The Avery Review
The Institutions of Architecture
“Architecture” is not confined to those durable objects called buildings. It takes form amid the many institutions—professional, pedagogical, curatorial, critical—that are engaged with architecture’s foundations, limits, and ambitions. The question of which actors, and what kinds of discourse, frame the way we talk about architecture has preoccupied the Avery Review since its inception, and virtually everything we publish takes some stock of architecture’s institutionality. The essays gathered here constitute a loosely drawn map of the sites of discursive power and help us to imagine architecture differently by revealing the ways in which “architecture,” as a discipline, is constructed.
Competition Climate, in the Avery Review 9 (September 2015).