Johan WijeSinghe
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Startup Architecture –
Venture as a new mode of practice
Architecture has always produced more than buildings. A growing number of architects are now producing companies. Not as a sideline to practice, but as practice itself. This conference examines that shift: what it means, what it makes possible, and what it demands.
Startups founded by architects are taking on problems that traditional practice has struggled to reach. Material supply chains, housing delivery, computational tools, new ownership models. In some cases the startup is the design. In others it is the only viable means of getting the design made. The boundary between disciplinary work and entrepreneurial work is dissolving, and the profession has not yet caught up with what that means.
The conference brings together architects, founders, and educators to ask the hard questions. What does it mean to treat a company as a project? Where does design agency end and market logic begin? What does this generation of architect-founders owe to the discipline, and what does the discipline owe them?
Chairs: Gilles Retsin, Benjamin Dillenburger
Johan Wijesinghe, Ewa Maciejewski
Johan Wijesinghe, Ewa Maciejewski