Series: Construction and Design Manual

An in-depth look at how tent cities and containers could possibly be the best short-term housing solution for displaced persons. In common with politicians, architects were caught unawares by the largest wave of migration since the end of the Second World War. From eccentric experiments all the way to projects that have already been realised, international design teams present their...

In the last few decades, the diagram has evolved into a constitutive, generative medium for the architectural design process and is now an everyday term used in the context of design. The diagram represents an imaginative process that enables architects to transform typologies, figures, and models using analogue and digital design procedures. This process is creative and erratic — it...