Year: 2025
Location: Prague
curator: Filip Landa
magazine: ERA21
In the new issue of ERA21 – Revision, I contributed to the Generation 2050 survey curated by editor-in-chief Filip Landa. Alongside a group of emerging architects and urbanists, I was invited to speculate on the possible futures of both architecture and the architectural magazine as cultural formats in the year 2050.
Rather than focusing on technological innovation or technical models of sustainability, my text revisits the most elementary epistemological and relational questions of architecture: How do we speak about architecture? For whom is it produced? And in what ways do architectural interventions shape not only human environments but also multispecies relations and ecological interdependencies?
Although we often describe our present as “modern,” the conceptual language of architecture—along with its pedagogical frameworks and the narratives circulated by media, institutions, and clients—remains embedded in inherited paradigms that no longer adequately reflect contemporary ecological and social realities. If sustainability is to function as more than a technical category or certification system, it must also address processes of loss, erasure, and silencing that accompany every act of construction. This requires an expanded ethical awareness of the material, cultural, and ecological layers architecture inevitably transforms, as well as a renewed sensitivity toward the non-human worlds on which human habitation depends.
In this sense, architecture cannot be reduced to the domain of buildings alone. It also emerges through performative, philosophical, anthropological, and narrative practices that reconfigure how collective life is imagined and experienced. Precisely for this reason, such interdisciplinary and speculative approaches deserve a more explicit and sustained presence within architectural discourse and its publishing platforms.
