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The Power of Architecture: Transhistorical Dimensions and Contemporary Parameters
Back to Writings The Power of Architecture:Transhistorical Dimensions and Contemporary ParametersPatik Schumacher, London 2025Published in: Tai Lee Siang & Ong Eng Hong (eds), The Power of Design and AI Convergence,CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 2025 AbstractThis paper articulates the foundational societal role of architecture as the spatial framework that…
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AI Productivity and Creativity
Back to Writings AI Productivity and CreativityPatrik SchumacherPublished in: Williams, A.(ed), Five Critical Essays on AI, TRG Publishing, London 2025 There is a lot of ambivalence in architecture, as well as in society at large, about the effects of Artificial Intelligence. For me and my firm the advent of AI…
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DEI’s Time of Reckoning
Back to Writings DEI’s Time of ReckoningPatrik Schumacher, London 2025Afterword to Five Critical Essays on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Architecture,Edited by Austin Williams,TRG Publishing, London 2025 This collection of essay offers a timely critical engagement with an ideology and ideological practice – DEI – that has in recent years…
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The End of Architecture
Back to Writings The End of ArchitecturePatrik Schumacher, London, January 2025 Published in: KHOREIN – Journal for Architecture and Philosophy, Vol 2, No 2 (2024): END ABSTRACT: Architecture, as an autonomous, theory-led discipline, has ceased to exist. This paper posits the “end of architecture” not as rhetorical hyperbole but as…
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Beauty
Back to Writings BeautyThe indispensable category explained, justified and critically employedPatrik Schumacher, Tongji, Shanghai 2024 Published in: Architectural Intelligence, Springer Nature, November 2024 Abstract: Beauty as the manifestation of aesthetic responses and valuations is a human universal. All societies operate with (a version of) the category of beauty. We all…
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A Smart Paradigm for Participatory Urban Design
Back to Writings A Smart Paradigm for Participatory Urban DesignPatrik Schumacher & Shajay Booshan Published in: The Routledge Companion to Smart Design Thinking in Architecture & Urbanismedited by Mitra Kanaani for Routledge Companion series, Routledge, London & New York 2025 Abstract: This paper describes, illustrates, and discusses the idea of…
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Wellbeing via Architecture?
Back to Writings Wellbeing via Architecture?Patrik Schumacher, London 2024 Published in: Five Critical Essays on Wellbeing, TRG Publishing, London 2024 Is Wellbeing just the latest vacuous fad in architecture? Is it, as Reinier de Graaf argues in his recent book “architect, verb” on “the new language of building”, part and…
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Ethical Self-Determination Against the Grain
Back to Writings Ethical self-determination against the grainPatrik Schumacher, London 2024 Afterword to Five Critical Essays on Architectural Ethics, Austin Williams (Editor), TRG Publishing, London 2024 This group of essays goes against the grain of the increasingly moralising tendency in our discipline. This tendency echoes a general societal trend, imposing…
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Beauty Explained
Back to Writings Beauty ExplainedPatrik Schumacher, London 2023 Published in: ‘Five Critical essays on Beauty’ Edited by Austin Williams and Patrik Schumacher, Machine Books, London, Fall 2023 Beauty as the manifestation of aesthetic responses and valuations is a human universal. We all navigate the world aesthetically. Therefore, beauty should be…
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A Realist Conception of Architecture in the Metaverse
Back to Writings A Realist Conception of Architecture in the MetaversePatrik Schumacher, London 2022 Published in: Vahid Vahdat & James F. Korestes (eds), Architecture, Film and the In-between – Spatio-Cinematic Betwixt, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2023 Abstract: Spatiology, phenomenology, semiology and dramaturgy identify and define central aspects of…