As the growing complexity of our world presents us with ever-growing challenges at an unprecedented speed, our built environment has become one of our society’s most critical questions. From energy scarcity to inequality, density, diversity, waste, food production, circular economy, and identity—it all converges into the built environment. To face this, architecture needs to evolve and scale.
During the last century, our profession has followed a linear evolution since the breakthrough of modernism, but the growing pressures have laid out the perfect scenario to push architecture to take its next leap. We see an increasing number of architects questioning the way we organize and practice, seeking to have a wider, stronger, faster, and more scalable impact. And they are choosing to do things in a new way, creating new practices, companies, collectives, or startups that are leading the revolution with their new approaches, proposals, and solutions, and inspiring others to join.
Through the blurry boundary that has become the former hard limit of the discipline, architecture is now opening. From one side it is branching out into other industries, taking what we call architectural thinking (abstraction, holistic overview, interdependence, collaboration, problem-solving, spatial approach) to solve new problems. But on the other hand, this opening is allowing an ever-growing number of people who want to be part of the revolution of the built environment, but who don’t necessarily have a formal background in architecture.
For the third consecutive year, ArchDaily will once again do a global survey to detect and showcase those who are taking architecture in its new direction. We invite all architects, architecture offices, design practices, buildtech startups, curators, exhibition designers, collectives, interior designers, software developers, material scientists, new media platforms, think tanks, entrepreneurs, critical writers, activists, performers, media designers, landscape architects, and anyone who feels part of the previous statement, whose work is in an early or developed stage, but with a clear mission. For this call, new doesn’t necessarily mean young, but innovative, fresh and forward-thinking.
Source: https://www.archdaily.com/991365/the-archdaily-2022-new-practices-is-now-open-for-submissions
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