BOOK:The Other Architect, CCA Publications

The Other Architect presents 23 case studies that emphasize the potential for architecture to identify the urgent issues of our time. These international and often multidisciplinary groups, with examples from the 1960s to today, invented and adopted new methods outside of traditional design practices in order to create architecture without building.

By Dimitris Lempesis

The publication “The Other Architect” accompanies the homonymous exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. The exhibition examines the question “What kinds of approaches do architects invent and appropriate to reflect on their ideas outside of traditional design practices?” Considering case studies from the 1960s to today, this annotated collection of primary documents presents evidence of experimental venues, methods, and tools that architects have used to research and shape the urgent issues of their time. Edited by Giovanna Borasi and designed by Jonathan Hares, the 414-page, 24 x 31 cm book includes over 250 facsimiles of letters, drawings, transcripts, memos, financial plans, and manifestos; evidence of the processes architects use to shape ideas, these are reproduced at full size and with minimal annotation to encourage absorption in the material.