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Beyond Discourse: Notes on Spatial Agency
This article investigates the word ‘agency’ in relation to the role, responsibility and power of the architect. Using Anthony Giddens’s formulation of agency, we discuss the transformative potential of architecture where the lack of a predetermined future is seen as an opportunity and not a threat. Four episodes describe related instances of architectural practice as spatial agency: muf, OSA, Santiago Cirugeda and The New Architecture Movement. The paper concludes with an urgent call for architects to face up to their political and environmental responsibilities.
Journal Article
Flexible housing: opportunities and limits
Flexibility in housing design has social, economic and environmental advantages and yet is currently often ignored. The first of two papers sets out the history of this issue.
Journal Article
Flexible housing: the means to the end
How might flexible housing be achieved? ‘Determinate’ and ‘indeterminate’ approaches are examined using twentieth-century examples
Journal Article
Architecture and Participation
Bringing together leading international practitioners and theorists in the field, ranging from the 1960s pioneers of participation to some of the major contemporary figures in the field, Architecture and Participation opens up the social and political aspects of our built environment, and the way that the eventual users may shape it. Divided into three sections, looking at the politics, histories and practices of participation, the book gives both a broad theoretical background and more direct examples of participation in practice. Respectively the book explores participation's broader context, outlining key themes and including work from some seminal European figures and shows examples of how leading practitioners have put their ideas into action.
Illustrated throughout, the authors present to students, practitioners and policy makers an exploration of how a participative approach may lead to new spatial conditions, as well as to new types
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Beyond Discourse: Notes on Spatial Agency
This article investigates the word ‘agency’ in relation to the role, responsibility and power of the architect. Using Anthony Giddens’s formulation of agency, we discuss the transformative potential of architecture where the lack of a predetermined future is seen as an opportunity and not a threat. Four episodes describe related instances of architectural practice as spatial agency: muf, OSA, Santiago Cirugeda and The New Architecture Movement. The paper concludes with an urgent call for architects to face up to their political and environmental responsibilities.
Journal Article
Architecture criticism against the climate clock
Till discusses the need for architecture media to address ecological questions to help end the profession's extractivist practices. In the face of crisis, there might be a revived role for architects to play. Climate breakdown is not a straightforward emergency; it is not an issue that can be fixed through technical means alone. It is, in the formulation of US author and druid John Michael Greer, not a problem but a predicament that must be faced, with no expectation of a complete solution. While all new buildings must, of course, reduce carbon by every means possible, the profession needs to go much further than these technocratic standards. A more interventionist architecture media would call out any project that ignores climate breakdown as a central issue or plays with greenwash, and contextualize and put architecture in dialogue with external forces, in a direct challenge to the editors' 1947 eschewal of politics. Architecture media must celebrate an expanded field of architecture, beyond the building alone and into the multiple ways that spatial intelligence and agency might be deployed in the service of climate justice, and open up far beyond the Eurocentric canon, learning from the knowledges and actions of the Global South.
Trade Publication Article
Architecture After Architecture
Architecture and (construction are a massive contributor to carbon emissions. And while the profession makes the right sounds - sustainability, zero carbon, LEED - is it doing enough? Jeremy Till, architect, writer, and head of Central Saint Martins, takes a swing at those virtue-signalling architects who trumpet their environmental credentials while continuing to build airports. Instead, Till argues, tackling the climate emergency will require a fundamental restructuring of the profession, the seeds of which he sees in the empathetic and critical work of his students.
Jeremy Till, architect, writer, and head of Central Saint Martins, takes a swing at those virtue-signalling architects who trumpet their environmental credentials while continuing to build airports. Instead, Till argues, tackling the climate emergency will require a fundamental restructuring of the profession, the seeds of which he sees in the empathetic and critical work of his students. It is not surprising that the twentieth century was a golden era for architecture. It was an era driven by the twinned paradigms of progress and growth. Progress is signaled by growth, and when one speaks of progress one assumes growth. In 2019, one remarkable statement from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) elided ethics with sustainability. The RIBA Ethics and Sustainable Development Commission of 2019, opened their final report with a recommendation for 'an unequivocal commitment to placing public interest, social purpose, ethics and sustainable development at the heart of its activities.'.
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Beyond Discourse: Notes on Spatial Agency
This article investigates the word ‘agency’ in relation to the role, responsibility and power of the architect. Using Anthony Giddens’s formulation of agency, we discuss the transformative potential of architecture where the lack of a predetermined future is seen as an opportunity and not a threat. Four episodes describe related instances of architectural practice as spatial agency: muf, OSA, Santiago Cirugeda and The New Architecture Movement. The paper concludes with an urgent call for architects to face up to their political and environmental responsibilities.
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