks is a burning issue in current scholarship and politics. Transpose provenance into architecture and it reveals new and surprising dimensions in the social, material and cultural lives of buildings and architectural artefacts, reframing questions of migration, movement and circulation. Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate trajectories of fundamentally composite objects from their complex origins to their uncertain destinations. This dictionary examines architectural provenance across 101 key concepts from "Acquisition" to "Will". The entries provide new ways of writing architectural history, highlighting how architecture moves, is destroyed, survives and is transformed.
Provenance in Architecture A Dictionary of Terms 1. Auflage
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The provenance of artworks is a burning issue in current scholarship and politics. Transpose provenance into architecture and it reveals new and surprising dimensions in the social, material and cultural lives of buildings and architectural artefacts, reframing questions of migration, movement and circulation. Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate trajectories of fundamentally composite objects from their complex origins to their uncertain destinations. This dictionary examines architectural provenance across 101 key concepts from "Acquisition" to "Will". The entries provide new ways of writing architectural history, highlighting how architecture moves, is destroyed, survives and is transformed.
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The construction industry is keen to give nature a bigger role in area development, but the road from ambition to realization and management is a challenging one. This book identifies key challenges encountered during the various phases of the planning process and highlights possible solutions drawn from practice. In ''Nature-inclusive Urban Development'' the authors(...)
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The construction industry is keen to give nature a bigger role in area development, but the road from ambition to realization and management is a challenging one. This book identifies key challenges encountered during the various phases of the planning process and highlights possible solutions drawn from practice. In ''Nature-inclusive Urban Development'' the authors(...)
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Nature-inclusive urban development: From experiments to governance
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The construction industry is keen to give nature a bigger role in area development, but the road from ambition to realization and management is a challenging one. This book identifies key challenges encountered during the various phases of the planning process and highlights possible solutions drawn from practice. In ''Nature-inclusive Urban Development'' the authors look back to the very first European eco-districts from the final decade of the twentieth century and examine what the concept has delivered for residents and nature. They also assess the effectiveness of several pioneering international points systems in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Malmö, Stockholm, and The Hague, among other cities. The book explores the operation and benefits of these points systems, and provides valuable solutions gleaned from interviews with practitioners in key positions. As such, nature-inclusive urban development offers practical pathways for overcoming governance challenges and fostering innovation for making cities biodiverse.
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The construction industry is keen to give nature a bigger role in area development, but the road from ambition to realization and management is a challenging one. This book identifies key challenges encountered during the various phases of the planning process and highlights possible solutions drawn from practice. In ''Nature-inclusive Urban Development'' the authors look back to the very first European eco-districts from the final decade of the twentieth century and examine what the concept has delivered for residents and nature. They also assess the effectiveness of several pioneering international points systems in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Malmö, Stockholm, and The Hague, among other cities. The book explores the operation and benefits of these points systems, and provides valuable solutions gleaned from interviews with practitioners in key positions. As such, nature-inclusive urban development offers practical pathways for overcoming governance challenges and fostering innovation for making cities biodiverse.
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Siegfried Kracauer’s texts are a widely investigated field of sociology and media studies. It is less well known that Kracauer was a graduate architect, practised during World War I and was awarded his PhD after writing a thesis in 1915 in the field of architectural history. After the war, Kracauer published numerous critiques with a special focus on the architectural(...)
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Siegfried Kracauer’s texts are a widely investigated field of sociology and media studies. It is less well known that Kracauer was a graduate architect, practised during World War I and was awarded his PhD after writing a thesis in 1915 in the field of architectural history. After the war, Kracauer published numerous critiques with a special focus on the architectural(...)
