The Roles of the Architect: Toward a Theory of Practice

Today's professional field of architecture is characterised by rapid transformation. This heavily affect the role of the architect both within the building industries as well as in society. This article investigates the professional field, in order to develop a reflection on the role of the architect as it can be 'harvested' from the everyday...

Action and Reaction in Architecture

Introduction - The Shopping Centre 1943-2013: The Rise and Demise of a Ubiquitous Collective Architecture

In his seminal essay ‘Public Spaces, Collective Spaces,’ which was published in 1992, Spanish architect and critic Manuel de Solà-Morales suggested that the civic, architectural, urban and morphological richness of contemporary cities resides in their collective spaces that are not strictly public or private, but both simultaneously.1 De Solà...