Architectural Design 96.2: Chimera - by Damjan Jovanovic & Ashley Simone & Elena Manferdini & Hen Stanford (Paperback)

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Book Synopsis A timely issue of Architectural Design that positions architecture's project as world-construction Fifty years ago, architects imagined worlds to come. Today, many have ceded the future to market logic, treating global capitalism as inevitable and reality as fixed. This issue of Architectural Design argues that when collective imagination falters, the utopian impulse returns--not as a blueprint for perfection, but as a vital means of reopening what can still be conceived and made. As planetary computation, climate instability and synthetic cognition converge, utopia becomes a tool for speculative world?building: a way to design new systems, realities and relationalities with t…