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There is a newfound interest in architectural drawing. Some of the
most forward-looking architects worldwide are reinventing it to
discover the radical possibilities of contemporary architecture as
a rich mix of the virtual and the actual. Architectural drawing is
adapting to compensate for these new changes to the discipline, and
is being used to speculate on new paradigms of space and
representation. This AD seeks to showcase the architects who are
pushing the envelope of drawing in extraordinary ways, and their
insights into architecture's future spatial dexterity. The issue is
built around an international group of architects involved in an
ongoing KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture international drawing
research project, who are creating new drawing methodologies in new
and exciting realms. Their projects are written about from the
perspective of architectural representation by critics and
commentators from across the globe, illustrating a cornucopia of
graphic verve and talent in this highly contemporary and
thought-provoking issue. Contributors: Aaron Betsky, Penelope
Haralambidou, Ulrika Karlsson, Michael McGarry, Nicholas de
Monchaux, Ricardo de Ostos, Alberto Perez-Gomez, Peter Salter,
Chris L Smith, Wolfgang Tschapeller, Sarah de Villiers, Robin
Wilson, and Jason Young. Drawings by: Bryan Cantley, Nat Chard,
Peter Cook, Riet Eeckhout, CJ Lim, Perry Kulper, Metis (Mark
Dorrian and Adrian Hawker), Shaun Murray, Smout Allen, Neil
Spiller, Nada Subotincic, Michael Webb, Mark West, and Michael
Young.
There is a newfound interest in architectural education. This AD is
a survey of some of the best contemporary architecture student work
in the world. The most forward-looking architecture schools
worldwide are reinventing pedagogy in the hope of developing
radical syllabi that are a rich mix of the virtual and the actual.
Design education is changing and adapting to compensate for the new
material changes to the discipline, and is being used to
disentangle old, outmoded spatial practices and replace them with
new paradigms of space and representation. This issue showcases the
students and teachers who are pushing the envelope of architecture
in extraordinary ways, offering their insights into its future
materiality and spatial dexterity. It premieres a new young
generation of architects who are likely to become names in the
architectural profession and possibly important teachers
themselves. Their work has been selected by their own influential
teachers of architecture who describe the studio methodologies -
and reasons for them - that prompted the work. Contributors: Daniel
K Brown, Jane Burry, Nat Chard, Odile Decq, Evan Douglis, Riet
Eeckhout, Mark Garcia, Nicolas Hannequin, Perry Kulper, Elena
Manferdini, Mark Morris, Hani Rashid, and Michael Young. Featured
institutions: A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban
Planning, University of Michigan; Architectural Association,
London; Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London;
Carleton University, Ottawa; CONFLUENCE Institute for Innovation
and Creative Strategies in Architecture, Paris; Cooper Union, New
York; University of Greenwich, London; KU Leuven, Belgium;
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York; Southern California
Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles; Swinburne
University of Technology, Melbourne; Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand; and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna
We are entering a new era of architecture that is technologically
enhanced, virtual and synthetic. Contemporary architects operate in
a creative environment that is both real and digital; mixed,
augmented and hybridised. This world consists of ecstasies, fears,
fetishisms and phantoms, processes and spatiality that can best be
described as Surrealist. Though too long dormant, Surrealism has
been a significant cultural force in modern architecture. Founded
by poet Andre Breton in Paris in 1924 as an artistic, intellectual
and literary movement, architects such as Le Corbusier, Diller +
Scofidio, Bernard Tschumi and John Hejduk realised its evocative
powers to propel them to 'starchitect' status. Rem Koolhaas most
famously illustrated Delirious New York (1978) with Madelon
Vriesendorp's compelling Surrealist images. Architects are now
reviving the power of Surrealism to inspire and explore the
ramifications of advanced technology. Architects' studios in
practices and schools are becoming places where nothing is
forbidden. Architectural languages and theories are 'mashed'
together, approaches are permissively appropriated, and styles are
not mutually exclusive. Projects are polemic, postmodern and
surreally media savvy. Today's architects must compose space that
operates across the spatial spectrum. Surrealism, with its multiple
readings of the city, its collage semiotics, its extruded forms and
artificial landscapes, is an ideal source for contemporary
architectural inspiration. Contributors include: Bryan Cantley, Nic
Clear, James Eagle, Natalie Gall, Mark Morris, Dagmar Motycka
Weston, Alberto Perez-Gomez, Shaun Murray, Anthony Vidler, and
Elizabeth Anne Williams. Featured architects: Nigel Coates, Hernan
Diaz Alonso, Perry Kulper, and Mark West.
AHMM is a premier international architectural practice. Established
over 30 years ago, it has won numerous awards including the
Stirling Prize. Through the contributions of journalists, clients,
fellow professionals and academics, this AD issue celebrates the
practice's achievements in all areas of architectural production,
featuring archive material, new works and unparalleled access to
the AHMM organisation, revealing new insights into their work and
urban philosophies. To get to this eminent position, the office has
consistently responded in innovative and imaginative ways to the
changing imperatives of art, science and economics that influence
our built environment. These parameters have metamorphosed
considerably since AHMM was founded, in terms of advances in
digitisation, material science and changes to contract management,
what constitutes sustainability, procurement routes, construction
methods, collaboration and architectural education. Above all this
AD will explore AHMM's practice as a holistic design project in
itself, in terms of building buildings, but also in using a design
ethos to cope with shifts in workload and the firm's varying
business activities and its administration over the years, thus
providing insight for a future generation of potentially successful
architectural professionals.
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