Architecture typically overlooks the presence of animals and the role design plays in domestication. Domestication makes settled human societies possible through the shared burden of labor with animals. The farms, laboratories, “pet-friendly” offices and homes in which animals work are places where humans work too. This article explores one interspecies workplace: a pet-food research facility employing

This article develops a theory of the multitude for architecture. It is a close-reading of political theorist Paolo Virno’s concept of the multitude and its associated categories of language, repet...

In 1973, Andrea Branzi, founder of Archizoom, wrote a short review of Ivan Illich’s book Deschooling Society. The review constituted the fourth of 27 “Radical Notes” he published in the journal Cas...

This essay examines two Norwegian cultural icons: the Lutheran priest and poet, Petter Dass (1647–1707) and the writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859–195...

This paper explores how the architectural exhibition “Tanahku Indonesia” used architectural materiality to represent the cultural diversity of Indonesia. The exhibition reframed the idea of materia...

This article discusses the collaborative processes behind the redevelopment of the Dutch state heritage ship wharf NDSM in Amsterdam as a case of urban commoning that took place around the year 2000 – before the term became commonly used in urban studies. It explores how the former shipwharf was transformed into an “incubator”: a creative hub with artist studios, theater spaces, a skate park and other

As with many Indigenous cultures, the Māori connection to the land in Aotearoa New Zealand has been weakened by colonization, urbanization and other factors. In particular, Māori youth in their pro...

George Baird’s “Les Extremes Qui se Touchent?” was published in 1977 in the Architectural Design special issue on the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). It was republished as “Les Extremes...

This paper is concerned with the planning of the New School of the Anthropocene, an experimental Arts and Humanities college between Cambridge and London. It discusses the ethos of its radical part...

This essay looks back upon Orhan Pamuk’s nonfiction book, Istanbul: Memories of a City (2003), and unpacks its multi-layered representation of the city as landscape. It is here that Pamuk pursues m...

This article accompanies a visual essay that re-views Georges Perec’s 1974 book Species of Spaces through a series of collages inspired by its most important chapters related to architecture and ci...

Para-architecture as a method of design exploits the creative potential within interdisciplinary practices such as philosophy, sculpture, cartoons, as a supplement to conventional design methodolog...

This paper seeks to reveal how the concept of childhood creativity was woven into the fabric of architectural discourse in the mid twentieth century. It focuses on the architect-educator Paul Ritte...

This paper combines two reports: the first on the building of the Architectural Faculty at the Technical University in Berlin, and the second, on the HafenCity University in Hamburg. An account of ...

Universities across the world are increasingly dependent on substantial gifts from the super-rich and their charitable foundations for capital development. The “golden age of philanthropy” compels academic managers to become campaigners and supplicants and rewards those whose research appeals to the philanthropic marketplace. Philanthropy thereby shapes the organization, activities and behavior of

The review in its multiplicity of forms and directions can be said to underpin architecture, and is crucial for its dissemination. From the perspective of a writer in and of architecture, the revie...

When Mike Davis published City of Quartz in 1990, his work was widely praised by many and dismissed as liberalist hysteria by others. The reflections it contains on architectural design as a reflec...

AbstractThis visual essay is structured as a sequence of imagetexts, which through the bringing together of images and words opens up insights into the Danish landscape Farum Midtpunkt. This we arg...

While acknowledging the city as a site of disciplinary and technological disruption, this paper introduces Bratton’s stack theory as a way to understand smart cities more generally, and Waterfront ...

Cities have always been arenas wherein social, ethnic and cultural differences lead to social friction. People from various cultures meet in spatial interfaces and this interaction, besides intensi...

With the continuous assertion of Eindhoven as a center of innovation, technology and, more specifically, smart systems, the proliferation of “smartness” across the city’s built environment continue...

This paper investigates a gap in the relationship between the physical city and current “smart city” solutions in the context of rapidly developing urban regions. In particular it reconsiders these...

This article examines data, algorithms and machine learning as the new materials that make cities smart. Analyzing the threat of relying on digital tools made by corporations to govern and regulate...

AbstractSonic inclusion – the ways in which sound includes people in space – has received little attention in the design of the built environment. It is proposed that the design and management of c...

AbstractThe growing emphasis on citizens and private and public stakeholders within smart cities demands approaches where these actors are seen as participants in the decision-making process with t...

This article studies local enactments of “smart” in and through visions of six smart district development projects. We show that smart cities’ framings of the future are inevitably diverse, emergin...

The New York City Subway is unusually fertile ground for transportation intelligence. It possesses a complex track network that allows trains to move along multiple overlapping routes, producing ra...

