FUTURE PRACTICE Conversations from the Edge of Architecture

Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of architecture, policy, activism, design, education, research, history, community engagement and more, each representing an emergent role for designers to occupy. Whether the “civic entrepreneur,” the “double agent,” or the “strategic designer,” this book offers a diverse spectrum of approaches to design, each offering a potential future for architectural practice.

With a foreword by Dan Hill and interviews with Steve Ashton ARM, Bryan Boyer Helsinki Design Lab, Camila Bustamante, Mel Dodd muf_aus, DUS Architects,  Jeanne Gang Studio Gang, Reinier de Graaf and Laura Baird AMO, Conrad Hamann, Natalie Jeremijenko xClinic, Indy Johar 00:/, Bruce Ma, Arjen Oosterman and Lilet Breddels Volume, Todd Reisz, Wouter Vanstiphout Crimson, Matt Webb BERG, Marcus Westbury Renew Newcastle, and Liam Young, Unknown Fields

CONTENTS

• Foreword Dan Hill.
• Introduction.
• 1. The Massive Changer: Bruce Mau
• 2. The Civic Entrepreneur: Indy Johar, 00:/
• 3. The Whole Earth Architect: Reinier de Graaf and Laura Baird, AMO
• 4. The Double Agent: Mel Dodd, muf_aus
• 5. The Historian of the Present: Wouter Vanstiphout, Crimson
• 6. The Urban Activist: Camila Bustamante
• 7. The Contractual Innovator: Steve Ashton, ARM
• 8. The Near Future Inventor: Matt Webb, BERG
• 9. The Strategic Designer: Bryan Boyer, Helsinki Design Lab
• 10. The Management Thinkers: Todd Reisz on Consultants
• 11. The Community Enabler: Marcus Westbury, Renew Newcastle
• 12. The New Amsterdam Schoolt: DUS Architects
• 13. The Professional Generalist: Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang
• 14. The Architect as Public Intellectual: Conrad Hamann on Robin Boyd
• 15. The Educator of Excess: Liam Young, Unknown Fields
• 16. The Editor of the Beyond: Arjen Oosterman and Lilet Breddels, Volume
• 17. The Environmental Medic: Natalie Jeremijenko, xClinic.
• Endnotes. Index. Colophon

280 pages / 12 x 18,5 cm / English