Review: ‘Architects After Architecture: Alternative Pathways for Practice’
A quick review of ‘Architects After Architecture: Alternative Pathways for Practice’ (2020), edited by Harriet Harriss, Rory Hyde, and Roberta Marcaccio
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8 min readDec 28, 2020
Ed. The editors of this new collection, Architects After Architecture, kindly asked me to write a short endorsement for the dust jacket. Of course, I wrote a form of quick review instead, from which they plucked the sentence they needed for the back cover (above). But I thought I’d share that quick review here, as the book is so very useful. Full disclosure: one of the editors, Rory Hyde, is a close friend, and several other friends and colleagues are featured in the collection — indeed, some of my own work, with Studio Folder for the Punkt MP02, can be briefly glimpsed in there too. (Studio Folder also designed this handsome book.) Yet as is often the case in skilled hands, a new curation shed new light on the work, and workers, I already knew — and I learned much from those whose work was new to me. As with Rory’s earlier Future Practice (2012), this book is highly recommended for anyone interested in the future of architecture, and design more broadly, and the things and environments it produces. Finally, see also my articles for AD, Architects without…
