This is the third in a series of publications that purposefully reframe what a practice monograph might be. This volume repositions architecture as a relational discipline, reversing the logic of building as architectures endpoint. Buildings are, rather, the after-effect of relations.
And while physical or spatial relations are long-established constituent ingredients of architecture,Territories adds cultural, political, economic and social relations to this architectural repertoire. Seen through this lens, the architects scope and agency expands to a network of complex real-world relations, in which designing buildings is only one territory of action. The book divides projects into three distinct categories, from strategic projects at a macro scale, where the outcomes are sometimes not always immediately spatial, to precinct planning at and urban scale, and further, to individual built sites and buildings. Each section is introduced with an essay that contextualises the projects in that section, each as an act of reterritorialisation.