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December 2022
December 2022
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Kracauer's Architecture : The ornamental nature of the new capitalist order
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Siegfried Kracauer’s texts are a widely investigated field of sociology and media studies. It is less well known that Kracauer was a graduate architect, practised during World War I and was awarded his PhD after writing a thesis in 1915 in the field of architectural history. After the war, Kracauer published numerous critiques with a special focus on the architectural developments of the time. They document an interest in architectural phenomena ranging from a reflection on his own experiences to a general perspective on the subjectivity of the modern architect, as well as more universal social phenomena. In essence, this essay claims that the lack of ornamentation in modern architecture can be grasped as an ornamental concept of the new social order of capitalism.
Kracauer's Architecture : The ornamental nature of the new capitalist order
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Siegfried Kracauer’s texts are a widely investigated field of sociology and media studies. It is less well known that Kracauer was a graduate architect, practised during World War I and was awarded his PhD after writing a thesis in 1915 in the field of architectural history. After the war, Kracauer published numerous critiques with a special focus on the architectural developments of the time. They document an interest in architectural phenomena ranging from a reflection on his own experiences to a general perspective on the subjectivity of the modern architect, as well as more universal social phenomena. In essence, this essay claims that the lack of ornamentation in modern architecture can be grasped as an ornamental concept of the new social order of capitalism.
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In the first half of the 20th century, when architecture and literature dreamed of transparency, glass was the material these dreams were made of. However, the historiography of both fields usually focuses on a few canonical works by male authors to tell the story of this shared fascination. Departing from this imbalance, this essay takes the opportunity to explore the(...)
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In the first half of the 20th century, when architecture and literature dreamed of transparency, glass was the material these dreams were made of. However, the historiography of both fields usually focuses on a few canonical works by male authors to tell the story of this shared fascination. Departing from this imbalance, this essay takes the opportunity to explore the(...)
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December 2023
December 2023
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Glass scenographies. Notes on spaces of one’s own
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In the first half of the 20th century, when architecture and literature dreamed of transparency, glass was the material these dreams were made of. However, the historiography of both fields usually focuses on a few canonical works by male authors to tell the story of this shared fascination. Departing from this imbalance, this essay takes the opportunity to explore the glass culture of modernity through the lens of female projects whose stories often take place simultaneously on different continents. While the former silent film actress Evelyn Word Leigh builds a glass house for herself in Nyack, New York, artists and writers based in Europe – like Claude Cahun, Anaïs Nin, and Hilda ‘H.D.’ Doolittle – flesh out imaginary glass domes as construction sites of artistic subjectivities. Whether homes or domes, these creative women used glass environments to question and renegotiate their assigned places in Western societies, challenging the boundaries of female agency.
Glass scenographies. Notes on spaces of one’s own
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In the first half of the 20th century, when architecture and literature dreamed of transparency, glass was the material these dreams were made of. However, the historiography of both fields usually focuses on a few canonical works by male authors to tell the story of this shared fascination. Departing from this imbalance, this essay takes the opportunity to explore the glass culture of modernity through the lens of female projects whose stories often take place simultaneously on different continents. While the former silent film actress Evelyn Word Leigh builds a glass house for herself in Nyack, New York, artists and writers based in Europe – like Claude Cahun, Anaïs Nin, and Hilda ‘H.D.’ Doolittle – flesh out imaginary glass domes as construction sites of artistic subjectivities. Whether homes or domes, these creative women used glass environments to question and renegotiate their assigned places in Western societies, challenging the boundaries of female agency.
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The modern Moravian Church is notable as an independent religious movement that for over two centuries developed a highly interconnected global network of settlements and mission stations. By 1800, close to 20 carefully planned Moravian communities had been established on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the CCSA Topics series, ‘A Complicated Organism’ examines(...)
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The modern Moravian Church is notable as an independent religious movement that for over two centuries developed a highly interconnected global network of settlements and mission stations. By 1800, close to 20 carefully planned Moravian communities had been established on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the CCSA Topics series, ‘A Complicated Organism’ examines(...)
