Architects After Architecture maps forty practitioners who have taken architectural training into unexpected territory — from climate advocacy and refugee work to tech startups, museum curation, and public policy — reframing the discipline as a mode of acting on the world, not merely building in it.
About This Book
The question of what architecture can do — beyond the production of buildings — has never been more urgent. Edited by Harriet Harriss, Rory Hyde, and Roberta Maraccio, this volume assembles forty practitioners whose careers demonstrate the discipline's reach across sectors and scales. Through profiles, case studies, and interviews, the book refuses the narrow equation of architectural training with architectural practice. For students weighing their futures, and for registered architects reconsidering their trajectories, it presents alternative pathways not as compromise but as expansion — a discipline engaging seriously with housing inequality, climate crisis, digital culture, and institutional power. An essential reference for anyone thinking critically about the scope of contemporary practice.
Key Features
- 320 pages of practitioner profiles, case studies, and interviews across forty subjects
- Edited by Harriet Harriss, Rory Hyde, and Roberta Maraccio
- Published by Routledge, ISBN 9780367441210
What You'll Discover
- How architects are applying spatial thinking to refugee advocacy, homelessness policy, and diversity in the built environment professions
- The role architectural training plays in founding technology companies and designing videogames — disciplines rarely mapped onto formal practice
- How practitioners have moved into museum curation, public policy, and property development while drawing directly on their architectural formation
- A collective argument for expanding the limits of the discipline at a moment when the complexity of global crises demands new forms of professional engagement
About the Author
The volume is co-edited by Harriet Harriss, Rory Hyde, and Roberta Maraccio. Rory Hyde is an architecture critic, curator, and co-editor whose engagement with the discipline's boundaries has been explored through events including an in-store conversation at Bookshop by Uro.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 320
- Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780367441210
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architecture students weighing careers beyond conventional practice, registered architects considering a change in direction, and educators interested in expanding how the discipline is taught and understood.