About the Editor 4Neil SpillerIntroduction 6The Next GenerationCircling the TableNeil SpillerThe Magic of Asking 'What if?' 14Radical Architectural PedagogyElena ManferdiniSome Colours 24Unravelling Thesis ConstructionsPerry KulperAccelerating Towards Abundance 34Planetary Strategies in the Era of the AnthropoceneEvan DouglisDisciplinary Displacements 44The Revaluation of Conventions through the Postgraduate ThesisMichael YoungA Canvas on which to Feast 52A Canadian AdventureNeil SpillerMaking the Means to Draw Out Ideas 60Nat ChardProject Documentaries 68The Rise of the Cinematic PortfolioMark MorrisPost-Operative 'Post-isms' 76Details of the 21st-Century Educations of ArchitecturalistsMark GarciaDrawing on Situational Sites 86Riet EeckhoutBuilding the Future with Architecture 96Nicolas HannequinRe-envisioning Healthcare Urbanism and Architecture 104Hani RashidNew Melbourne Pedagogics 112A Virtual Web of ActionsJane BurryThe Allegorical Architectural Project 120Provocateurs, Propositions and ConfrontationsDaniel K BrownFrom Another Perspective 128Going UndergroundRick GoodingNeil SpillerContributors 134
NEIL SPILLER is Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, London, prior to this he was Dean of the School of Architecture, Design and Construction and Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory. Before this he was Vice-Dean and Graduate Director of Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL). Neil has guest-edited 7 titles of AD including the highly successful Architects in Cyberspace I and II (1995, 1998), Protocell Architecture (2011) and Drawing Architecture (2013). He is a member of the AD Editorial Board. He has also published books with Thames and Hudson, as author of Visionary Architecture-Blueprints of the Modern Imagination (2006), Digital Architecture Now (2008) and as co-editor of Educating Architects (2014).