Everyday matters: Contemporary Approaches to Architecture

This book explores how contemporary architects are responding to a world of overbuilding, homelessness, and insufficient infrastructure. Moving beyond traditional buildings, practitioners are now addressing everyday life—examining objects, resources, routines, maintenance, and questions of race and gender.

Featuring contributions from architectural designers, historians, and theorists, as well as experts in cultural geography, environmental anthropology, political philosophy, and sociology, the book highlights how the everyday shapes new approaches to architecture and urbanism, fostering a fresh ethics and aesthetics.

With a foreword by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, and photography by Ciro Miguel, it includes essays and projects by Caitlin DeSilvey, Geisa Garibaldi (Concreto Rosa), Vanessa Grossman, Anna Heringer, Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation), Guillermo López and Anna Puigjaner (MAIO), Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Markus Miessen (Studio Miessen), Mouraria 53, Djamila Ribeiro, Renzo Taddei, and Ilze & Heinrich Wolff (Wolff Architects).