The Hybrid Practitioner

Exploring different, interrelated roles for the architect and researcher
The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural and scholarly production of academia and the process of designing and building in the material world. It proposes the concept of the hybrid practitioner, who bridges the gap between academia and practice by considering how different aspects of architectural practice, theory, and history intersect, opening up a fascinating array of possibilities for an active engagement with the present. The book explores different, interrelated roles for practicing architects and researchers, from the reproductive activities of teaching, consulting and publishing, through the reflective activities of drawing and writing, to the practice of building.

The notion of the hybrid practitioner will appeal strongly to students, teachers and architectural practitioners as part of a multifaceted professional environment. By connecting academic interests with those of the professional realm, The Hybrid Practitioner addresses a wider readership embracing landscape design, art theory and aesthetics, European history, and the history and sociology of professions.

Contributors: Joseph Bedford, Luis Burriel Bielza, Philip Christou, Elke Couchez, Thomas Coward, Jana Culek, Irina Davidovici, Rosamund Diamond, Christoph Grafe, Simon Henley, Julia Jamrozik, Sepideh Karami, Pauline Lefebvre, Birgitte Louise Hansen, Patrick Lynch, Sereh Mandias, Louis Mayes, Carlo Menon, Marjan Michels, Cathelijne Nuijsink, Paulo Providência, Sophia Psarra, Helen Thomas, Steven Schenk, Eireen Schreurs, Eva Storgaard, Caroline Voet, Wilfried Wang.

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This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Introduction Helen Thomas, Caroline Voet, Eireen Schreurs
Roles and Challenges of the Hybrid Practitioner Eireen Schreurs, Eva Storgaard, Marjan Michels
PART 1: The Practice Perspective and Its Framework
Chapter 1 Hybrid Practices: A Few Thoughts on Organic Intellectuals in Architecture Christoph Grafe
Chapter 2 The Discipline of Concept and the Judgement of the Eye: Pedigrees of Form in Architectural Practice Irina Davidovici
Chapter 3 Values in the Making: Observing Architects Crafting Their Discourse Pauline Lefebvre
Chapter 4 Notes on Interpretation: Analysing Architecture from the Perspective of a Reflective Practitioner Birgitte Louise Hansen
Chapter 5 The Building within the City: Contingency and Autonomy in Architectural Design and Research Sophia Psarra
Chapter 6 Architects Who Read, ILAUD, and Reading as Direct Experience Elke Couchez
PART 2: Reciprocal Negotiations: Teaching Architecture
Chapter 7 Lost and Found: Intuition and Precision into Architectural Design, Studio Structural Contingencies KU Leuven, 2016–2021 Caroline Voet, Steven Schenk
Chapter 8 Architecture from Drawing: A Brief Inquiry into Three Types Rosamund Diamond
Chapter 9 Time in Unit 9: A Comparison between the Projected Life of the Drawing, the Residues of Living, and Lived Experience Tom Coward
Chapter 10 A Dialectical Sketch: The ARU Studio by Florian Beigel and Philip Christou, London, 2000–2018 Louis Mayes, Philip Christou
Chapter 11 The Building Is Present: The 1:5 Model as a Way of Seeing, TU Delft, Chair Buildings, Interiors, Cities, 2018–2019 Sereh Mandias
PART 3: Different Worlds and Other Places
Chapter 12 The Mysteries Encountered When Finding Reality Helen Thomas
Chapter 13 Starting from the Mess: The “Environment-Worlds” of Architectural Research and Design Sepideh Karami
Chapter 14 Examining Utopias: Comparative Scales as a Transdisciplinary Research Method Jana Culek
Chapter 15 Growing Up Modern: Lessons from Childhoods in Iconic Homes Julia Jamrozik
PART 4: Stepping Back from the Object
Chapter 16 Rem Koolhaas’s House with No Style: The 1992 Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition Cathelijne Nuijsink
Chapter 17 Instagram, Indifference, and Postcritique in US Architectural Discourse Joseph Bedford
Chapter 18 Being-With/A Tacit Alliance: Architecture, Publishing, and the Poetic Reciprocity of Civic Culture Patrick Lynch
Chapter 19 Agency and Critical Editorial Devices in Recent Little Architecture Magazines Carlo Menon
PART 5: The Values of the Object
Chapter 20 Understanding Architecture Wilfried Wang
Chapter 21 Tracing Álvaro Siza’s Traces: To Fabricate A Construction of Time Paulo Providência
Chapter 22 Drawing as a Research Tool: The Case Of Villa Dall’Ava Luis Burriel-Bielza
Chapter 23 Facade Studies Simon Henley
About the Authors

Caroline Voet

Caroline Voet is an architect (VOET architecten) and professor of Architecture and Design at KU Leuven.

Eireen Schreurs

Eireen Schreurs is an architect, teacher and researcher at Delft University, KU Leuven and the University of Antwerp.

Helen Thomas

Helen Thomas is a writer, publisher, architect and senior research fellow at ETH Zurich.