Alternative Futures is an ongoing editorial project exploring long-term cultural questions in architecture through themes and collective contributions. It is shaped by the space between teaching, research, and practice.

Strategic Design for Future Building explored architecture as a strategic practice. Through research and design, the unit investigated how architects construct futures by aligning spatial, social, and cultural intentions with long-term change.

The workshop examined colour as a structural device within architecture, a system for organising hierarchy, perception, and material relationships. Participants explored hue, value, and chroma to understand how colour can clarify spatial logic and strengthen architectural coherence.

I Think We’re Alone Now explored architecture as a serial framework. Through research and design in Johannesburg, the unit examined how repetition, variation, and sequence could create adaptable systems for social and spatial transformation.

Love Will Tear Us Apart examined how small moments can generate systemic change. Through research and design in Mexico City, the unit explored architecture as a framework where temporary acts produce lasting cultural and spatial transformation.

The AAO’s Design Matters Conference in Chicago gathered institutions and studios to examine public engagement in architecture, where the studio contributed a perspective on authorship, collaboration, and evolving models of practice.

This 2016 lecture at the AA explores the transition from large-scale practice to independent authorship, tracing how teaching, mixed-media enquiry, and process-driven design shaped a studio grounded in clarity, intent, and architectural precision.

Developed within Intermediate Unit 12 at the Architectural Association, Happening Architecture examined architecture as a temporal framework. The brief explored how events, participation, and performance could shape spatial systems and define lasting cultural and urban legacies.

Amid the saturation of digital culture, this essay examines how architects can filter, compose, and give form to the world’s visual overflow, treating “stuff” as both material and medium. Originally published in AArchitecture 19 (Architectural Association, 2013).