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Building projects continue to proliferate at a global scale in spite of the economic climate. Architectural concepts are being incorporated by a variety of discourses. Ever-expanding arrays of spatial practices are considered within the bounds of the discipline. Is architecture becoming ubiquitous? Or think about the same circumstances a different way: Architects are constructing ephemeral environments, micro-scalar interventions and even invisible phenomena. Other fields are unremittingly appropriating architecture. The cleft between the discipline of architecture and its own professional practice is deepening. Is architecture evaporating?

Work Books seeks original responses by students to this paradoxical situation of disciplinary obsolescence and expansion. In a bold, creative and provocative visual format such as a diagram, map, cartoon, collage or illustration — no essays, please!– show us how you might navigate through these relationships in a manner that proposes new ways of thinking or acting architecture differently.

Selected submissions will be included in the forthcoming Work Books publication, Architecture is All Over, scheduled for release in 2012.

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