Territories is the third in Bangawarra's practice monograph series — and the most ambitious — repositioning architecture not as the production of objects but as the management of complex cultural, political, economic, and social relations.
About This Book
Where most practice monographs celebrate finished buildings, Territories challenges the very premise of that convention. For Bangawarra, buildings are the after-effect of relations — not the destination. This publication broadens the architect's terrain to include political advocacy, manifestos, strategies, and masterplans alongside built work, organising projects across three scales: macro-strategic, urban precinct, and individual site. Each section is framed by an essay contextualising its projects as acts of reterritorialisation. At a moment when architectural agency is both contested and contracting, this book makes a sustained argument for expansion — insisting that architecture must claim new territories if it is to engage meaningfully with the social, ecological, and economic conditions of the present.
Key Features
- 224 pages of built projects, masterplans, political manifestos, strategies, and contextualising essays
- Essays by Andrew Benjamin, Tarsha Finney, Gerard Reinmuth, and Amaia Sánchez-Velasco
- Third volume in a series following Instruments and Third Spaces
- Good Design Award 2025 winner, Communications: Print and Packaging
- Published by Uro Publications, 2025
What You'll Discover
- How relational thinking — across cultural, political, economic, and social dimensions — redefines the architect's scope and professional agency
- A three-tier framework for practice spanning macro-scale strategic projects, precinct and urban planning, and individual built sites
- Why architecture's endpoint is not the building but the network of conditions the building emerges from
- A critical argument, framed through Bangawarra's own work, for why repositioning architectural practice is necessary for survival — ecological, economic, and professional
About the Author
Bangawarra is an architecture practice whose work spans built projects, urban strategies, and political advocacy across Australia and Europe. Territories is the third monograph in a purposeful publishing series that reframes what practice documentation can be, following Instruments and Third Spaces. Aaron Betsky, Professor of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech, has described Bangawarra as "without a doubt among the most incisive architects in Oz."
Specifications
- Format: Softcover with soft touch matt cover and flaps
- Pages: 224
- Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781922601353
- Publisher: Uro Publications
- Publication Date: 2025
Perfect For: Architects and urbanists questioning the boundaries of practice; students and academics working in architectural theory, relational urbanism, or political ecology; and anyone invested in the argument that architecture must expand its agency beyond building.