Spatial Agency is an ongoing research project that aims to shift the of focus of architectural discourse from one that is centred around the design (= building) and making (= technology) of buildings to one where architecture is understood as a situated and embedded praxis conscious of and working with its social, economic and political context. Thanks to tom warren for the link.

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Glasgow has a new, timely, ALEO (arms length external organisation), City Property (Glasgow) LLP, to which Glasgow City Council will be transferring the rights to the income from hundreds of income-generating properties in exchange for £120m. The titles to the properties will still legally remain the council's in most cases, although a small number have been already marked for… Continue