Intersections Between the Academy and Practice

Apparatus X: Designing an Architecturefor Civic Engagement

Intersections Proceedings

Author(s): Aaron Wertman, Marcus Shaffer & James Kalsbeek

Typically defined as one who uses design as tools for political change, immediate response, and/or design-as-reaction, an activist architect can be more simply described as one who takes architectural practice with him/ her,
commits to a community, and engages with that community’s building needs — as rejuvenation, or in more extreme cases, as response to disaster caused by war, weather, or economics.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AIA.Inter.15.7

Volume Editors
Gregory Kessler & Stephen Vogel

ISBN
978-1-944214-00-5