The Journal of Architecture

The Engineered Consent of a Discipline Recently, I got stuck in a debate about the agency of architecture. In fact, it wasn’t the first time. May I even say this impasse has characterised my entire career? Me: insisting that architecture should—and eventually will—play a crucial role in the human resolve required to address the existential issues of my generation and those to come. Them: accusing me of expecting too much from architecture, of ignoring its hands-on, down-to-ea

The Rituals of Architectural Belonging Thirty years of publication have accustomed us to familiar cycles: thematic turns arrive with urgency, crystallise into positions, and eventually sediment into subfields. Meanwhile, the ground shifts beneath us. The crises we now inhabit no longer appear episodic or discrete. Climate destabilisation, ecological collapse, infrastructural failure, war, forced migration, and algorithmic governance are cumulative, entangled, and incessantly