Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice presents a selection of essays, architectural experiments and works that explore the diversity within the fields of contemporary architectural practice and discourse. Specific in this selection is the question of how and why architecture can and should manifest in a critical and reflective capacity, as well as to examine how the discipline currently resonates with contemporary art practice. It does so by reflecting on the first 10 years of the architectural journal,
P.E.A.R. (2009 to 2019). The volume argues that the initial aims of the journal – to explore and celebrate the myriad forms through which architecture can exist – are now more relevant than ever to contemporary architectural discourse and practice.
Included in the volume are architectural practitioners, design researchers, artists, architectural theorists, historians, journalists, curators and a paleobiologist, all of whom contributed to the first seven issues of the journal. Here, they provide a unique presentation of architectural discourse and practice that seeks to test new ground while forming distinct relationships to recent, and more longstanding, historical legacies.
Praise for Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice
‘The story told by the authors of this work can thus be considered as the central tool of an architectural transgression.’
Critique d’art
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Matthew Butcher
Dwelling
۱٫ Place as a reflexive conversation with the situation
Ben Sweeting
۲٫ ‘The Grand Pear’ (Home): Mass housing for a mass of people
Edwin Burdis
۳٫ Undead and/or dead living: The new social category
Jonathan Griffin and Mateo Tannatt
۴٫ Yesilyurt
Karin Ruggaber in Conversation with Megan O’Shea
۵٫ A life of its own
Jane Rendell
۶٫ The Whitechapel Gift Shop
Torange Khonsari (public works) in conversation with Megan O’Shea
۷٫ Dwelling in the twenty-first century: ‘The Professor’s Study’
Neil Spiller
Study, Sample and Synthesis
۸٫ Horizon remix: A ‘crisis’ in the architectural image – representations of Lacaton & Vassal’s ‘double space’
Robin Wilson
۹٫ A conversation with Le Corbusier
The Klassnik Corporation
۱۰٫ Architectures of slowness: Actioning historical loops and repetitions
Matthew Butcher
۱۱٫ A (drawn) practice(d) construction: Relational structuring, chased
Perry Kulper
۱۲٫ Open score architecture
Yeoryia Manolopoulou
۱۳٫ Saved from the wrecking ball on a daily basis: Participation in design conversation and everyday experience
Tom Coward/AOC
Landscape and Ecology
۱۴٫ Writtle Calling/2EmmaToc: A radio station for Essex
Melissa Appleton
۱۵٫ The fossilization of architecture in the Anthropocene
Jan Zalasiewicz
۱۶٫ Architecture in the dark
Jonathan Hill
۱۷٫ Seoul City Machine
Liam Young
۱۸٫ On the enclosures of time
Jes Fernie and Marjolijn Dijkman
۱۹٫ ‘The Topiary Garden of Houldsworth Terrace’
Flea Folly Architects
۲۰٫ Mallory’s ascent: Engaging the space of death through architectural drawing
Stasus – James Craig and Matthew Ozga-Lawn
Meaning in Material
۲۱٫ Forget material
Adrian Forty
۲۲٫ ‘MeMeMeMe Totem’
Adam Nathaniel Furman
۲۳٫ Digital doubles, colliding in mid-air Prototyping a postdramatic scenography
Bob Sheil and Thomas Pearce
۲۴٫ The discrete turn: A reconsideration of architecture’s ontology
Mollie Claypool
۲۵٫ Choreographing curatorial conversations
Kate Goodwin
۲۶٫ Shelf life
Guan Lee
Index