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December 2024
December 2024
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A complicated organism. The architecture of the global Moravian network 1722–1922
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The modern Moravian Church is notable as an independent religious movement that for over two centuries developed a highly interconnected global network of settlements and mission stations. By 1800, close to 20 carefully planned Moravian communities had been established on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the CCSA Topics series, ‘A Complicated Organism’ examines the role of architecture and spatial thinking in enabling the modern Moravians to perform their unique brand of organisational governance, aimed at establishing similar conditions in diverse environments scattered across an increasingly connected world.
A complicated organism. The architecture of the global Moravian network 1722–1922
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The modern Moravian Church is notable as an independent religious movement that for over two centuries developed a highly interconnected global network of settlements and mission stations. By 1800, close to 20 carefully planned Moravian communities had been established on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the CCSA Topics series, ‘A Complicated Organism’ examines the role of architecture and spatial thinking in enabling the modern Moravians to perform their unique brand of organisational governance, aimed at establishing similar conditions in diverse environments scattered across an increasingly connected world.
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The 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis led to the closure of the Tate Britain restaurant in London, which had advertised its 55-foot-long racist mural from the 1920s as "the most amusing room in Europe" Suddenly it was obvious. Flooded by Mail introduces strategies of antihegemonic amateur collecting and examines why the killing of a Black man by U.S. police in(...)
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The 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis led to the closure of the Tate Britain restaurant in London, which had advertised its 55-foot-long racist mural from the 1920s as "the most amusing room in Europe" Suddenly it was obvious. Flooded by Mail introduces strategies of antihegemonic amateur collecting and examines why the killing of a Black man by U.S. police in(...)
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December 2025
December 2025
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Flooded by mail: How George Floyd (remember?) landed at the Tate
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The 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis led to the closure of the Tate Britain restaurant in London, which had advertised its 55-foot-long racist mural from the 1920s as "the most amusing room in Europe" Suddenly it was obvious. Flooded by Mail introduces strategies of antihegemonic amateur collecting and examines why the killing of a Black man by U.S. police in public implicates us in Europe. A number of objects found online are useful for this task: the trial minting of a coin commemorating the collapse of the Cologne City Archive that never entered circulation, a board game from a 1932 German film, stock photos and generic copperplate engravings from the same family over centuries, Köllnflocken trading cards, postcards from a wall in Morocco, a procession in Cologne and a possessed harbor in Spain, and a 1970s conceptualist installation with postcards of rough seas along the British coast.
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The 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis led to the closure of the Tate Britain restaurant in London, which had advertised its 55-foot-long racist mural from the 1920s as "the most amusing room in Europe" Suddenly it was obvious. Flooded by Mail introduces strategies of antihegemonic amateur collecting and examines why the killing of a Black man by U.S. police in public implicates us in Europe. A number of objects found online are useful for this task: the trial minting of a coin commemorating the collapse of the Cologne City Archive that never entered circulation, a board game from a 1932 German film, stock photos and generic copperplate engravings from the same family over centuries, Köllnflocken trading cards, postcards from a wall in Morocco, a procession in Cologne and a possessed harbor in Spain, and a 1970s conceptualist installation with postcards of rough seas along the British coast.
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December 2025
December 2025
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Saint-Pierre-des-Corps : Cité des temps industriels : architecture et urbanisme, XIXe-XXI siècle
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps : Cité des temps industriels : architecture et urbanisme, XIXe-XXI siècle
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Saint-Pierre-des-Corps apparaît comme une ville de passage, tapie entre la Loire et le Cher, irriguée par le chemin de fer, démarquée de Tours par une autoroute. Née avec l’industrie, la cité ne compte qu’un monument historique: une locomotive à vapeur, la Pacific Chapelon 231 E 41. La ville des ouvriers et des cheminots recèle pourtant bien d’autres trésors industriels,(...)
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Saint-Pierre-des-Corps apparaît comme une ville de passage, tapie entre la Loire et le Cher, irriguée par le chemin de fer, démarquée de Tours par une autoroute. Née avec l’industrie, la cité ne compte qu’un monument historique: une locomotive à vapeur, la Pacific Chapelon 231 E 41. La ville des ouvriers et des cheminots recèle pourtant bien d’autres trésors industriels,(...)
