Molly Hunker and Kyle Miller will be joined by contributors Anthony Acciavatti, Jennifer Bonner, Brennan Buck, Felipe Correa, Karolina Czeczek, Iben Falconer, Adam Frampton, Anda French, Jenny French, Beatrice Galilee, Julia Gamolina, Andrew Holder, Elisa Iturbe, Jonathan Jackson, Jaffer Kolb, Jess Myers, Bryony Roberts, and Michael Young to discuss their newly released book Building Practice.
Building Practice features interviews with architects, designers, educators, curators, fabricators, strategists, critics, and activists who are advancing speculative design through the culture and politics of building, capturing critical and formative moments associated with building a practice. Each interview reveals strategies for linking practical and theoretical forms of knowledge and evidences the active creation of unique approaches to contributing positively to both architectural culture and the built environment. Collectively, an introduction, twelve short texts on topics that are pertinent to architecture today, and thirty-two interviews convey how architects claim conceptual territory regarding form, space, order, materiality, and aesthetics, and push for design to have meaning and value in relation to cultural, environmental, political, and social concerns. The individuals and practices profiled in this book collectively partition themselves from previous generations of experimentally motivated practices while individually exemplifying their own inimitable affinities, techniques, and sensibilities. Building Practice shares the first acts of an emerging generation of practices and identifies the peripheral yet pivotal aspects of building a practice today.
