Matter Matters (SP. ED)

Diseñar con el mundo Olga Subirós (ed.) Matter Matters reflects on the current environmental and social crises through the lens of materiality, positioning matter as the focal point to address the political ecology of objects in a society striving for carbon neutrality by 2050. The publication is based on the homonymous exhibition at the Museo del Disseny-Dhub, featuring over 500 pieces, including more than a hundred contemporary designs in dialogue with the museum’s historical collection. Matter Matters is structured into eight chapters according to materials: Petrochemical, Plant-based, Animal, Microbiological, Mineral, Digital, Intangible, and Affection-Fiction. Each chapter includes articles by international and local authors, as well as micro-narratives that visually showcase the pieces from the exhibition in various juxtapositions. Buy English edition Buy Catalan edition

Matter Matters (ENG. ED)

Designing with the World Olga Subirós (ed.) Matter Matters reflects on the current environmental and social crises through the lens of materiality, positioning matter as the focal point to address the political ecology of objects in a society striving for carbon neutrality by 2050. The publication is based on the homonymous exhibition at the Museo del Disseny-Dhub, featuring over 500 pieces, including more than a hundred contemporary designs in dialogue with the museum’s historical collection. Matter Matters is structured into eight chapters according to materials: Petrochemical, Plant-based, Animal, Microbiological, Mineral, Digital, Intangible, and Affection-Fiction. Each chapter includes articles by international and local authors, as well as micro-narratives that visually showcase the pieces from the exhibition in various juxtapositions. Buy Spanish edition Buy Catalan edition

Robotic Translations

Design Processes - Latin America Daniela Atencio This publication focuses on two issues associated with a technological approach and its relationship with research in the architectural discipline. First, the investigation concerns specific technological tools (software and hardware) based on interactions with a 6-axis robotic arm and deepens the scholarly exploration of design strategies that can amplify creative pedagogies for undergraduate architecture students in Latin America. Second, advanced prototyping in a research and creation process allows questioning disciplinary issues through speculative and narrative techniques or conceptualizations of architectural objects (artifacts). In this case, the research-creation objectives become pedagogical objects, examining a disciplinary reinterpretation, or reintegration, with the digital world; likewise, opening contemplation on how learning from specific stylistic or conceptual issues can generate new perspectives and promote new inflections and representations for the design process. At its most ambitious, the discussion is about the past and future of architecture and its encounter with technology, addressing with a sense of urgency the actual local conditions where it operates. This work constitutes a history of the relationships between styles and technology, between objects and artifacts, or in this specific case, hyper-artifacts, by unlocking the material capacities of the objects, establishing new qualities, arrangements, and above all, new responsibilities and interpretations of the cases studied. This research-creation points to new conceptual conclusions. With Contributions of Claudio Rossi, Peter Testa and Gabriel Esquivel.

AA Book 2024

Ryan Dillon & Anna Lisa Reynolds

The AA Book is published annually and features hundreds of projects by students from every academic programme within the school. This year, it is an assemblage of the ideas, approaches, images and voices that have defined the past year, and extracts from our archive. There are infinite potential pairings contained in this box. Rearrange at will, add, subtract, curate and orchestrate – it is yours to perform.

AA Files 80

Maria Shéhérazade Giudici

AA Files is the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture’s journal of record, currently edited by Maria Shéhérazade Giudici. This issue features eleven contributions that put forward different approaches to architectural research, examining issues from land speculation and class construction to future forms of domesticities and reflections on uprootedness. Throughout, AA Files 80 seeks to unearth past moments of architectural agency to demonstrate that even in times of social and environmental crisis, new spatial imaginaries are possible.

Concerning…Land

Ingrid Schroder, Emily Priest

This publication asks contributors a direct and open question: what are you concerned with right now? Its aim is to place current topics and debate at the centre of architectural education. By publishing contrasting views revolving around a singular question, architects, practitioners, educators, students and theorists can share their ideas on how urgent issues can be examined and rethought within education, practice and writing.

