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05/20/2025
What if architecture looked backward, not forward?
In Sub-Urbanism and the Art of Memory, Sébastien Marot argues that the architectural project should begin not with a brief, but with the site—read in depth and through the lens of memory. This compelling manifesto draws on Freud’s metaphor of the city as memory, Frances Yates’ mnemonic imagination, and Georges Descombes’ park in suburban Geneva, weaving together intellectual insight and spatial storytelling.
Originally published in 2003, this Architectural Association School of Architecture documents re-edition revives Marot’s timely message for today’s architects and urbanists: reframe your work through memory to renew your approach to design.
Edited by Dr Kristina Rapacki, Anna Lisa Reynolds, and Max Z.. Designed by George Haughton and Sascha Lobe.
Published by Architectural Association Publications
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Sub-Urbanism and the Art of Memory - 20,00€ - - Actar Publishers - 20,00€ - Sébastien Marot This book is a sub-urbanist manifesto. Its author, Sébastien Marot, challenges the dominant role of the programme in regulating the design project, and argues that instead attention should be redirected towards the site – the site read in depth, with an active regard...
04/11/2025
Can matter become a political force in design?
Matter Matters dives into the ecological, social, and philosophical dimensions of materials. Structured around eight material categories—from digital to microbiological—it reflects on design’s potential to transform our world.
Featuring over 500 objects from the Museo del Disseny-DHUB and contributions from thinkers like Karen Barad, Benjamin Bratton, and Timothy Morton, the book challenges us to reconsider what materials mean in a society working toward carbon neutrality.
Edited by Olga Subirós. Designed by Alex Gifreu.
Published by Actar Publishers and Barcelona.cat.
Available in English, Spanish and Catalan: https://actar.com/product/matter-matters-eng-ed/
03/26/2024
Join us at Fabricate conference 2024, hosted at CITA, Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark from April 4th to 6th, 2024!
Since its inception, FABRICATE has been a global platform fostering discussions on revolutionary opportunities in design, manufacturing, computation, material science, and assembly. With past conferences in London, Zurich, Stuttgart, and online, FABRICATE has welcomed thousands of international delegates, showcasing only the most innovative projects.
This year, FABRICATE 2024, co-chaired by Professors Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Phil Ayres, promises to extend its legacy of pushing the boundaries of architectural production. With a focus on computational design, sustainability, and resource consciousness, FABRICATE 2024 seeks to challenge the norms of the AEC industry and explore new paradigms in architecture.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to engage in discussions, share insights, and witness radical departures in architectural design and fabrication. Let's rethink how we design and make architecture for a more sustainable and inclusive future!
For more information and registration, visit www.fabricate.org. See you there!
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Actar is focused on the works and research of established and emerging practitioners, professors, and thinkers such as Charles Waldheim, Neil Brenner, Kiel Moe, Abalos+Sentkiewicz, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, AKTII, Farshid Moussavi, Lateral Office, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, ODA, nArchitects, LAN, Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy, Daniel Ibàñez, Mimi Zeiger, among others.
Actar also participates in publishing the periodicals Bracket, New Geographies, and Kerb, documenting issues overlooked yet central to our cultural milieu. These publications have evolved out of the new disciplinary territory at the intersection of architecture, landscape, environment, and digital culture. Since 2015, Actar’s new digital platform urbanNext
has shaped and expanded architecture and design practices to rethink cities.
Through urbanNext, Actar is producing new tools for its global dissemination with new impulses, new proposals, and new goals to expand architecture publishing. As an example of this very successful symbiosis between printed and digital contents, we have partnered with the first Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017 “Imminent Commons,” which has resulted in the publication of four books as well as a vast amount of videos, essays and projects at www.urbanNext.net.
