Building Practice

(Paperback)

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Building Practice features interviews with architects, designers, educators, curators, fabricators, strategists, critics, and activists who are advancing speculative design through the culture and politics of building, capturing critical and formative moments associated with building a practice.

Each interview reveals strategies for linking practical and theoretical forms of knowledge and evidences the active creation of unique approaches to contributing positively to both architectural culture and the built environment. Collectively, an introduction, twelve short texts on topics that are pertinent to architecture today, and thirty-two interviews convey how architects claim conceptual territory regarding form, space, order, materiality, and aesthetics, and push for design to have meaning and value in relation to cultural, environmental, political, and social concerns.

The individuals and practices profiled in this book collectively partition themselves from previous generations of experimentally motivated practices while individually exemplifying their own inimitable affinities, techniques, and sensibilities. Building Practice shares the first acts of an emerging generation of practices and identifies the peripheral yet pivotal aspects of building a practice today.

Author Bio

All credited contributors: Ellie Abrons, Anthony Acciavatti, Emanuel Admassu, Paul Andersen, Kutan Ayata, Jennifer Bonner, Shumi Bose, Brennan Buck, Tei Carpenter, Tom Carruthers, Mollie Claypool, Felipe Correa, Karolina Czeczek, Ivi Diamantopoulou, Iben Falconer, David Freeland, Anda French, Jenny French, Benjamin Freyinger, Adam Fure, Beatrice Galilee, Julia Gamolina, Jia Yi Gu, Andrew Holder, Molly Hunker, Elisa Iturbe, Jonathan Jackson, Jaffer Kolb, Wei-Han Vivian Lee, Helen Leung, James Macgillivray, Ajay Manthripragada, Jess Myers, Kyle Miller, Meredith Miller, Thom Moran, Sarah Nelson Jackson, Jennifer Newsom, Anna Puigjaner, William OBrien Jr., Gilles Retsin, Justin Rice, Bryony Roberts, Jack Self, Troy Schaum, Rosalyne Shieh, Maxi Spina, Oana Stnescu, Kagan Taylor, Elizabeth Timme, Jen Wood, and Michael Young
Copyeditor: Jayne Kelley. Graphic Designer: Cat Wentworth.
Main Contributors: Kyle Miller is associate dean and an associate professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture. Molly Hunker is co-captain of SPORTS and an assistant professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture.