Fragility: Foundations for a Regenerative Architecture

Abstract

In a time where global crises are rapidly multiplying, fragility emerges as a pervasive, planetary condition. Fragility rattles our perception of continuity and development by rendering visible the interdependencies that sustain our shared environment. It exists as an uncertain and formative condition where everything vibrates, collapses, and changes in coinciding and untimely manners. It brings into view a network of relations across materials, social systems, ecological forces, and temporal shifts, each actively shaping how buildings come into being, evolve, and persist. It frames conditions of openness in which architecture is constantly composed and recomposed through processes of transformation. Fragility articulates this embeddedness and makes balanced interdependencies and transient temporalities present to us.