Landscape as Territory
A Cartographic Design Project

Published by Actar Publishers & Architectural Association | 220 pages | Illustrations Color | ISBN: 9781948765190, 2019

Landscape as Territory is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called ‘Urban Age,’ understanding the notion of ‘territory’ as a field of design praxis through which interconnected landscapes are produced. Territory, understood as a ‘political technology,’ has the capacity to involve architects and designers into complex social, political, technical, legal, strategic and economic processes that are both historical and geographical engines of contemporary urbanization.

Territorial praxis is interrogated in a collection of threaded theory and design contributions where essays pose key questions that are addressed through projective cartographies, unfolding arguments related to three sections: (1) territory, (2) critical cartographies and (3) agency.
This material intends to raise awareness about the consequential production of landscapes through territorial processes and urges a critical re-appropriation of cartographic tools, accomplice in the production of territories, and to question and expand the architect’s agency.

Clara Olóriz Sanjuán | All rights reserved ©

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Clara Olóriz is a research and practicing architect. She is a studio master at AA Landscape Urbanism programme and director of Groundlab London. She has taught both design and theory courses and workshops at ETSAUN and Leeds Beckett and other universities worldwide. She developed her international PhD at the AA and ETSAUN on the relationship between technology and architecture. Along with her PhD research and Groundlab practice, she has contributed to several congresses, magazines (AD, Wallpaper Design Awards, Kerb) and books related to innovations in landscape architecture, territory and research by design at the intersection between history, theory and praxis. She has directed the AA Research Cluster Urban Prototypes and curated the Processing Environments symposium at the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum. Her research has been supported by fellowships, grants, and awards from the British Council, Conacyt, Bilbao Ekintza, Caja Madrid, Caja de Arquitectos and most recently AA Publications Fellowship.