Project Archive
An Architectural Survey of Socially Engaging Extracanonical Works: Volume 1: Socially Engaging Forms
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 170
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781957183473
- Utgivelsesår: 2023
- Bidragsyter: Dhore, Namrata; Truwit, Christina; Kusaba, Sofie
Project Archive reforms the contemporary architectural discipline¿s understanding of the built environment. The content encourages the audience to acknowledge the role of architecture as a political actant. Featured projects prioritise an attitude that goes beyond its formal elements of the current architectural canon. The projects give importance to both formal aesthetics and the ability to serve the urgent social needs of a community.
Included projects also forefront lower-tech solutions. They enforce culturally resilient models of domesticity as sustainable living and a longer-term response to ongoing environmental crises. Thus, showcasing extra-canonical works provides an opportunity to reflect on diverse solutions.
The content endorses learnings from regionally specific and environmentally resilient models of architecture. This book provides diversity in knowledge systems, and varied responses to; reforming traditional modes of domesticity,