Godofredo Enes Pereira

Alternative Nature celebrates 21 years of PARKKIM, the acclaimed landscape architecture practice founded by Yoonjin Park and Jungyoon Kim in 2004 after winning the ChiChi Earthquake Memorial Competition. Based in Seoul and Boston, the duo redefines terrain through sculptural landforms, material experimentation, and ecological sensitivity. This first global monograph features 26 projects of diverse scale—from corporate landscapes to civic venues—and curated reflections that reveal their obsession with shaping ground through rhythmic “blades”. Eschewing conventional formats, the book offers an intimate portrait of their creative vision and global relevance.

With Contributions From
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Niall Kirkwood, Jeong-Hann Pae, and John Hong.

Alternative Nature

Paul Mylecharane

The lecture presents the methods that *Monsoon as Methodology* has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a co-producer of urban life and space in South and Southeast Asian cities. It challenges views of climate as an inert backdrop to urban life, instead suggesting that it is materially and spatially active in shaping urban politics, ecologies, infrastructures, buildings and bodies. The book invites urban practitioners, from architects to policy makers, to think differently about space, time, representation and human and non-human agency. It offers intra-disciplinary, intra-active methods for rethinking human and non-human relations with weather in ways that meet the challenges of climate change and the Anthropocene. 

Monsoon as Methodology

Permafrost is a paradox: the frozen bedrock of northern worlds is both a repository of ancient carbon, microbial life, and ancestral memory, and, in its thaw, a database of deadly instability.

Groundwork

Sam Jacoby

Drawing Architecture and the Urban

David Burns

An Unseen Archive of Nuclear Colonialism

The Arab City: Architecture and Representation

Adrian Lahoud

Fallen Cities: Architecture & Reconstruction

This site is a living record of the research culture of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London.

Intergenerational Design

Seyithan Özer

“What is architecture?” Many great architects, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Étienne-Louis Boullée, have grappled with this question. This book stems from the author’s personal reflections on the practice of architecture and offers a collection of thoughts on understanding architecture and the architectural project. It does not claim to be exhaustive or systematic. These reflections—shaped by teaching—remain personal, even as they aspire to be shared with others.

The core argument developed here is that the history of architecture must be recognized as the foundational matrix of architectural identity. From this premise, the inquiry explores the essence of architecture and the project; it examines how this discipline can be taught and learned, what constitutes a theoretical text on the project, and what defines architectural research. The book is intended for those who, like an architecture student, wish to “understand better.”

RCA School of Architecture Research

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Drawing Architecture and the Urban, Sam Jacoby

An Unseen Archive of Nuclear Colonialism, David Burns

Fallen Cities: Architecture & Reconstruction, Adrian Lahoud

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Architecture as a Historical Discipline

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Alternative Nature (21 May 2026, 6:30pm)

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