Alt-Form: Indeterminacy and Disorder

The absence of a central theoretical voice in architecture has led to the emergence of alternative formalisms (Alt-Form). This issue of AD seeks to reach peripheral disciplines to support an architecture that responds to broader cultural shifts. The field of architecture has experienced a shift towards novelty-apathetic attitudes, with project proposals that resist immediate solutions and embrace the complexities of the contemporary condition. Featured architects include AGENCY, Architecture and Other Things, Atelier Office, Dream the Combine, First Office, MIRACLES, and Morphosis.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 10 March 2022
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

In a world that is lacking a central theoretical voice in architecture, the time has come to seek out emergent voices on the topic of 'alternative formalisms (Alt-Form). This issue of AD aims to reach peripheral disciplines in order to support an architecture that no longer operates as a standalone field of study but rather responds to broader, urgent, and pluralistic cultural shifts.

In the existing contemporary landscape of visually oriented fields of study, casual compositions and other formless expressions have begun to re-emerge, particularly in the disciplines of art, architecture, and popular image culture. In architecture, with the rise of the digital, the last two decades have witnessed a field in pursuit of novel styles through the use of the latest digital tools. More recently, however, over the last five years or so, the field has experienced a more novelty-apathetic attitude, permeated with project proposals that resist the urge to offer immediate solutions in favor of enmeshment with a contemporary condition characterized by duress, destruction, uncertainty, and other formless becomings.

This AD explores this new, emerging world.

Contributors: Suzanne Cotter, Andrew Culp, Jack Halberstam, Jeff Halstead, Carolyn Kane, Ersela Kripa, and Stephen Mueller, Carl Lostritto, Thom Mayne, V Mitch McEwen, and Kristina Kay Robinson, Anna Neimark, Jennifer Newsom, and Tom Carruthers, Dorina Pllumbi, Faysal Tabbara, and Dalena Tran.

Featured architects: AGENCY, Architecture and Other Things, Atelier Office, Dream the Combine, First Office, MIRACLES, and Morphosis.

Weight: 530g
Dimension: 480 x 275 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119748793