Architectural Practice in the Context of Post-Criticality: Spatial Thinking from City and Behavior of Atelier Bow-Wow

The theory and architecture practice of Atelier Bow-Wow highlight social engagement and strive to extract spatial concepts from the context of Asian cities and human behavior. They discovered problems that disciplinary autonomy and formal manipulation cannot solve, and concluded spatial prototypes. The article reveals the urban and spatial research of Atelier Bow-Wow, and analyzes their 3 projects of which the spatial concepts all start with urban environment and human behavior, instead of morphology. The research and design projects can help us to think deeply on how architects can transcend form, and discover spatial possibilities outside architecture discipline.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.106.49

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-15-9