What can you do with a degree in architecture? Where might it take you? What kind of challenges could you address? Architects After Architecture reframes architecture as a uniquely versatile way of acting on the world, far beyond that of designing buildings.
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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INTRODUCTION 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 Andrés 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
HARRIET HARRISS is an architect and dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in New York. Her teaching, research, and writing focus upon pioneering new and inclusive pedagogical models for design education. 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).