In their book Reinventing the Automobile, William Mitchell, Chris Borroni-Bird, and Larry Burns unravel a fascinating vision for technologically driven, shared, on-demand, mobility systems. Today, ...

It was only recently when our urban sidewalks in front of Department stores were inlaid with terrazzo and the urban space was a site to capture the fantasy of an onlooker who is mesmerized into ano...

AbstractWhile increasingly the world around us is becoming “smart” – from smart phones to smart meters – in no other field of human endeavor has the allure of the “smart” paradigm been as forcefull...

Abstract This photo essay presents a posthumous consideration of the work of Shaun Bloodworth, photographer of musicians from the UK underground dance scene in the early twenty-first century. The article argues that Bloodworth sets up in his portraits a connection between figure and background that involves the same re-territorialization of the urban landscape that occurred in the dance scene itself

Abstract This paper revisits the “Metro/Education” project, an unrealized proposal for turning the underused spaces connected to Montreal’s underground metro system into a learning environment. Developed by architects Michel Lincourt and Harry Parnass in 1970, Metro/Education offered an alternative response to the campus plans for the newly created Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). The project

Abstract In January 1955, Architectural Design magazine published its first full-page article on New Brutalism. The article, coauthored by Alison and Peter Smithson and Theo Crosby, asserted that the movement could be attributed to a number of sources: a reevaluation of certain Modernist buildings of the 1920s and 30s, an interest in the work of the architectural historian Rudolf Wittkower, and a respect

Abstract Focusing on the small state of Sealand, a platform built off the English Essex coast to carry anti-aircraft guns during the Second World War, this article posits the North Sea as a particular geopolitical condition based on its status as a “state of exception.” The article formulates its reading by considering the architectural legacy of the pirates, privateers and hackers who have been the

Abstract This essay uses a physical modeling technique from mechanical engineering, the filling box, as a speculative architectural design tool. In the filling box, dyed salt water is injected into acrylic models submerged within a tank of fresh water, simulating the introduction of cold air into a warm environment or, when mirrored, the introduction of warm air into a cooler environment. The models

Abstract Focusing on the architecture of Church Missionary Society (CMS) hospitals in Isfahan and Kerman (Iran), this article contemplates the issue of gaining the trust of local communities. The issue of gaining trust was frequently discussed in written accounts of the CMS’s medical work as a prerequisite for introducing Christian beliefs. The article engages with emerging scholarship under the umbrella

Abstract In 1952, Alison and Peter Smithson designed their Soho House in central London. Published by their housemate Theo Crosby in Architectural Design magazine, the Smithsons claimed it as the first example of the “New Brutalism,” although it remained unbuilt. At the same time, Crosby designed for himself a small studio house at Strand-on-the-Green, West London that he built but which remains unpublished

This article presents part of the process leading to the large-scale three-dimensional drawing entitled Weaving Lines/Looming Narratives (2013), through a series of three images. The project engaged with questions of presence and representation in the drawing of architectural and urban spaces, considering the city as a kinetic rather than static condition. On this basis, the process described revisits

Abstract For his last architectural work, the Porta Pia, Michelangelo Buonarotti produced some extraordinary drawings, which this article proposes are the first in architecture’s history to embody the creative potentials of sketching. In them, many ideas coalesce in the same space, resulting in work that is sometimes difficult to decipher. The frequent ambiguity of the marks on the paper resulted in

Abstract This article examines parallel projection as spatial representation and considers its role in constructing the city image. It investigates the representation of materially intangible concepts, such as infinity, impossibility and irrationality, through a close study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century screen paintings of Kyoto called Rakuchu Rakugai zu. The tools of composition used in the

Abstract This essay examines two materials found on the walls of a British psychiatric hospital: shatter-proof glass and steel-reinforced concrete. Interested in their constitution through and of the institutional space, it explores these common building materials’ capacities to tolerate as well as to hold and contain. In doing so, the essay contemplates visually and textually where institutional space

Abstract The hypnotic repetition of passages between white containers in the refugee camp in Eleonas, in Athens, heightens the temporality experienced by the refugees in the camp – a sense of life in temporary suspension or perpetual deferment. Passage Variations uses seven images taken from a film that documents the passageways in the camp and their variation owed to human inhabitation. The stills

Architecture and Culture is published in both print and online formats. However you are reading or viewing this, whether as the beginning of an unfolding hardcopy or as a browsed or searched internet interlude, we offer this short editorial introduction to the issue entitled “Spaces of Tolerance” to set out its scope of content. Rather than following conventional editorial protocol of summarizing each

Abstract This article takes the Caritas building by De Vylder Vinck Taillieu (2016) as a foil to discuss tolerance from a number of perspectives, demonstrating the productive nature of the very notion of tolerance as a filter through which to understand a contemporary building with an innovative approach to professional conventions in both psychiatric care and architecture. The building, a pavilion

