Architecture's Kinships (Actar)

Architecture shapes and embodies complex social and environmental articulations.

It is not the container and representation of pre-packaged relationships, but a medium for motley associations. In advancing this proposition, this book explores diverse alliances and permeations of knowledge across media, bringing together arguments and projects that result from multiple conversations and collaborations. It contains an invitation to work in critical, even if messy coalitions, with the hope of questioning exclusionary forms of affiliation and contributing to the imagining of alternative platforms of relationality through the exploration, discussion, activation, and transformation of the built environment.

With texts and projects by by Emanuel Admassu, Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, Architensions (Alessandro Orsini + Nick Roseboro), Neeraj Bhatia / THE OPEN WORKSHOP, Matilde Cassani, Future Projects (Khoi Nguyen + Julie Tran), Ignacio G. Galán, David Gissen, Kevin Gotkin, Andrés Jaque, Karen Kubey, Jesse McCormick, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Iván L. Munuera, Alejandra Navarrete Llopis, O-F Architects (Alvaro M. Fidalgo + Arantza Ozaeta), Marina Otero Verzier, Joel Sanders, Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, Hashim Sarkis.