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Redefining Practice

About the Guest-Editors 5

Introduction: The Changing Forms and Values of Architectural Practice 6

Constitutive Crises: Radical Practice and the Definition of the Centre 14

Diversification of The Role: Financing the Expanded Field: Adding Value Through Innovative Practice 22

Building Digital Stories: Architecture and Cartography Meet Documentary and Journalism 30

Towards an Intermediary Practice: Bucharest Laboratory 38

The Architect as Optimist: Carl Turner 44

The Power of Localism: Architectural Localism as Damage Control in the Face of Globalism and Digitisation 50

Co-produced Urban Resilience: A Framework for Bottom-Up Regeneration 58

Collective Intelligences: The Future is Hybrid 66

Seriously Playful: Designing Beyond the Expected in Guatemala City 72

Architect as Disruptor: Going from Zero to 00: Indy Johar on Shifting the Focus of Practice from Objects to Outcomes 78

Down by the River: Design for Organising 86

Bricks and Mercury: A Story of Buildings and Ideas 92

Shifting the Line: Reclaiming Space for Social Interaction 98

Policy Strategy and Common Good: Designing Upstream: Rebuilding Agency Through New Forms of Public Practice 104

Common Scales: From the Intimate and Human to the Strategic and Influential 116

Participative Architecture: The Way to More Environmental Justice 122

Counterpoint: Practising in the Margins High Turnover, Low Cost 128

Contributors 134

Chris Bryant worked at Arup Associates and Make Architects, before co-founding the Alma-nac in London in 2010. His theoretical work has been widely published. Alongside teaching Architecture at Birmingham University, Chris chairs the RIBA Small Practice Panel and the Guerilla Tactics event.
Caspar Rodgers worked with practices in the UK, Australia and Japan, including Sean Godsell, Foster + Partners and Ian Simpsons Architects, before co-founding Alma-nac. He has had his writing published in various books and periodicals, including Icon, Blueprint and Wallpaper. He teaches Architecture at Oxford Brookes University.
Tristan Wigfall worked at a range of practices in both North America and the UK, including Cullinan Studio and Cottrell and Vermeulen, before co-founding Alma-nac. Alma-nac is an ideas-driven, research-based practice.