Towards a Complete Architecture
The Big Rethink: Transcend And include The Past
Major regenerative change provoked by crisis involves both a leap forward and a reappraisal and integration of the best of the past - a process known in Integral theory as ‘transcend and include’. The quest for sustainability has also given rise to a new interest in vernacular forms of construction and placemaking, and the lessons they might have for current architecture
The Big Rethink: The Purposes of Architecture
In common with many aspects of modern civilisation, architecture has lost its enriching sense of purpose, leading to toxic anomie. In seeking to restore architecture’s rightful place in culture, as a truly qualitatively and quantifiably sustainable art, we must look deeper and redefine what it is to be human and what sort of lives we want to lead. In this, Integral theory offers a means of rebalancing and reconnecting with deeper transcendent meaning and purpose
The Big Rethink: Integral Theory
In the third installment of the AR’s campaign, Peter Buchanan introduces Integral theory, which establishes a new framework for the design of 21st-century buildings and cities
THE BIG RETHINK: Farewell to modernism − and modernity too
The second essay in the new Campaign decries Modernism for its betrayal of our essential humanity, and puts the case for why this must be regained to achieve true sustainability. In an emerging epoch based on a vision of a ‘living, organic universe’, architecture must start again to mediate our relations between nature, place and community.
The Big Rethink: Towards a Complete Architecture
AR’s new campagn is launched with a critical broadside at the many “Starchitects” of the industry from Peter Buchanan
Welcome to the Big Rethink
In response to the current global ecological and economic crises, this seems a timely moment to reconsider all aspects of architecture and catalyse new cultural and intellectual approaches to issues of sustainability, urbanism and education. Over the next 12 months, the AR will publish essays on various topics of critical concern with the aim of stimulating new thinking and combative debate.
Catherine Slessor, Editor
Around the Campaign
Reality Bytes: THE DigitalLY-MEDIATED Urban REVOLUTIONS
Digital media plays an important role in the galvanisation of social movements, says social scientist Merlyna Lim, but can it ever supplant urban space?
Future Frontiers RCA/AR Lectures: Humanity
The filmed RCA/AR lecture series raises questions on humanity
Integral Plaudits: widening sustainability
Mark DeKay’s book on integral sustainable design commends a multi-dimensional approach to change
Psychology of urban neighbourhoods
Clinical psychiatrist Mindy Thompson Fullilove advocates mending the fracture between rich and poor communities
Ushering in a third industrial revolution
Ecconomic crisis as a hangover from century-old break-throughs that today inhibit personal agency
Liberating Science from pervading materialism
Today’s architectural practice is profoundly shaped by dogma that has dominated science since the late 19th Century and yet this influence remains largely unquestioned within the profession.
Your Views
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AR Reader's call for the practical application of theory
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The Good Life and The Big Rethink
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Big reply to The Big Rethink
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Michael Badu's qualified support for The Big Rethink
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Kevin Rhowbotham critiques The Big Rethink
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AR reader Michael Badu responds to The Big Rethink
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AR Readers respond to The Big Rethink
