Strategic Architecture: How To Rethink The Architecture of Bureaucracy
Join us for a lecture by Finn Williams exploring how building standards, procurement processes and legal agreements which can at first seem like constraints to the architects’ creativity can become fields for critical and creative practices
Join us for a lecture by Finn Williams exploring how building standards, procurement processes or legal agreements which can at first seem like constraints to the architects’ creativity can become fields for critical and creative practices
About Finn Williams
Finn Williams is the City Architect of Malmö. He was co-founder and former CEO of Public Practice and previously worked for the Office of Metropolitan Architecture.
About Strategic Architecture: An Evening School
Architecture has always been less a sovereign art than a gathering of itinerant techniques: the survey drafted for empire, the map drawn for taxation, the diagram lifted from cosmology, the projection honed in the painter’s studio, assembled for a time in the service of building.
Yet, in the past decade, these instruments have begun to drift once more, resurfacing as evidentiary devices in courts and media (forensic architecture), as diagrammatic engines in ministries and agencies (strategic architecture), and as speculative projections in galleries and laboratories (speculative architecture), no longer tethered to construction but redirected toward truth, action and imagination.
From August onwards CAFx’ evening school follows that migration in its strategic inflection, asking what becomes of architecture when the diagram ceases to prefigure form and instead structures deliberation, negotiates trade-offs, and scripts the conditions under which collective decisions are made.
