During the year 2020, millions of people around the world had to quarantine, self-isolate, and apply physical and social distancing. Our lives, our family and work have drastically shifted into what many are increasingly calling the “new normal”. People work, study, shop and even get health advice remotely. Yet, not everyone enjoys suitable spaces for conducting virtual lives. While much ...

Designers, architects and urban planners are increasingly taking on the task of managing social and political issues of relationships, neighborhoods, energy flows, mobility, cultural heritage, identity and urban change, rather than just spatial and formal aspects. The theme ‘Landscapes of care’ focuses on a change of direction in the values, interests and priorities that drive architecture and urban planning. The ...

Excerpt from the chapter ‘Ceci n’est pas une Bauakademie’ Inspired in the project ‘Neue Bauakademie Berlin. A club for the former & future architecture’ by Hendrik Brinkmann. The text is featured in the forthcoming book ‘Fables and Constructions’ by Lucie Kohoutová & Martina Freitagová. This is the title of the winning entry for the FINAL_FINAL writing grant launched ...

Excerpt from the chapter ‘Unsunk Heroes’ Inspired in the project ‘Hope on Water’ by Sevince Bayrak, Oral Göktaş. The text is featured in the forthcoming book ‘Fables and Constructions’ by Lucie Kohoutová & Martina Freitagová. This is the title of the winning entry for the FINAL_FINAL writing grant launched by dpr-barcelona within the Future Architecture 2019 Call ...

Communities everywhere are facing the “apocalypse” on a day-to-day basis. The reality of surviving it is not about building bunkers, it is about building resilience – everywhere and in all kinds of ways.

In 2017, the Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic’s performance, installation and film project Spielraum was one of the selected projects for the Future Architecture platform Open Call. What is particularly fascinating about her work is how she makes architecture an integral part of it: as ideas in concrete form, as an instrument of power structures, and as a spatial ...

Carlijn Kingma studied architecture but calls herself a researcher and cartographer. She graduated from the TU Delft in 2016 with a master project entitled: “The Institute of Utopianism”. 

In 2016 at the Venice Architecture Biennale entitled “Reporting from the Front”, the Polish pavilion hosted one of the most powerful installations of the whole show. For “Fair Building” Dominika Janicka, in cooperation with Martyna Janicka and Michał Gdak, created a set of five powerful short documentary films, which are now made available to the FA platform here.

The future of architecture is very much about embracing complexity and looking at strategic intervention strategies beyond the discipline itself. Maybe it’s time to stop talking about the “urban” and the “rural” and consider ourselves as part of a delicate and intricate bioregional balance. This essay by environmentalist Freya Yost may be about open access and agriculture but it ...

Sometimesit can take the smallest of interventions to make one realise how precious anarchitect’s contribution to the community can be. This beautifully shot film documents the results of one of the 2017 selected Call for Ideas projects by a young collective of creatives from Warsaw calling themselves “Terytoria Kultury” (“CultureTerritories”).

How can you navigate towards something when there are no fixed points, when you cannot determine your position? How do you know where to go, or even know when you have got there?

In recent decades the figure of a reluctant architect has emerged: instead of strictly controlling the process of building from the drawing board to the end of construction, architects started to voluntarily retreat from it.