Chthonic deluge

What is it about?

This issue of design ecologies will offer alternatives to architectural practice rather than complimentary recognition often based on mutual recognition and critical limitation rather than imaginative crossovers. The contributors aim to consolidate a divide more than they overcome it. All the contributors have a conceptual abhorrence to more speculative approaches to architecture that seeks access to some speculative absolute, especially those that proffer a relative position in theory but absolute in practice.

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Why is it important?

Even though architecture is, pragmatically speaking, an extension of anthropology, the design of architecture cannot and should not be delimited and governed solely by the idiosyncratic prerogatives of a single person -- be it his/her individual lifestyle, aesthetics or political dispositions, instead it is imperative that architecture addresses problems pertaining to the substance of generic humanity, which has to be situated and contextualized within a larger trajectory directed toward ontological issues couched in the language of universality.