The Architect as Producer: Hannes Meyer and the Proletarianisation of the Western Architect

With the foundation of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius advocated an end to the division between arts and crafts. Contrary to the idea of architecture as art, the programme of the school aimed to assimilate architecture with industry in order to satisfy collective social needs. Yet, despite this programmatic declaration, such a project was realised...

Architecture in Everyday Life

For most architects, architecture is not only art, craft, passion and engagement; it is their ‘bread-and-butter’, too, and has been so since long. Architecture, consciously or unconsciously, is also the ‘bread-and-butter’ of communities across the world: successfully or unsuccessfully it is part of the daily lives of ordinary women and men. Yet...

Commoning as Differentiated Publicness

Introduction: Data-Driven Design to Production and Operation

The Birthing of Things: Bergson as a Reader of Lucretius

Asignifying Semiotics as Proto-Theory of Singularity: Drawing is Not Writing and Architecture does Not Speak

Medium Affect Desire: Hybridising Real Virtual and the Actualised through Affective Medium Ecology

Generative and Participatory Parametric Frameworks for Multi-Player Design Games

Generative design processes have been the focus of current architectural research and practice largely due to the exploration of the phenomenon of emergence within self-organisation, generative grammars and evolutionary techniques. These techniques have been informing participatory urban design modalities, which are investigated in this paper by...