The inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial, titled Rights of Future Generations, includes commissioned works by architects, artists, activists, choreographers and scientists examining sites of resistance, struggle, emancipation and experimentation. The 27 essays featured in Conditions—the first of two volumes published in conjunction with the Triennial—chronicle some of these sites. From spiritual geographies of trade in the Indian Ocean to the unwritten transmission of land title in the Ganges Delta, this is a book about architecture’s fundamental role in imagining other forms of coexistence.
Contributions by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Annette Kogolo, Michael McMahon, Peter Murray, Murungkurr Terry Murray, Japarti Joseph Nuggett, text(s) by Marwa Arsanios, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Alonso Barros, Tom Boylston, Victoria Baskin Coffey, Cooking Sections, Jennifer Deger, Mohamed Elshahed, Adham Hafez, Ola Hassanain, Informal Collective on Western Sahara, Adam Jasper, Hamed Khosravi, Adrian Lahoud, Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Nidhi Mahajan, Farida Makar, Gonzalo Pimentel, Godofredo Pereira, Abir Saksouk, Felicity D. Scott, Francesco Sebregondi, Dima Srouji, Marina Tabassum, Stefan Tarnowski, Martino Tattara, Greg Thomas, Anna Tsing, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Mark Wasiuta, Grant Watson, Feifei Zhou, foreword by Hoor Al Qasimi, photographs by Anne Holtrop, graphic design by Morcos Key.
About the Editors
Adrian Lahoud is Dean of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art London. His work critically examines concepts of scale and shelter in architecture in light of emancipatory urban and environmental struggles, focusing on the Middle East and Africa. He was Research Fellow on the Forensic Architecture project and head of the MA Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University. He has also led urban design programmes at the Architectural Association and University College London.
Andrea Bagnato is Head of publications for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial. He trained as an architect and worked as a researcher and editor for Forensic Architecture, Space Caviar, Kuehn Malvezzi, and Tomás Saraceno, and was publications manager for the first Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015. More recently, he has taught at postgraduate level at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and at the Architectural Association in London. With his research project Terra Infecta – which concerns epidemics, architecture, and ecology – Bagnato was awarded grants from Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Graham Foundation.
About the Publisher
Based in Berlin, Germany, and established in 1945, Hatje Cantz is one of the leading publishing houses for art, photography, design and architecture books with a focus on contemporary art.
