ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing
Figure 1. Post-PTb Spiral (working drawing).
Current construction state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the author’s post-PTb projects. Shown as an active work-in-progress and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.
[edit] Is architecture progressing?
At a time of housing crisis, infrastructural inequality, and accelerating social change, the profession must confront a difficult question: is architecture genuinely progressing in ways that matter?
The article ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing proposes that architecture can no longer be understood simply as the production of buildings and completed forms. Instead, it asks whether the discipline is advancing the social, spatial, and institutional conditions through which collective life may improve.
The accompanying post-PTb Spiral is presented as a working analytical diagram through which projects, systems and developmental phases may be mapped. Rather than a fixed chronology, it proposes architecture as an evolving field of relationships, thresholds and expanding scales of intervention.
--Archiblog 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)
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