Beyond Competency

This paper argues that the architectural academy is guilty of producing architects who might be competent, but are not effective in putting their training into socially relevant use. It examines what follows then is a set of 7 nested and increasingly institutionally-scaled observations – formalism, design, analysis, curricula, pedagogy, academia, and administrative institutions – about architectural education that attempt to locate the various arenas which require re-thinking for a relevant and empowered discipline. It ends with a call to arms for architecture academics to unite to produce the radical change needed to address our current, crisis-driven world

Beyond Competency

This paper argues that the architectural academy is guilty of producing architects who might be competent, but are not effective in putting their training into socially relevant use. It examines what follows then is a set of 7 nested and increasingly institutionally-scaled observations – formalism, design, analysis, curricula, pedagogy, academia, and administrative institutions – about architectural education that attempt to locate the various arenas which require re-thinking for a relevant and empowered discipline. It ends with a call to arms for architecture academics to unite to produce the radical change needed to address our current, crisis-driven world

Architecture and affect

Invited Lecture for Interdisciplinary seminar, Yale School of Architecture. Seminar investigates architectural techniques of affect; topics included Adrian Stokes, Freud on aggression, Spinoza, German aesthetics, viscerality, Guattari and “concrete machines”; Other Invited guests: Peggy Deamer, Brian Massumi, Gary Genosko, Ernst Prelinger, Elizabeth Grosz, Ed Mitchell

Asymmetric Labors: The Economy of Architecture in Theory and Practice

A book of some fifty texts by workers who discuss the social, economic, and political value of their labor in architecture. The contributors are architectural historians, writers, researchers, professors, students, and practitioners, including: Felipe Aravena, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Daniel A. Barber, Chris Barker, Nick Beech, Joaquin Díez Canedo, Aaron Cayer, Dariel Cobb, Kieran Connolly, Joe Crowdy, Tobias Danielmeier, Peggy Deamer, Kirti Durelle, Eva Hagberg Fisher, Gary Fox, Frabrizio Gallanti, Curt Gambetta, Anna Goodman, James Graham, Gevork Hartoonian, Andrew Herscher, Mark Jarzombek, Tahl Kaminer, Hanan Kataw, Anne Kockelkorn, Sben Korsh, Christos Kritkos, Nadir Lahiji, James Longfield, Yasser Megahed, Jacob Moore, Joan Ockman, Daniel Fernández Pascual, Eric Peterson, Joanne Preston, Peg Rawes, Eric Wycoff Rogers, Andreas Rumpfhuber, Susanne Schindler, Jack Self, Adam Sharr, Manuel Shvartzberg, Brent Sturlaugson, Meredith TenHoor, Stefano Tornieri, Alessandro Toti, Norihiko Tsuneishi, Tijana Vujosevic, Who Builds Your Architecture? (Kadambari Baxi, Jordan Carver, Laura Diamond Dixit, Mabel O. Wilson), Yang Yang