The VIII issue of Dialectic asks the reader to imagine possible
ways to subvert architecture. Or to employ architecture as means of
subversion. In this issue seven articles from international authors and
two guiding editorials invite the reader to reflect upon the various
ways of how architecture, normally conceived of as expression of power
and elites, undermines and undoes exactly this taken-for-granted
affirmatively. Divided in three sections the articles in the first part
explore lessons from scholarship and design from the 'field school' in
Milwaukee, from social housing in Brussels, and from informal open-air
bazars in Ukraine. Section two critiques instrumentalised architectural
knowledge, such as sustainability and the medium of drawing,
particularly from an indigenous perspective. Finally, section three
wrestles with fundamental concepts of the architectural discipline, with
the male, normalised, de-sexualised body and architecture's
relationship with the ground being two of the most fundamental ones.