Architects After Architecture: Alternative Pathways for Practice

What can you do with a degree in architecture? Where might it take you? What kind of challenges could you address? Architects After Architecture reframes architecture as a uniquely versatile way of acting on the world, far beyond that of designing buildings.

In this volume, we meet forty practitioners through profiles, case studies, and interviews, who have used their architectural training in new and resourceful ways to tackle the climate crisis, work with refugees, advocate for diversity, start tech companies, become leading museum curators, tackle homelessness, draft public policy, become developers, design videogames, shape public discourse, and much more.

Together, they describe a future of architecture that is diverse and engaged, expanding the limits of the discipline, and offering new paths forward in times of crisis. Whether you are an architecture student or a practicing architect considering a change, you’ll find this an encouraging and inspiring read.

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HARRIET HARRISS is an architect and dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in New York. Her teaching, research, and writing focus upon pioneering new and inclusive pedagogical models for design education.

RORY HYDE is the curator of contemporary architecture and urbanism at the Victoria and Albert Museum; adjunct senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne; and a design advocate for the Mayor of London. He is the author of Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture (2012).

ROBERTA MARCACCIO is an editor and an educator at the Architectural Association in London. Her writings on historical as well as emerging modes of practice have featured on Architectural Design, AA Files, and Blueprint, and in the books Real Estates: Life Without Debt (2014) and Erasmus Effect (2014).