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Saint-Pierre-des-Corps : Cité des temps industriels : architecture et urbanisme, XIXe-XXI siècle
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Saint-Pierre-des-Corps apparaît comme une ville de passage, tapie entre la Loire et le Cher, irriguée par le chemin de fer, démarquée de Tours par une autoroute. Née avec l’industrie, la cité ne compte qu’un monument historique: une locomotive à vapeur, la Pacific Chapelon 231 E 41. La ville des ouvriers et des cheminots recèle pourtant bien d’autres trésors industriels, comme l’usine Doubinski ou l’immense nef de béton armé de l’ancien Magasin général de la SNCF. C’est aussi une ville de mémoire. Détruite lors des deux guerres, elle a été reconstruite par des architectes sensibles et cultivés comme Jean-Marie Hardion, Emile Labadie, puis Jean Dorian qui ont recréé un habitat peu dense, semé de squares et de jardins. Derrière la ville moderne perdurent les puits, les maraîchages de jadis et les rottes, ces chemins furtifs mènent à des jardins cachés. Saint-Pierre-des-Corps est aussi un espace de création.
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps : Cité des temps industriels : architecture et urbanisme, XIXe-XXI siècle
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Saint-Pierre-des-Corps apparaît comme une ville de passage, tapie entre la Loire et le Cher, irriguée par le chemin de fer, démarquée de Tours par une autoroute. Née avec l’industrie, la cité ne compte qu’un monument historique: une locomotive à vapeur, la Pacific Chapelon 231 E 41. La ville des ouvriers et des cheminots recèle pourtant bien d’autres trésors industriels, comme l’usine Doubinski ou l’immense nef de béton armé de l’ancien Magasin général de la SNCF. C’est aussi une ville de mémoire. Détruite lors des deux guerres, elle a été reconstruite par des architectes sensibles et cultivés comme Jean-Marie Hardion, Emile Labadie, puis Jean Dorian qui ont recréé un habitat peu dense, semé de squares et de jardins. Derrière la ville moderne perdurent les puits, les maraîchages de jadis et les rottes, ces chemins furtifs mènent à des jardins cachés. Saint-Pierre-des-Corps est aussi un espace de création.
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During US colonial rule in the Philippines, reinforced concrete was used to the near exclusion of all other building materials. In Concrete Colonialism , Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the motivations for and lasting effects of this forgotten colonial policy. Arguing that the pervasive use of reinforced concrete technologies revolutionized techniques of imperial(...)
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During US colonial rule in the Philippines, reinforced concrete was used to the near exclusion of all other building materials. In Concrete Colonialism , Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the motivations for and lasting effects of this forgotten colonial policy. Arguing that the pervasive use of reinforced concrete technologies revolutionized techniques of imperial(...)
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Concrete colonialism: Architecture, urbanism, and the US imperial project in the Philippines
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During US colonial rule in the Philippines, reinforced concrete was used to the near exclusion of all other building materials. In Concrete Colonialism , Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the motivations for and lasting effects of this forgotten colonial policy. Arguing that the pervasive use of reinforced concrete technologies revolutionized techniques of imperial conquest, Martinez shows how concrete reshaped colonialism as a project that sought durable change through the reformation of environments, colonial society, and racialized biologies. Martinez locates the origins of this material revolution in the development of Chicago, highlighting how building this urban center atop exceptionally challenging geology made it possible to transform diverse global ecologies. She details how the material's stability, plasticity, strength, and other qualities served the shifting imperatives of the US colonial regime, playing a central role in defending territory, controlling disease, and constructing monuments to nation and empire. By describing a world irreversibly remade, Martinez urges readers to consider how colonialism persists--in concrete forms--despite claims of its conclusion.
