What is the Office for Presencing Architecture about?

The Office for Presencing Architecture is centred on evolving how we prepare environments that presence architecture. What would the ubiquitous presence of architecture mean for our lives and for our responsibility to the world and the welfare of life on earth? Architecture remains a great accomplishment of gathering our capacity at a place to realize it. It is much more rare than we would like to think, and it is much more important.

The Office for Presencing Architecture combines

         stewardship of the world and how to integrate that in our responsibility,

        architecture’s original ground, and its sibling twin – spirituality,

         architecture as practice and as profession.

The organization of this Substack has changed a couple times so far. I am introducing approaches and general topics that allow me to express what architecture presencing is, practice to produce it, and its relationship to spirituality, technology, building, traditional knowledge and changes to the profession. In short, this would be theory, but architecture is never theoretical.

For the coming year or more I am publishing The Goal in Architecture. The mutual claiming of one another of spirituality and architecture. This is a research project that I am substantially rewriting and publishing in ±2000 word episodes. Each publication will be free for one month. A paid subscription will allow you to read it like a book. These will be published at a rate of at least one a week.

There are other publications. I will be writing articles on current events, some focused on Canada’s architecture and some that are intended more generally, according OPA’s intents for practice and the foundation that I am expressing in the Goal in Architecture (G¡a) publications. These will add to the weekly G¡a publications. Two other groups are designated CS, for Case Study, which discuss existing places and projects, as well as projects that develop as research in practice (of writing) and Practice (P) is to discuss issues to do with the practice of providing for architecture the creation and realization of actual places.

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