With Contributions Of Charlotte Birell, Georgia Hablützel, Tadeáš Ríha, Silvana Taher

Reyner Banham

A Set of Actual Tracks Ludovico Centis

Sixteen of the acerbic historian’s essays and book chapters have been selected by the book’s contributors, ranging from classics such as ‘The Great Gizmo’ to lesser-known texts, such as ‘The Wall’, an intimate confession he penned at the hospital shortly before his death. Each is accompanied by a contemporary response that contextualises Banham’s text, drawing out reflections on what the critic’s work means today.

With Contributions Of Olivier Arditi, Mario Carpo, Maristella Casciato, Ludovico Centis, Adrian Forty, Curt Gambetta, Kersten Geers, Albert Narath, Barbara Penner, Penny Sparke, Tim Street-Porter, Alice Twemlow, Paola Viganò, Richard J. Williams, Mimi Zeiger

Bios in Search of Zoe

Ecological Graphic Novel Assia Crawford The purpose of the narrative constructed is to question how the biological materials and practices explored by the author through her research could feed into a broader global practice. It captures the tensions within scientific discourse that stem from the traditional scientific view of nature as a machine and the more recent science that points to nature as an intelligent force that humanity is deeply entangled within. The author further looks to propose a pre-Enlightenment type of system of belief and animism that fosters a relationship with nature and tries to discover if the scientific and paganism views can be combined to encourage environmental stewardship.

What About Learning?

Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor Deborah Saunt with Jane Wong and Timothy Newton This books focuses on “What about Learning?” a studio led by Deborah Saunt of DSDHA, in London in terms of how architectural education and learning at large faced ongoing disruptions and pressures under the COVID-19 pandemic. Disembodied learning and a renewed sense of civic participation, along with increasing awareness of how one’s relationship with the environment is so critical to life at home, led the students to consider a twofold architectural question: What is the best site for learning today? What are the alternative forms of learning and exchange it could nurture? A collective analysis of YSoA’s changing conditions, from its physical site to its virtual presence and networks, and parallel research into alternative learning models, such as University of the Underground and the London School of Architecture, served as a basis for critique and the making, and unmaking of curriculum in the students’ studio projects. The design projects drew from lockdown and needs for different spatial potentials in sites of personal significance for learning. Talks from a symposium with invited guests from different fields—from activism to planning and pedagogy—addressed cross-disciplinary exchange about learning and the built environment and are also included. With Contributions of Ashton Harrell, Ben Woo Thompson, Claudia Ansorena, Gordon Jiang, Justin Kong, Saba Salekfard, Shuang Chen, Tyler Krebs, Vignesh Harikrishnan

Retrospecta 47

Krista Lebovitz, Tony Salem Musleh, Ugen Yonten, Zicheng (Roy) Zhang Each year, Retrospecta celebrates exceptional student work and aims to capture what distinguishes an education at the School of Architecture. Much of what makes Yale unique stems from the varied and hearty experiences within its academic structure: the 6on7s, the Thursday receptions, the events that unfold between lunchtime and studio. While the schedule of classes brings order and reason, it is also the scaffolding upon which moments of inquiry and whimsy take place. Yale's education is punctuated by the attention we give and the issues we tend to–it is this generosity within an academic structure that gives Rudolph Hall its texture and life. To reflect this layered and untidy experience–as studios, seminars, and day-to-day life occur simultaneously–Retrospecta 47 is structured in an alternating sequence, a weaving of sorts. Between the ordered strings of studios and seminars are the loose threads: a broader context which, month by month, charts the confluence of lectures, events, discussions, and celebrations that color Rudolph Hall. Within the following pages is a chronology that is honest to the academic year. The book begins with the introduction of an incoming cohort and end with the farewell of another, the graduating class of 2024. In between is a sequence of varied experiences, a catalog of innovative ideas marked by spontaneous happenings, a celebration of individual work, and a tapestry collectively created. With Contributions of A letter from the Dean and a letter from the Editors followed by drawings, photos, essay excerpts, reflections, and graphics contributed by students and faculty across the Yale School of Architecture.

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