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.
Over a period of five months, April until August 2017, text contributions from the first three Archifutures volumes will become available online on a weekly basis.
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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.
Explore and read online selected contents or name your price and get the complete book in digital format.
Printed book in selected bookshops.
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
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.
Explore and read online selected contents or name your price and get the complete book in digital format.
Printed book in selected bookshops.
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
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
A prescription for contemporary architecture
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.
Explore and read online selected contents or name your price and get the complete book in digital format.
Printed book in selected bookshops.
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