1. BEGINNINGS How to Get Together and Why

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Preface 6
4. QUESTIONING AUTHORIALITY: THE POSSIBILITY OF CHANGE
5. O n the Collective and Other Kinds 10
6. Europe: a Socioideological Condition 15
7. The Gap Between Academia and Practice 18
8. New Ways of Working and Technological Possibilities 20
9. A New Type of Architectural Project: The Self-Initiated One 21
10. COLLECTIVE PROCESSES: COUNTERPRACTICES IN EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE
11. How Do We Practice and Why Do We Practice? A Collective Discussion with the Actors 26
12. Proposing Alternative Ways of Practicing Architecture in the 2000s: Discussions with the Pioneers 50
13. Baukuh Architecture as a Collective Operation 52
14. Raumlabor Engaging the Public Eye 60
15. Zuloark A Liquid Professional Framework 76
16. Widening Up the Spectrum of Architecture in the 2010s: Seven Questions to Fourteen Contemporary Collectives 84
17. 1. BEGINNINGS How to Get Together and Why 88
18. 2. STATEMENTS Founding Acts 96
19. 3. REFERENCES Question of Identity 106
20. 4. WORKING SPACE Space of Interaction 122
21. 5. ORGANIZATION Horizontality 138
22. 6. DEVELOPMENT Fluidity and the Necessity to Morph 154
23. 7. ARCHITECTURE Action for Reaction, Proposing an Alternative 168
24. Open Conclusion/s Rethinking Architecture 182
25. INDEX OF PRACTICES: INTRODUCING THE ACTORS
26. (AB)NORMAL 190
27. A-A COLLECTIVE 196
28. ASSEMBLE 200
29. CNCRT 204
30. COLECTIVO WAREHOUSE 208
31. COLLECTIF ETC 212
32. CONSTRUCTLAB 216
33. FALSE MIRROR OFFICE 220
34. FOSBURY ARCHITECTURE 224
35. LA–CLIQUE 228
36. LACOL 232
37. N'UNDO 236
38. ORIZZONTALE 240
39. X=(T=E=N) 244