Remote Practices: Architecture at a Distance

This book explores how architects, designers, theorists, and critics design, describe, and critique future and past constructions in absentia, engaging with remote practice and providing insights into the challenges and opportunities of teaching and studying architecture at a distance.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 01 June 2022
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd

As transportation and technology continue to bridge the gap between architects, clients, builders, and sites, critique, and place, this book explores how architects, designers, theorists, and critics create, describe, and critique future and past constructions in absentia. This book delves into remote practice, equipping students, academics, and professionals with the knowledge and tools to reimagine the role of the distant and disconnected in making, thinking, and writing architecture, a skill that is becoming increasingly crucial in contemporary education and practice.

Bringing together a diverse and esteemed group of scholars and designers, this book examines the challenges and opportunities presented by remote practices in architecture. Part One: Practice and Pedagogy explores how technological and economic advancements continue to redefine notions of connectedness in the practice of architecture at a distance, examining what it means to teach and study architecture remotely from peers and places. Part Two: Critique and Performativity comprises a wide range of questions that unpack notions of situatedness, subjectivity, the body in space, and what transpires when disparate things are suddenly brought together. The essays and creative works facilitate thematic and historically and culturally contextual understanding of the topic, highlighting significant connections and changes across time.

Dimension: 250 x 190 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781848225312