Architectural Design 96.2: Chimera

Name: Architectural Design 96.2: Chimera
ISBN: 9798994298213

Release Date:: 31 May 2026
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ISBN:: 9798994298213

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Are utopias still necessary-and if so, for whom? 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. In this climate-where techno¿optimism competes with ecological despair-it seems easier to picture the end of everything than the transformation of anything. The system endures because it convinces us that change itself is impossible. This issue of AD intervenes precisely there. It 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 the more-than-human. Contributors navigate this shifting terrain from a range of vantages-from those who embrace technological acceleration as an instrument of renewal to others whose address to futurity is aimed at resisting the exhausted capitalist logics of the present. Across these positions, utopia emerges as an operative framework for projecting alternative futures and expanding our sense of the possible. Here, architecture's task is not merely to shape space, but to construct worlds capacious enough to hold complexity-and to sustain coexistence amidst crisis.

ISBN 9798994298213