Perspecta 55 av Ethan Zisson, Matthew Wagstaffe

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<b>A collection that explores how architecture ought to negotiate the future, when the future is anything but certain.</b><br><br>Architecture is fundamentally a practice of predicting the future. In designing spaces that will endure for decades, architects must reconcile their visions of future living with predicted economic, political, and environmental futures. Thus, whereas utopian architects of the past each sought to impose a singular future through visionary architectural form, architects of today must reconcile between the multiple futures projected by hired specialists, live modeling software, climate change prognoses, and financial markets. <i>Perspecta</i> 55 aims to undertake this much-needed analysis of contrasting techniques of prediction, investigating architecture’s relationship to these conflicting visions of the future. <br><br><i>Perspecta</i> gathers together contributions from the fields of finance, climate, security, and computation to unearth the parti