Table of Contents

About the Editor 4
Neil Spiller

Introduction 6

The Next Generation

Circling the Table
Neil Spiller

The Magic of Asking ‘What if?’ 14

Radical Architectural Pedagogy
Elena Manferdini

Some Colours 24

Unravelling Thesis Constructions
Perry Kulper

Accelerating Towards Abundance 34

Planetary Strategies in the Era of the Anthropocene
Evan Douglis

Disciplinary Displacements 44

The Revaluation of Conventions through the Postgraduate Thesis
Michael Young

A Canvas on which to Feast 52

A Canadian Adventure
Neil Spiller

Making the Means to Draw Out Ideas 60
Nat Chard

Project Documentaries 68

The Rise of the Cinematic Portfolio
Mark Morris

Post-Operative ‘Post-isms’ 76

Details of the 21st-Century Educations of Architecturalists
Mark Garcia

Drawing on Situational Sites 86
Riet Eeckhout

Building the Future with Architecture 96
Nicolas Hannequin

Re-envisioning Healthcare Urbanism and Architecture 104
Hani Rashid

New Melbourne Pedagogics 112

A Virtual Web of Actions
Jane Burry

The Allegorical Architectural Project 120

Provocateurs, Propositions and Confrontations
Daniel K Brown

From Another Perspective 128

Going Underground

Rick Gooding
Neil Spiller

Contributors 134

About the Author

NEIL SPILLER is Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, London, prior to this he was Dean of the School of Architecture, Design and Construction and Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory. Before this he was Vice-Dean and Graduate Director of Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL). Neil has guest-edited 7 titles of AD including the highly successful Architects in Cyberspace I and II (1995, 1998), Protocell Architecture (2011) and Drawing Architecture (2013). He is a member of the AD Editorial Board. He has also published books with Thames and Hudson, as author of Visionary Architecture-Blueprints of the Modern Imagination (2006), Digital Architecture Now (2008) and as co-editor of Educating Architects (2014).