This book is a collection of urban research and architectural projects using observation as a design tool and design as an observational method. Through this process, a position on the making of architecture and on the role of architecture within the wider urban environment is established; embracing the full messy reality of the present, finding delight in the everyday and developing sensitivity to a range of found environments. By taking pre-existing conditions seriously, each project, architectural or analytical, large or small, becomes understood as the strategic renovation of a continuing state.
Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure: Making and Using the Urban Environment is part of the “Design Research in Architecture” series produced by UK-based Ashgate Publishing.