Exploring different, interrelated roles for the architect and researcher The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural and scholarly production of academia and the process of designing and building in the material world. It proposes the concept of the hybrid practitioner, who bridges the gap between academia and practice by considering how different aspects of architectural practice, theory, and history intersect, opening up a fascinating array of possibilities for an active engagement with the present. The book explores different, interrelated roles for practicing architects and researchers, from the reproductive activities of teaching, consulting and publishing, through the reflective activities of drawing and writing, to the practice of building. The notion of the hybrid practitioner will appeal strongly to students, teachers and architectural practitioners as part of a multifaceted professional environment. By connecting academic interests with those of the professional realm, The Hybrid Practitioner addresses a wider readership embracing landscape design, art theory and aesthetics, European history, and the history and sociology of professions. The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural and scholarly production of academia and the process of designing and building in the material world. It proposes the concept of the hybrid practitioner, who bridges the gap between academia and practice by considering how different aspects of architectural practice, theory, and history intersect, opening up a fascinating array of possibilities for an active engagement with the present. The book explores different, interrelated roles for practicing architects and researchers, from the reproductive activities of teaching, consulting and publishing, through the reflective activities of drawing and writing, to the practice of building. The notion of the hybrid practitioner will appeal strongly to students, teachers and architectural practitioners as part of a multifaceted professional environment. By connecting academic interests with those of the professional realm, The Hybrid Practitioner addresses a wider readership embracing landscape design, art theory and aesthetics, European history, and the history and sociology of professions. Introduction Helen Thomas, Caroline Voet, Eireen Schreurs Roles and Challenges of the Hybrid Practitioner Eireen Schreurs, Eva Storgaard, Marjan Michels PART 1: The Practice Perspective and Its Framework Chapter 1 Hybrid Practices: A Few Thoughts on Organic Intellectuals in Architecture Christoph Grafe Chapter 2 The Discipline of Concept and the Judgement of the Eye: Pedigrees of Form in Architectural Practice Irina Davidovici Chapter 3 Values in the Making: Observing Architects Crafting Their Discourse Pauline Lefebvre Chapter 4 Notes on Interpretation: Analysing Architecture from the Perspective of a Reflective Practitioner Birgitte Louise Hansen Chapter 5 The Building within the City: Contingency and Autonomy in Architectural Design and Research Sophia Psarra Chapter 6 Architects Who Read, ILAUD, and Reading as Direct Experience Elke Couchez PART 2: Reciprocal Negotiations: Teaching Architecture Chapter 7 Lost and Found: Intuition and Precision into Architectural Design, Studio Structural Contingencies KU Leuven, 2016–2021 Caroline Voet, Steven Schenk Chapter 8 Architecture from Drawing: A Brief Inquiry into Three Types Rosamund Diamond Chapter 9 Time in Unit 9: A Comparison between the Projected Life of the Drawing, the Residues of Living, and Lived Experience Tom Coward Chapter 10 A Dialectical Sketch: The ARU Studio by Florian Beigel and Philip Christou, London, 2000–2018 Louis Mayes, Philip Christou Chapter 11 The Building Is Present: The 1:5 Model as a Way of Seeing, TU Delft, Chair Buildings, Interiors, Cities, 2018–2019 Sereh Mandias PART 3: Different Worlds and Other Places Chapter 12 The Mysteries Encountered When Finding Reality Helen Thomas Chapter 13 Starting from the Mess: The “Environment-Worlds” of Architectural Research and Design Sepideh Karami Chapter 14 Examining Utopias: Comparative Scales as a Transdisciplinary Research Method Jana Culek Chapter 15 Growing Up Modern: Lessons from Childhoods in Iconic Homes Julia Jamrozik PART 4: Stepping Back from the Object Chapter 16 Rem Koolhaas’s House with No Style: The 1992 Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition Cathelijne Nuijsink Chapter 17 Instagram, Indifference, and Postcritique in US Architectural Discourse Joseph Bedford Chapter 18 Being-With/A Tacit Alliance: Architecture, Publishing, and the Poetic Reciprocity of Civic Culture Patrick Lynch Chapter 19 Agency and Critical Editorial Devices in Recent Little Architecture Magazines Carlo Menon PART 5: The Values of the Object Chapter 20 Understanding Architecture Wilfried Wang Chapter 21 Tracing Álvaro Siza’s Traces: To Fabricate A Construction of Time Paulo Providência Chapter 22 Drawing as a Research Tool: The Case Of Villa Dall’Ava Luis Burriel-Bielza Chapter 23 Facade Studies Simon Henley About the Authors