Architecture from Public to Commons

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This book provides an urgent framework and collective reflection on understanding; ways to reconsider and recast architecture within ideas and politics of the commons and; practices of commoning.; Architecture from Public to Commons opens with Institutions the dialogue with the; scales of the commons; the limits of language for fluid identities; the practices and; challenges of architecture as an institution; the design of objects with apparent shared; value in Chile; land protocols that explore alternatives to profit-seeking of property in; New York; and spirited conversations about revolting against architectural labor from; Latin America. Continuing chapters explore; under Territories; the boundaries of; Blackness across the Atlantic between Ethiopia and Atlanta; the underground woven; network with conflicting grounds of ipê wood between Brazil and the US; water; cycles in depleted territories in Chile; indigenous women-led territorial and human; rights struggles in Guatemala; climate change accidental commons in California; and the active search for racial justice between design and place in New Orleans.; Contributions range from theoretical and historical essays to current case studies of; on-the-ground practices in the US; the Middle East; Europe; and Central and South; America.; Bringing together architects; scholars; artists; historians; sociologists; curators; and; activists; this book instils an urgent framework and renewed set of tools to pivot from; architecture’s traditional public to a politicized commons. It will greatly interest students; academics; and researchers in architecture; urban design; architectural theory; landscape; architecture; political economy; and sociology