Created by Wrights & Sites, working with the visual artist Stuart Crewes (120 pages, full colour, ISBN-13: 9781911193104). Published by Triarchy Press, Axminister, 2018.
Bricklaying with daydreams, creative demolition, first aid for sick buildings, dissolving signs, beating boundaries, speaking truth to architecture and mapping hallucinatory post-truth urban landscapes... The Architect-Walker is Wrights & Sites' latest anti-manifesto for changing a world while exploring it. If our publications An Exeter Mis-Guide and A Mis-Guide To Anywhere took walking for a walk, then this time it is architecture that is on the move.
The Architect-Walker was officially launched as part of Art Week Exeter 2018, with an afternoon of walks and a book launch in the evening.
The Architect-Walker is available to buy from Triarchy Press.
Images: Stephen Hodge, Simon Persighetti, Phil Smith, Cathy Turner, Brendan Barry, Stuart Crewes.
The book cover
Pages 6-7
Pages 92-93
Pages 39+41
Pages 58-59
Pages 44-45
Pages 72-73
Pages 46-47
Pages 10-11
Pages 42-43
Pages 108-109
Pages 28-29
Pages 70-71
Pages 74-75
Pages 62-63
Associated Wrights & Sites outcomes
We are all Architect Walkers, a two-hour walkshop presented as a companion event to the Richard Long 'Time and Space' exhibition at Arnolfini and as part of the 'Art Weekender - Bristol and Bath' (Bristol, 2015).
The Architect-Walker: Manifesto and Manifestations, a four-hour walkshop for PAC Home, a cohort of artists, writers and curators convened by Plymouth Arts Centre (Plymouth, 2014).
The Architect-Walker: Manifesto and Manifestations, a joint paper, presented at the 'On Walking' conference (University of Sunderland and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, 2013).
Associated personal outcomes
The Intricacy of Walking and the City: Methods and Experiments
I was a Scientific Board Member for this four-day, interdisciplinary conference, convened by Labex Futurs Urbains at Universite Paris-Est (2015).
Excursions, Walking and Talking, and the Architect-Walker
I was invited to give a 45-minute lecture as part of the Architecture Fund 'Powers of Excursions' discussion series, presented by the Lithuanian Council for Culture at the National Arts Gallery in Vilnius (2015). In it, I examined Wrights & Sites’ changing relationships to walking and the fabric of the city.
T(r)ipping points: the architect-walker and the destabilised city
I was commissioned to deliver an intensive, two-day CPD workshop on the streets of Dublin as part of DIY13: 2016, a Live Art Development Agency initiative in partnership with Create, Ireland's national development agency for collaborative arts (2016). It explored notions of 'tripping' and 'tipping points' and was a means of prototyping a series of tactics during the development of The Architect-Walker. Participating artists undertook a series of peripatetic experiments designed to interrogate questions such as: How might walking culture contribute to architecture? When does the walker become an architect? How small a change is required to tip the city, or the lived experience of the city, from one state to another? It touched on the transformative potential of transdisciplinary (even antidisciplinary) dialogues around place and mobility.
Images: Stephen Hodge.
Intervening with cotton
Moulding the city
Dublin reflected
Building a new city on Bull Island at sunrise
A portable peephole
