Archifutures is the publishing project that accompanies the activities of the Future Architecture platform, a multi volume field guide to the future of architecture.

Archifutures merges the possibilities of critical editorial, innovative printing, and active user intervention. The collection maps contemporary architectural practice and urban planning, presented through the words and ideas of some of its key players and change-makers. From institutions, activists, thinkers, curators and architects to urban bloggers, polemicists, critics and publishers, Archifutures presents the people shaping tomorrow’s architecture and cities – and thereby helping to shape our societies of the future as well.

Edited by &beyond and published by dpr-barcelona.

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Volume 1: The Museum

A field guide to communicating the future of architecture

The first volume of the collection maps the work of the institutions and organisations involved in communicating the new and innovative thought and practice leading architecture today, highlighting the strategies they use and programmes they run to support this.

Essays and interviews from the Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, the Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, CANactions, Kiev, Prishtina Architecture Week, Kosovo, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and others give working examples of the roles that these organisations and institutions play in communication and education for those both within and beyond the field of architecture.

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Archifutures Vol.1: The Museum, 208 pages, full color, 17 x 23 cm, ISBN: 978-84-944873-6-1

Introduction

The Museum

Think Future

Introducing the Future Architecture platform

Learning by Doing

On reaching the public and learning from mistakes

Crossing the Threshold

Taking the museum out of the building and into the street

Towards Collective Utopias

The Oris lecture series in Zagreb

An Open Interface

Institution evolution in Graz

Beyond the Biennial Bubble

Three festivals, three approaches

Those Who Can

Pedagogic vision meets interdisciplinary strategy and tactics

Hyper-supersurface

A collage conversation between Cristiano Toraldo di Francia & Guillermo López

True to Form

On shaping the architectural debate

Week by Week

The challenges of inclusivity

Data Mining and Designing Solutions

Rethinking problem solving

The Alchemy of the Wor(l)d

Some ideas about plausible futures in architecture publishing

Volume 2: The Studio

A field guide to speculating upon the future of architecture

If you want to change the world, you need to start with great ideas. This volume focus in particular is on the cutting-edge thinking and wider theoretical questions and themes that underpin the series, from reflections upon what our ideas of “future” really mean to the changing role of the architecture profession as a whole. Comprising speculative visions, essays and texts, this volume serves as a theoretical backdrop for the practical approaches seen in Volume 3: The Site.

This volume comprises speculative visions, essays and texts from contributors including: Ana Jeinić, Miloš Kosec, Clément Blanchet, Amateur Cities, Liam Young, Something Fantastic, Merve Bedir, Tomaž Pipan, Davide Tommaso Ferrando, Tiago Torres-Campos and Reinier de Graaf.

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Archifutures Vol.2: The Studio, 197 pages, full color, 17 x 23 cm, ISBN: 978-84-944873-7-8

Introduction

The Studio

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Architecture after the future

The Century that Never Happened

Was modernism just a glitch?

Matters of Debate

A platform for collective intelligence on city-making

Landscapes of the Anthropocene

Encounters in more-than-human worlds

Ruincarnations

The potential of ruins or the ruin of potential?

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger

A prescription for contemporary architecture

Architecture of Commons

How citizen-led action in Turkey reclaimed the notion of common(s)

Reactivating the City

The case for reshoring production culture

Occupy Facebook!

New spaces for architecture criticism

It Will Be…

Architecture hence will be something fantastic

What Am I A Citizen Of?

The speculative futures of architect Liam Young

Volume 3: The Site

A field guide to making the future of architecture

This volume is a call to practical action leading on from the theoretical approaches seen in Volume 2: The Studio. It presents a further selection from the Future Architecture platform call for ideas, and focuses firmly on the nitty-gritty of practice with projects and strategies that are on-site or site ready to shake up that future. These are the inspirational solutions and ideas, which could soon be transforming the landscape of architecture and our cities, reasserting the agency of what architecture in its widest sense can offer and mean.

Contributors include: Aleksandra Zarek; Andrej Strehovec; Plan Común; Esen Gökçe Özdamar and Murat Ateş; Guerilla Architects; Ignacio Gias; Jack Self; Jan Glasmeier, a.gor.a architects; Jana Čulek; Lavinia Scaletti; Léopold Lambert; Linnea Våglund and Leo Fidjeland; Manon Mollard; Urbz; Natasha Reid; Sara Neves and Felipe Estrela.

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Archifutures Vol.3: The Site, 210 pages, full color, 17 x 23 cm, ISBN: 978-84-944873-8-5