Global/Local: Symposium to celebrate the launch of P.E.A.R.: Paper for Emerging Architectural Research, Issue VIII.

An Atlas of Global and Local Imaginaries presents:   Global/Local: Symposium to celebrate the launch of P.E.A.R.: Paper for Emerging Architectural Research, Issue VIII.  19th November  18:30-20:00 (C.E.T), 05:30-07:00 (GMT), 02:30 – 04:00 20th November (K.S.T). Zoom link will be released on the day at: https://futureschool.kr/en/an-atlas-of-global-and-local-imaginaries  To celebrate the launch of Issue 8 of the architectural…

From Issue VI: FleaFollyArchitects’ Grimm City

2012 marked the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales. To celebrate this occasion FleaFollyArchitects, over the space of 5 weeks, ran a small summer atelier on the outskirts of the Black Forest in Germany. As a group of young architects and designers they planned and built the ‘Grimm City’ -…

P.E.A.R. No. 8: Now Available

Our latest issue can now be purchased from our stockists. P.E.A.R.: Paper for Emerging Architectural Research relaunches with an issue looking at the theme of the local and the global. Contributors: Max Wisotsky, Ana Monrabal-Cook & Cameron Overy, Stephen Graham, Matthew Turner, Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, Alejandro Haiek Coll, Unknown Fields, Maj Plemenitas, Shahed Saleem and…

From Issue III: Post Works’/Matthew Butcher Studio’s Writtle Calling.

Concept Perspective Writtle Calling is a temporary radio station, designed in collaboration with ARUP Engineers, to be sited in the grounds of Writtle College in Essex. The area holds importance in radio history as the first site of public radio broadcasts by Marconi Engineers. In 1922, every Tuesday evening, a live performance was broadcast under…

From Issue III: Geoff Shearcroft / AOC’s ‘Domestic Discovery or Sampling and Synthesising with Daft Punk’

Hearth House. Photographed by David Grandorge For  most of its history architecture has been a referential  art, its protagonists sampling elements from existing buildings and synthesising them into new combinations.  At some point in the 20th century this approach was deemed unacceptable by the architectural establishment. The modern masters kept their historical samples quiet and…

Out Now: Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice: Curated Works from the P.E.A.R. Journal

Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice: Curated Works from the P.E.A.R. Journal Edited by Matthew Butcher and Megan O'Shea Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice presents a selection of essays, architectural experiments and works that explore the diversity within the fields of contemporary architectural practice and discourse. Specific in this selection is the…

P.E.A.R. Issue No. 8: Global/Local

P.E.A.R.: Paper for Emerging Architectural Research Issue No. 8: Local/Global Contributors: Max Wisotsky, Ana Monrabal-Cook & Cameron Overy, Stephen Graham, Matthew Turner, Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, Alejandro Haiek Coll, Unknown Fields, Maj Plemenitas, Shahed Saleem and John Jordan P.E.A.R.: Paper for Emerging Architectural Research relaunches with an issue looking at the theme of the local and…

P.E.A.R. is back

P.E.A.R.: Paper for Emerging Architectural Research. After quietly disappearing in 2014, following the release of our seventh issue, titled ‘Meaning in Material’, P.E.A.R. is relaunching with a new editorial team. In the coming weeks we’ll be announcing our first publication with UCL Press alongside our eighth issue, which looks at the theme of the local…