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The Invention of Modern Design – The Early Years of the German Werkbund
Back to Writings The Invention of Modern Design – The Early Years of the German Werkbund, Khorein Book Series, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade 2026 The cultural, economic, and political role of the German Werkbund in the German Empire leading up to the First World War raises many…
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Urban Over-regulation Paralysis
Back to Writings Urban Over-regulation ParalysisPatrik Schumacher, London 2026Published in: Austin Williams (Ed.), Five Critical Essays on Over-regulation, TRG Publishing, London 2026 The unmitigated housing crisis gripping Britain is not a failure of markets but the most visible consequence of their suspension. Since the Town and Country Planning Act 1947,…
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The Power of Architecture: Transhistorical Dimensions and Contemporary Parameters
Back to Writings The Power of Architecture:Transhistorical Dimensions and Contemporary ParametersPatrik 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…