Failed Architecture (FA) reconnects architecture with the real world. Through articles, podcasts, Situations, and occasional events, we support an international network of writers, editors and critics committed to challenging dominant spatial narratives and exploring alternative realities.
Architecture continues to fail because we are stuck in a world system that puts profit above everything else while reproducing social and political conditions that undermine people’s control over their environment. The (architectural) media should be opposing this state of affairs, but its dependence on the industry it’s supposed to critique means that coverage tends to reduce the design of society to a matter of spectacular images and PR. As a result, the public is left with a shallow representation of what architecture is and what it can be.
With our limited resources, FA attempts to stem the seemingly endless avalanche of nonsense by reaching far beyond the architectural community, combining personal stories with research and reflection, and always remaining committed to the idea that architecture manifests just as much in the realm of culture, identity, personal experience, political struggle, all sorts of complex ecological, social and historical processes, and everything that happens after the building’s been built.
Based in various cities around the world, FA’s editors run the platform along horizontal lines. FA is legally constituted as an independent foundation (stichting) based in the Netherlands.
Core editors
Alistair Napier (London)
Charlie Clemoes (Amsterdam)
Hamzah Al Asadulloh (Bandung)
Laura Buitrago (Bogotá)
Sasha Plotnikova (Los Angeles)
Junior Editors
Danute Līva (Amsterdam)
Jumanah Abbas (Dubai)
Editors-at-large
Chiara Dorbolò
Eda Hisarlioglu
Ameneh Solati
Juana Salcedo
María Victoria Londoño-Becerra
Marian van Bodegraven
María Mazzanti
Mark Minkjan
René Boer
Copy editors
Jim Clemoes
Katherine Tanner
Martha Mingay
Former editors
Abbas Sbeity
Anny Li
Bassem Saad
Çiğdem Yılmazer
Christin Hu
Daphne Bakker
Dirim Dinçer
Dina Taha
Jan Loerakker
Joshua McWhirter
Juan Sebastián Sepúlveda
Kevin Rogan
Ljubo Georgiev
Maja Popovic
Mert Ceylan
Michael Nicholas
Michiel van Iersel
Öykü Önal
Tim Verlaan
Kate Wagner
Graphic design
Kees de Klein
Development
Tom Laan
Email
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Failed Architecture would not have been possible without our international team of editors , and our contributors from around the world. Failed Architecture is supported financially by FA supporters (donate now!). We received a design criticism grant from the Creative Industries Fund NL in 2017 and 2019, and a grant from the EFL Foundation.
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