Contributors: Ana Betancour and Carl-Johan Vesterlund, Alejandro Haiek Coll, Stephen Graham, John Jordan, Ana Monrabal-Cook and Cameron Overy, Maj Plemenitas, Shahed Saleem, Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, Matthew Turner, Unknown Fields, Max Wisotsky
Contributions focus on the exploration of issues that affect architectural production and discourse that are manifest in specific geographical locations but are also caused by, or exist as, responses to interconnected global conditions.
Central to this issue of P.E.A.R. are questions about how architecture can seek to engage with, negate and even enhance circumstances—whether economic, social, aesthetic or political—that exist in specific urban and rural locations, but are driven by dynamic and complex forces at national and international scales. These forces include the ongoing development of globalization driven by capital, the increasingly dramatic effects of climate change, and the enduring contemporary preoccupations that focus intellectual and natural resources on technological and scientific development. The issue explores how architecture, manifested as spatial, temporal, material and programmatic conditions, can operate critically within complex social, ecological, political and cultural systems.
Contributors operate between the artistic, scientific and professional fields of spatial knowledge, with an emphasis on exploratory and experimental work based on broad interdisciplinary perspectives. Alongside contributions from architectural practitioners, theorists and historians, the issue features work from geographers and political activists.
Issue price: 12 GBP
Dimensions: 297mm x 210mm
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Chicago: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies
Koln: Buchhandlung Walther Koenig GmbH & Co
Taipei: Multi-Arts Corporation
Singapore: Basheer Graphic Books
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P.E.A.R.: Paper for Emerging Architectural Research
P.E.A.R. was founded in 2009 to actively seek to explore the experimental and the critical in architectural discourse and practice. It also sought to investigate the relationship between art and architecture. Issue No. 8 is supported by The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and edited by Ana Betancour, Carl-Johan Vesterlund with Matthew Butcher, Laura Cherry, Stylianos Giamarelos and Daniel James Wilkinson.
This eighth outing for the journal ties into the publication of the book Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice: Curated Works from the P.E.A.R Journal. The book, edited by Matthew Butcher and Megan O’Shea is published by UCL Press and is a reflection on the first decade of publication of P.E.A.R.: Paper for Emerging Architectural Research, between 2009 and 2019.
