Approaching Architecture: Three Fields, One Discipline

Miguel Guitart is an architect, author, and academic. Guitart is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture at the University at Buffalo-SUNY, Buffalo, New York. Guitart obtained his PhD in Architecture from ETSAM, Polytechnic University of Madrid, and his Master's degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University as a J. W. Fulbright Scholar. His research focuses on the experiential intersections between matter, perception, and memory. Guitart has been awarded by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), the Architecture + Design Program at the New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA), and the UB Humanities Institute as a Faculty Fellow. He is the author of Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference (Routledge, 2022).

PART I. Architecture as Research 1. Normal Inventory 2. Fitness on Connected Fields: Distance, Time, and Conversation 3. The Substrate of Architectural Experimentation: Tradition and Architectural Design 4. How Much Room for a Dream in Tehran? 5. Building Knowledge in Interdisciplinary Design PART II. Architecture as Pedagogy 6. Teaching Architecture: At the Vanguard of Rearguard 7. Fun Palaces on the Buffalo Outer Harbor 8. A Certain Praise for Drawings: Sources, Goals, and Tools 9. The Trellis at Silo City: A Case Study for Design-Build in a Post-Industrial Context 10. Constructing Space PART III. Architecture as Practice 11. From Practice: Landscape, Memory, Technology 12. Transformative Impact: Rethinking the Structure of Inclusive Practices 13. Unsanctioned Architecture 14. Developing an Architecture of Consequence 15. How to Build a House