"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

Aa Vv – Architects After Architecture: Alternative Pathways for Practice

Architects After Architecture: Alternative Pathways for Practice
A cura di Harriet Harriss, Rory Hyde e Roberta Marcaccio
ed: Routledge

Al contrario di altri libri sulla “trasformazione digitale”, questo è disponibile anche in formato Kindle, quindi direi che iniziamo con il piede giusto.
Il libro contiene contributi e interviste da oltre quaranta fonti, tra cui Peter Barber, architetto, Matt Storus, che opera nell’ambito delle criptovalute, Chris Hildrey, designer di servizi, Shelley Penn, urbanista.

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.

Un libro insomma che prova a rispondere ad una domanda particolarmente pressante, in un Paese dove c’è un architetto ogni sette persone.

Indice:

  • 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, Office for Political Innovation
  • 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-ORGANISER. 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
  • DEPROFESSIONALISATION. 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 CURRENCY’. 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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