Abstract Architecture is a medium of tolerance. It is a space of negotiation which straddles and accommodates different material and social entities and tensions within urban development. The ongoing techno-material-social paradigm shift that started with the rise of neoliberalism in the 1980s and a growing “experience economy” is changing tolerance in architecture. Under neoliberalism, new technological

Abstract Crossovers seldom occur in academic research on social tolerance and post-war urban reconstruction. Social scientists often call for a deeper analysis of the impact of spatial context on intergroup tolerance thresholds, but repairing social relations alongside damaged buildings is rarely the focus of post-disaster resilience design. This article bridges these two areas of study by proposing

In 2015, I surveyed students, academics and architects. In one section I asked people to identify and define themselves. I allowed people space in which to comment. On the one hand, only four percent of 118 people who responded identified themselves as being from a workingclass background; and, on the other, this was the only question in the whole survey that four percent of respondents saw as inappropriate

Abstract This article explores the abstract space–time concept of ma through analysis and interpretation of Austrian artist Karl-Heinz Klopf’s film Tower House (2013). The film is based on an extraordinary house built in Tokyo in 1996 and designed by architect Takamitsu Azuma. Moving between film theory, Eastern mysticism, cognitive psychology, narrative theory, and the phenomenology and ontology of

With a view to publication we reformatted our project Trace as a picture essay. Here we argue that our research explores questions of architectural scholarship through the medium of the architectural design project. The theme of the project is the Bankside air raid shelter that has become somewhat lost in the recent history of the area. We began by structuring the field of inquiry as a dialogue between

Abstract This article tells the back story of a performance dedicated to bearing witness to a corner of a room in a 1990s’ New Zealand kitset home. The video meeting, you in detail performs a love poem that asks for forgiveness before demolishing the wall. The video tracks an interlude where the space of tolerance related to building construction meets open-mindedness, empathy and compassion. This

Abstract In order to consider how to negotiate the publication space of interdisciplinary research in architecture in academic journals, this essay reflects on the current forms of writing in architectural discourse, the history of a “critique militante” architectural (peer) review process within the academy, and the future possibilities of a feminist oriented process that seeks to accommodate otherness

Abstract Research around race, ethnicity and class is barely discernible in architecture. The Frontispiece and Endpiece collages in this issue draw attention to the issue of class.

AbstractJoan Littlewood’s Stratford Fair, a late manifestation of her Fun Palace idea, aimed – through community-led and temporary playgrounds – to reclaim public land compromised by local governme...

Abstract All parades are gatherings of curious collections, but the parades in the work of the architect-trained artist Saul Steinberg are like no others. In one particular drawing bearing the name of his childhood street, Steinberg intertwines two parades that bring forth recollections of his native Bucharest from the early decades of the twentieth century. Utilizing the focused lens of the festival

Abstract Re:connections is a series of artist-led events that took place on a regenerated housing estate in Birmingham, UK, in 2017, exploring how dialogical arts practice – the use of artist-led intervention to draw out conversation – might be used to understand more about people’s emotional connections to the places in which they live. The project provides an insight into the potential of such practices

Abstract This paper presents a case study the Estate Romana (Roman Summer), an initiative promoted between 1977 and 1985 by Rome’s city councilor for culture, Renato Nicolini. Starting from the alternative reuse of archaeological sites, decayed places and abandoned territories, through the interaction with cinema, dance, theatre and poetry performances, the events of the Estate Romana are elements

Abstract When the illustrated newspaper was “invented” in 1842, festivals soon became prime content for the young Illustrated London News. Presenting festivals from home and abroad, illustrated papers were full of images and descriptions of spectacle in motion – including spectacular architecture and people. What was the relationship between the crowd and the building, in word and image, and how did

The Polytope de Montreal, conceived by the architect and composer Iannis Xenakis, was the first in a series of five realized “polytopes,” large-scale multi-media installations performed in Canada, ...

Abstract This open-street event in Mouttalos, a residential neighborhood in the center of Paphos, Cyprus, used vacant open spaces for a series of festive activities, events and workshops. Inhabited by Turkish Cypriots until 1974, Mouttalos now provides a “temporary” place of residence for displaced Greek Cypriot refugees. The festival, held in 2017, aimed to generate interest in the underdeveloped

The theme of this issue of Architecture and Culture is “Architecture, Festival and the City.” Our aim has been to posit and to explore the relationship between festivals and their settings in order to ask what constitutes festival in the contemporary city. What allows a traditional festival to ensure? How can a new festival become meaningful? And what do we expect a festival to do? The papers originate