LA, Germany and China-based global architecture firm GRAFT released a new book called 'Architecture Activism'. Architecture Activism documents ten projects that specifically address social problems and societal needs around the globe in which architecture is used as a means of actively fostering the development of livable places and environments. Among them is SOLARKIOSK, a self-initiated project that empowers people in off-grid communities by bringing clean energy and light into darkness.

The authors of the book are Nora Zerelli, Christoph Korner, Wolfram Putz, Lars Krückeberg and Thomas Willemeit, Cameron Sinclair wrote a preface. 

GRAFT's design focus and research span a wide variety of archetypes from different sources: high culture, low culture, philosophy, banality, architecture, movies, literature, sports etc. Analysis, communication and thereby the creation of relationships between and across these entities is graft. 

The studio's multi disciplinary approach refuses to accept the exclusive limitations of artificial borders between disciplines and elements and opens new possibilities for the creation of expansive results. Unexpected and surprising misunderstandings, global transfer of spatial quality, and the production of robust crossbreeds – an architecture derived out of circumstances, which can only be created through the grafting of different realities.

Architecture Activism is the first book of GRAFT, Immobilien Report 2016 -Communicating Architecture, Immobilien Report 2015-Living Spaces, GRAFTWorld, Distinct Ambiguity and Architecture in the Times of Need are other books that need to be examined.

Project type: Publication

Language: English

Publisher: Birkhäuser De Gruyter

Paperback: 240 pages 

Published: 23th May 2016 

ISBN: 978-3-945647-01-1

Illustration Editing: Yvonne Corinna Paul 

Design: www.proxi.me  

All images courtesy of GRAFT

See GRAFT's latest completed project Paragon Apartments on WA.

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