The act of repair is often considered humble—functional, reactive, and confined to the background of design. Yet when viewed as a methodology, repair becomes a rich and nuanced framework through which architecture can engage with complexity, context, and care.
This section explores four key thematic provocations—Repair as Analysis, Repair for Upcycling and Performance, Repair for Comfort and Preservation, and Repair for Resonance and Collaboration—each of which proposes a shift in how we understand architecture’s role in a rapidly transforming world. These provocations emerge from student work, pedagogical experimentation, and broader conversations on spatial justice, material intelligence, and participatory practice.
expanding the lexicon of repair in architecture
provocations
These four provocations—analysis, upcycling and performance, comfort and preservation, and resonance and collaboration—form the conceptual scaffolding of a repair-based architectural methodology. They are not prescriptive stages, but overlapping lenses that illuminate how repair can inform the ethical, technical, social, and affective dimensions of spatial design.
The act of repair is often considered humble—functional, reactive, and confined to the background of design. Yet when viewed as a methodology, repair becomes a rich and nuanced framework through which architecture can engage with complexity, context, and care.
This section explores four key thematic provocations—Repair as Analysis, Repair for Upcycling and Performance, Repair for Comfort and Preservation, and Repair for Resonance and Collaboration—each of which proposes a shift in how we understand architecture’s role in a rapidly transforming world. These provocations emerge from student work, pedagogical experimentation, and broader conversations on spatial justice, material intelligence, and participatory practice.
expanding the lexicon of repair in architecture
provocations
These four provocations—analysis, upcycling and performance, comfort and preservation, and resonance and collaboration—form the conceptual scaffolding of a repair-based architectural methodology. They are not prescriptive stages, but overlapping lenses that illuminate how repair can inform the ethical, technical, social, and affective dimensions of spatial design.