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PLP Architecture is a London-based group of architects, founded by four partners, Lee Polisano, David Leventhal, Karen Cook, and Ron Bakker. The studio was formed in 2009 as a platform for typological innovation with a mission to investigate how shifts in cultural practice and emerging technologies combine to establish new kinds of spatial experience. Through a commitment to social, economic and environmental ideals, the studio addresses the evolving possibilities of living and working in the city.
Another Kind
A Survey of the Possible City
David Leventhal, Lee Polisano, PLP Architecture
The last decade has seen an accelerated evolution of typologies. Today's cities are marked by a growing digital presence and the emergence of a global sharing economy; shared spaces have increased our social and sustainable focus, drastically altered our understanding of ownership and responsibility, and redefined our experience of public and private domains. Such changes have in turn rewritten the demands on architecture, the role of the designer, and the power of the profession.
In Another Kind, PLP Architecture presents ten projects as case studies to examine the emergence of a new typological fluidity. These projects serve as anchors to survey the cultural landscape of the past ten years. Projects can no longer be traditionally codified and instead present themselves as assemblages of exterior influences, new cultural interests, and 21st century social habits. In Another Kind, projects are intertwined with essays
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