Concrete colonialism: Architecture, urbanism, and the US imperial project in the Philippines
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During US colonial rule in the Philippines, reinforced concrete was used to the near exclusion of all other building materials. In Concrete Colonialism , Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the motivations for and lasting effects of this forgotten colonial policy. Arguing that the pervasive use of reinforced concrete technologies revolutionized techniques of imperial conquest, Martinez shows how concrete reshaped colonialism as a project that sought durable change through the reformation of environments, colonial society, and racialized biologies. Martinez locates the origins of this material revolution in the development of Chicago, highlighting how building this urban center atop exceptionally challenging geology made it possible to transform diverse global ecologies. She details how the material's stability, plasticity, strength, and other qualities served the shifting imperatives of the US colonial regime, playing a central role in defending territory, controlling disease, and constructing monuments to nation and empire. By describing a world irreversibly remade, Martinez urges readers to consider how colonialism persists--in concrete forms--despite claims of its conclusion.
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October 2025
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''Medium Hot'' is the essential handbook for our present conjuncture, exploring the limits of art and technology. Hito Steyerl argues that these practices cannot be divorced from economic and political conditions. In an era of supercharged change, she examines the way machine learning infiltrates every aspect of our lives and what that means for the future.
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''Medium Hot'' is the essential handbook for our present conjuncture, exploring the limits of art and technology. Hito Steyerl argues that these practices cannot be divorced from economic and political conditions. In an era of supercharged change, she examines the way machine learning infiltrates every aspect of our lives and what that means for the future.
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Medium hot: Images in the Age of Heat
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''Medium Hot'' is the essential handbook for our present conjuncture, exploring the limits of art and technology. Hito Steyerl argues that these practices cannot be divorced from economic and political conditions. In an era of supercharged change, she examines the way machine learning infiltrates every aspect of our lives and what that means for the future.
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''Medium Hot'' is the essential handbook for our present conjuncture, exploring the limits of art and technology. Hito Steyerl argues that these practices cannot be divorced from economic and political conditions. In an era of supercharged change, she examines the way machine learning infiltrates every aspect of our lives and what that means for the future.
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June 2026
June 2026
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Architecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is crumbling, their methods no longer tenable. In a highly critical introspection, architect and writer Reinier de Graaf explores the tough choices ahead and the course of action that must follow. ''Architecture Against Architecture'' demands we rethink both how and why we build. With wit and(...)
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Architecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is crumbling, their methods no longer tenable. In a highly critical introspection, architect and writer Reinier de Graaf explores the tough choices ahead and the course of action that must follow. ''Architecture Against Architecture'' demands we rethink both how and why we build. With wit and(...)
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Architecture against architecture: A manifesto
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Architecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is crumbling, their methods no longer tenable. In a highly critical introspection, architect and writer Reinier de Graaf explores the tough choices ahead and the course of action that must follow. ''Architecture Against Architecture'' demands we rethink both how and why we build. With wit and insight, De Graaf lays out the future of the profession, challenging readers to question the fundamental assumptions of the discipline. How do we end the feudal veneration of starchitects? When will architects finally recognize that it is in their own best interest to unionize? Why aren’t more practices collectively owned? Why do so many architects over sixty-seven refuse to retire? How do we stop buildings from being copy-righted? What will remain of architecture after AI? What can prevent iconic structures from being embroiled in money laundering? And the vital question: What projects should architects refuse on moral grounds?
Architecture against architecture: A manifesto
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Architecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is crumbling, their methods no longer tenable. In a highly critical introspection, architect and writer Reinier de Graaf explores the tough choices ahead and the course of action that must follow. ''Architecture Against Architecture'' demands we rethink both how and why we build. With wit and insight, De Graaf lays out the future of the profession, challenging readers to question the fundamental assumptions of the discipline. How do we end the feudal veneration of starchitects? When will architects finally recognize that it is in their own best interest to unionize? Why aren’t more practices collectively owned? Why do so many architects over sixty-seven refuse to retire? How do we stop buildings from being copy-righted? What will remain of architecture after AI? What can prevent iconic structures from being embroiled in money laundering? And the vital question: What projects should architects refuse on moral grounds?
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March 2026
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