Keynote

Since 2015, each issue of the AR has opened with a ‘keynote’ essay – whether framing the relationship of the issue’s theme to architecture, examining it as it sits in a broader global context, or exploring the significance of its relevance today, the keynote sets the tone for the issue to follow

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Unmaking rooms: beyond the box
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Concrete ceiling: decarbonising the planet’s most consumed human-made material
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Depth unknown: archaeology of resistance
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Surveillance space: urban infrastructures of control
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In what style should we repair?
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Art house: step inside the artist’s realm
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Where to begin: ‘I started with coffee and cities’
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Experimental Saharanism: exploiting desert environments
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Property values: the enclosure of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Demolish nothing: densifying the built environment through accretion
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Planting a seed: bio-based building
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Follow the money: building the museum
Architecture is climate diagram by MOULD

Architecture criticism against the climate clock
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Inter section: systemic inequalities in architecture
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Together we build: organising architectural labour
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Room of one's own: the construction of a home
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Put into practice: collective imagination
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Form follows fuel: energy-hungry architecture
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Pedagogies of power: education within and without the institution
Market traders in Salatiga, Indonesia

Publicity: commoning as an act of survival
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French connection: after the Pritzker winners
Drawing showing an early production line at Amour Company's pig slaughterhouse in Chicago

Lost in transit: interruptions in global networks
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Stone age: a new architecture from an old material
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Home bodies: reconfigurations of the nuclear home
Dovecotes in Cappadocia

Animal infrastructures: building across species
The Rotating Kitchen, 2009, Zeger Reyers

Kitchen debate: where labour and leisure collide
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Plantationocene: when trees are worth more dead than alive
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Right to light: illuminating the city
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Fragment of the imagination: assembling new narratives from old
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Wasteocene: the dirty architecture of progress
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Family matters: in the bubble of the nuclear household
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Gardeners’ world: a short history of domestication and nurturance

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Tomorrow’s world: nurturing young talent and voices
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Lost property: the continuing violence of improvement
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Open letter: privacy and publicity in other people’s post
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Selecting, visiting, and publishing buildings: the state of criticism
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Tourist trap: looking to travel from afar
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In praise of darkness, a waning reserve
Genius and gender index

The gender of genius
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Inhabiting the earth: a new history of raw earth architecture
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Experimental preservation: challenging what we keep and why
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Critical Regionalism for our time

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Building Brazil: from the Cariocas to the Paulistas to the now
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On the money: the merits of degrowth

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Identity check: slow architecture grows on the islands of Ireland
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The lie of the line: pulling at the invisible edges of periphery
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The ocean's skin: tales of dominion and defeat
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Body unbuilding: on cuts, stitching and anarchitecture
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A losing game: harnessing failure
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Temples of ignorance: boundaries blur between book collections and the buildings that house them

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Triple Dutch: while the Superdutch play abroad, what's happening at home?
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Hungry for change: cities don't feed themselves
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Farewell to architecture: contrasts and common ground in Flanders and Wallonia
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The furniturisation of architecture: from St Jerome in his study to built-in cupboards and summer pavilions
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Building justice: On the spatial dimension of justice and law
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Pleasure principles: on the homogenisation of the modern city
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Reinventing the rural: a new perspective on our countryside
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Only resist: a feminist approach to critical spatial practice

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