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Fragility. Foundations for a Regenerative Architecture
No. 15 (2024)Fragility rattles our perception of continuity and development by rendering visible the interdependencies that sustain our shared environment. 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.
In this issue of “Ardeth”, we begin from a shared, hopeful proposition: that fragility is not a limitation but a (re)generative condition of architecture.
Architecture, with its unique multi-scalar situation, from the individual to the global, has under-utilized potential to support transformative change for improving our well-being and our planetary outlook. -
(Spring 2018) | BOTTEGA
No. 02In the last fifteen years we witnessed a new ethnographic wave of studies that focused on practising architecture. This body of research aimed at grasping the socio-material dimension of architectural practice. They all relied on the assumption that architecture is collective but it is shared with a variety of nonhumans. These “new ethnographies” generated “thick descriptions” of the knowledge practices of different participants in design. This issue of “Ardeth” collects contributions that will address the ecology of contemporary architectural practice, scrutinizing it as involving actors with variable ontology, scale and politics; exploring empirically different formats of design and reflecting on the importance of ethnography for understanding contemporary architectural practices.
