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Undisciplined is concerned with questions of the transformative effects of crisis in architecture as a discipline. This concern is addressed through the critical examination of a hybrid body of practice-based work, which, although founded on the discipline of architecture, results from its contingent amalgamation with other fields, including contemporary art, politics, and theory. The book reflects on projects developed in contexts of profound sociopolitical instability (i.e., corruption, violence, poverty, and exile), including informal settlements in Venezuela that provide the background to the discussion of projects undertaken elsewhere. In this process, the book interrogates the volatility of the crisis refrain, articulating a framework to propose an undisciplined form of architectural and spatial practice.
Architecture is a disciplined and conservative domain dedicated to the maintenance of relations of power. It is masculinist and exclusive, its walls firmly closed to the outside. Using experimental writing and storytelling, Eduardo Kairuz explores how, from the midst of this regime, an undisciplined approach might explode. We must creatively resist by practicing architecture “rebelliously and nomadically” to challenge the sedentary status quo. From the devastations of personal experience, I must also issue warnings, for the good fight is rigged. But fight we must, if we are to believe in this world— Professor Hélène Frichot, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Eduardo Kairuz is a Melbourne-based Venezuelan architect and lecturer at the Faculty of Art Design & Architecture at Monash University (MADA).
Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Rebellious Practice; Of Architectural Nomadism; From Discipline to Undisciplined; Teaching from La Vega; Notes; Image Credits; Index.