This issue of Perspecta discusses whether fame empowers architecture by giving architects leverage to produce ambitious projects or undermines architecture by diluting the quality …
Essays, interviews, and projects explore an expanded vocabulary of spatial practice.Architecture exists in the public sphere and is the product of collective work and knowledge. …
Considering a redefinition of global space.As much as it is a neoclassical compositional principle, the ensemble today is shifting into a new critical focus: it is a central figure …
Ruminations on the paradoxical nature of amnesia: can the gaps it creates provide spaces for invention?Architecture, the most durable of the arts, is inextricably linked to issues …
A handbook of best practices, strategies, and speculation for architecture's future.Architecture has always been intimately intertwined with its social, political, and economic …
An exploration of quotation, appropriation, and plagiarism, arguing that quotation and associated operations are ubiquitous, intentional, and vital in architecture.Every …
A monster is in our midst, and its name is Architecture.Contemporary architecture is in many ways a monstrous thing. It is bigger, more broadly defined, increasingly complicated, …
Explorations of spatial, cultural, and social divides in the city.Globalization promised an interconnected world, yet our cities are increasingly divided. In the past decade, for …
The practice of architecture after the breakdown of consensus: designers, theoreticians, and scholars consider architecture's divergent ideological landscape in this issue of …
The issue presents contemporary American projects that representanother generation of commitment to activist practice-continuing toapproach design as a socially engaged, …
