Intimate Infrastructures
A social and spatial strategy for high‑density design at a human scale
By Natasha Reid
Contents
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What Am I A Citizen Of?
The speculative futures of architect Liam Young
Interview with Liam Young by Shumi Bose
Whose Europe?
On the construction of symbols, architectural and immaterial, and the post-national condition
A dialogue between Paolo Patelli and Benedikt Stoll
Hyper-supersurface
A collage conversation between Cristiano Toraldo di Francia & Guillermo López
Text by César Reyes Nájera
In a World of Endless Need
Why do architects think they have anything to offer that can help the plight of refugees globally?
By Brett Moore
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
A prescription for contemporary architecture
By Clément Blanchet
Borders Reassigned
The value of architectural tools for redrawing territorial complexity
By Nora Akawi
Architecture vs. Politics
A critique of political agendas with architectural elements
By TAB Collective
No Future = No Architecture
Using architecture theory to think about our common future
By Srećko Horvat
Illustrations by Janar Siniloo
You Can’t Have One Without the Others
The future of designing for the urban environment
Interview with Filipe Estrela and Sara Neves, Ilirjana Haxhiaj and Jeta Bejtullahu, Holly Lewis and Oliver Goodhall
By Fiona Shipwright
An Anticipatory Theory of Ruin Ecology
Building for the new natives of an altered nature
By Jason Rhys Parry
Power to the Peer
A conversation about the distribution of energy and housing via blockchain-based platforms
Interview with DOMA (Maksym Rokmaniko and Francesco Sebregondi) and Phi (Aliaksandra Smirnova)
By George Kafka and Fiona Shipwright
Those Who Can
Pedagogic vision meets interdisciplinary strategy and tactics
Interview with Urs Thomann and Vladyslav Tyminskyi by Rob Wilson
Learning by Doing
On reaching the public and learning from mistakes
Interview with Michał Duda by Nick Axel
A Smart Covenant
A new legal construct for collective land value infrastructure
By Dark Matter Labs and Center for Spatial Technologies
Drowned in the Neretva River
Letters to a river transformed by war
By Jonas Langbein, Armina Pilav and Damir Uglijen, Un-war space lab
Children Know
Future architecture from future architects
By Architectural Thinking School for Children
Biosynthetic Futures
Speculating on designing nature and design as nature
By Linnea Våglund & Leo Fidjeland
The Architect as Mediator
Two ways of designing dialogues with European residential communities
A conversation between the Unfolding Pavilion and Space Transcribers
The Institute for Linear Research
Exploring contemporary landscapes through walking a line
By Luis Hilti and Matilde Igual Capdevila
Matters of Debate
A platform for collective intelligence on city-making
By Cristina Ampatzidou and Ania Molenda, Amateur Cities
Illustrations by Janar Siniloo
A Critical View
Five years of Future Architecture platform
Interview with Matevž Čelik
By Sophie Lovell
The Alchemy of the Wor(l)d
Some ideas about plausible futures in architecture publishing
Interview by Sophie Lovell and Fiona Shipwright
Illustrations by Janar Siniloo
Adapting Tradition for the Future
Fostering sustainability and a local sense of ownership
By Jan Glasmeier
Turning the Tables
Architecture after architecture
By Marina Otero Verzier
Illustrations by Janar Siniloo
Modulor’s Bastard Children
Inhabitants challenging the modernist straightjacket
By Arquitectura Subalterna
True to Form
On shaping the architectural debate
Interview with André Tavares by Mariabruna Fabrizi & Fosco Lucarelli
Agro Commune
Challenging neo-colonial exploitation with utopian realism
By Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee, Office of Human Resources
Back To The Land 2.0
A robust design agenda for bioregions
By John Thackara
Illustrations by Janar Siniloo
In The Prison of the Present
A short guide to post-futurist design strategies
By Ana Jeinić
Illustrations by Andreas Töpfer
Permanent Temporality of Refugee Camps
Architectural expectations and dilemmas in humanitarian urban spaces
By Nikita Gyawali
A Self-Constructed Paradigm
Housing that is about more than just houses
By Sara Neves and Filipe Estrela
Domains of Influence
A discussion about data, archives, taxonomy, context and credit
Interview with Mariabruna Fabrizi & Fosco Lucarelli
By James Taylor-Foster
35 Meridians of Radical Rituals
On revolutionising the ways we manage and envision our communal space
By Gian Maria Socci and Alkistis Thomidou, 45º
Learning To See Through Walls
Addressing race and space with the New Architecture Writers
Interview with Thomas Aquilina
By George Kafka
Common Places
Plan Común’s public greenhouse for Graz
By Felipe de Ferrari, Kim Courrèges, Diego Grass & Thomas Batzenschlager
Growing Realisations
Architecture and post-capitalism
A conversation between Matthew Dalziel, Maria Smith, Tania Tovar Torres, Liva Dudareva and Eduardo Cassina
Building Narratives
Story-making for accessibility and empowerment
A conversation between Justinas Dūdėnas, Andrius Ropolas, Paula Brücke and Arian Lehner
Architecture of Commons
How citizen-led action in Turkey reclaimed the notion of common(s)
By Merve Bedir
Crossing the Threshold
Taking the museum out of the building and into the street
Interview with Andreas Ruby by Fiona Shipwright