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.
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A field guide to surviving the future of architecture
We live in challenging times. There is overwhelming evidence that massive change is required in order to survive impending environmental collapse. Yet this fifth volume in the Archifutures series takes the position that the “apocalypse” is not an imminent event, but an insidious process that is already happening. Communities everywhere are facing it on a day-to-day basis. Many are already resisting and adapting. Despite the implied drama of the word “apocalypse”, the reality is actually far more mundane: surviving it is not about building bunkers, it is about building resilience – everywhere and in all kinds of ways.
Contributors include: Bora Baboci, Maite Borjabad, Tomasz Broma, Trajna Collective, DOMA, Matthew Dalziel, Stefan Gruber, Tinatin Gurgenidze, Jason Hilgefort, Srecko Horvat, METASITU, Anh-Linh Ngo, Phi, Martin Pohl, RESOLVE, Skrei, Anastassia Smirnova, Space Transcribers, Maria Smith, TAB Collective, Tania Tovar Torres, Stephan Trüby and the Unfolding Pavilion.
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Archifutures Vol.5: Apocalypse, 216 pages, full color, 17 x 23 cm, ISBN: 978-84-949388-1-8
Introduction
Apocalypse
No Future = No Architecture
Using architecture theory to think about our common future
Idles
Apocalyptic observations on spatial belonging
Manufacturing Solitude
The revelation of loneliness reframed
Architecture vs. Politics
A critique of political agendas with architectural elements
Scenographies of Power
From the state of exception to the spaces of exception
Children Know
Future architecture from future architects
The Architect as Mediator
Two ways of designing dialogues with European residential communities
Symbiocene
Working with weeds
What is a School if not a Promise?
Radical hope at the Floating University
Commoning with a small c
On the benefits of agreeing to disagree
If These Walls Could Talk
Deconstructing architectures of separation
Safe Spaces
Exposing right-wing spaces
The Political Church
Heritage as a tool for engagement
Buildings Are Not Enough
Adaptions beyond mere survival
Growing Realisations
Architecture and post-capitalism
Air Revert
An architectural toolkit for mitigating indoor pollution
Institute for Autonomous Urbanism
Hacking infrastructure in Shenzhen
S’lowtecture
Concept for a modular, algorithmic housing structure
Power to the Peer
A conversation about the distribution of energy and housing via blockchain-based platforms
The Open Bookshelf
An open space for unique Compilations made by critical readers and for new editorial initiatives.
A field guide to the future of architecture
How can you navigate towards something when there are no fixed points when you cannot determine your position? How do you know where to go, or even know when you have got there? This fourth volume in the Archifutures series investigates how architecture, traditionally considered to be a future-oriented activity, can best respond as we find ourselves on the threshold of a “post-futurist” condition where the future is not necessarily ahead of us, but everywhere and – perhaps most especially – “now”.
Contributors include: Nora Akawi, Florian Bengert, Filipe Estrela, Mariabruna Fabrizi, Nikita Gyawali, Ana Jeinić, Holly Lewis, Fosco Lucarelli, Brett Moore, Sara Neves, Paolo Patelli, Pedro Pitarch, Blanca Pujals, Benedikt Stoll, James Taylor-Foster, John Thackara and Andreas Töpfer.
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Archifutures Vol.4: Thresholds, 210 pages, full color, 17 x 23 cm, ISBN: 978-84-947523-3-9
Introduction
Thresholds
In The Prison of the Present
A short guide to post-futurist design strategies
Domains of Influence
A discussion about data, archives, taxonomy, context and credit
Borders Reassigned
The value of architectural tools for redrawing territorial complexity
Humid Europe
The fluidity of the nation state
No Man’s Land
Rethinking the border condition
Whose Europe?
On the construction of symbols, architectural and immaterial, and the post-national condition
In a World of Endless Need
Why do architects think they have anything to offer that can help the plight of refugees globally?
Permanent Temporality of Refugee Camps
Architectural expectations and dilemmas in humanitarian urban spaces
Roots in Exile
A temporary settlement for refugees from the Syrian war
Modulor’s Bastard Children
Inhabitants challenging the modernist straightjacket
Bodily Cartographies
Pathologising the body and the city
You Can’t Have One Without the Others
The future of designing for the urban environment
Back To The Land 2.0
A robust design agenda for bioregions
Archipelago Lab
An atlas of metropolitan islands for Madrid
Space in Time
The future of logistic landscapes
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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
Introduction
The Site
No Future
Architectural practice for the living present
Common Places
Plan Común’s public greenhouse for Graz
The Ingot
A housing solution worth its weight in gold
A Self-Constructed Paradigm
Housing that is about more than just houses
Biosynthetic Futures
Speculating on designing nature and design as nature
Behind the Front
Rethinking urban waterways beyond pretty views and high prices
Weaponized Architecture
Deconstructing the logic of architectural violence
Intimate Infrastructures
A social and spatial strategy for high‑density design at a human scale
Ruinflatables
Repurposing municipal ruins with residential bubbles
Being Guerilla Architects
Hacking the city and reclaiming social spaces
Adapting Tradition for the Future
Fostering sustainability and a local sense of ownership
Telling Tales
Storytelling as architectural representation
Walk & Hórreo
Remote farm buildings as new economic drivers
The Bigger Picture
Socially-informed urban transformation
Zip City
Houseless not homeless
Latest contribution from Volume 3
Adapting Tradition for the Future
Fostering sustainability and a local sense of ownership
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
Latest contribution from Volume 2
Occupy Facebook!
New spaces for architecture criticism
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