The issue with the client is that the reasons why clients should pay for architecture (i.e., the reasons why rich or powerful individuals could become clients) seem to be disappearing. In fact, architecture corresponds to a singular mixture of exhibitionism and shame that leads people to try to acquire public renown (and at the same time erase the memory of how they used to make money) by contributing to the construction of the spaces of public life. And while there is no shortage of exhibitionism nowadays...
The Client as a Vessel
Kersten Geers
Oh, Yes, Mr President!
Peter Swinnen
The Fief of Ford
Daniel Jacobs
Bad Client / Good Citizen: Notes on Henry Cobb’s Hancock Place
conrad-bercah
Presumed Influence: Le Corbusier and Buenos Aires, 1927–1935
Jacob Moore
Le Rouge et le vert: Chronique du XXe et XXIe siècles
Valter Scelsi
The Tale of Three Grocers and a Prince
Andrea Zanderigo
The Public of Architecture: Conflict and Consensus
Ludovico Centis
Arata Isozaki and The Tsukuba Project; or, The Vanity of Architecture as Self-critique
Guido Tesio
“Vous êtes gentils mais insupportables”: Robert Bordaz and the Centre Pompidou
Fabrizio Gallanti
Why Napoleon III Was a Good Client
Paolo Carpi
The President’s Gardener
Jelena Pančevac and Giovanni Piovene
Le Vide: The Time Rem Failed to Seduce François
Iason Stathatos
The Mayor, The Architect and 114 Dwellings: On Jean Nouvel’s Nemausus 1 Housing Project
Matteo Costanzo
Rotonda Falasteen
Elisa Ferrato and Abdalrahman Kittana
Eduardo Souto de Moura’s Tricks and Flicks
Matilde Girão and Ricardo Lima
Being the Client: A Subjective Experience Report
Joanna Kamm
The Death of a Client: The End of the English Housing Estate
Beth Hughes
2022
Human Wu
The Disappearance of the Public Client
Oliver Thill
Client Party
Evelyn Ting and Paul Tse
Educating the Petite Bourgeoisie: Notes on Adolf Loos’s “The Poor Little Rich Man”
Nikos Magouliotis
Your Favourite Clients
Victoria Easton and Francesca Pellicciari