Ryan Waller is a partner at Other Means, a Brooklyn-based graphic design studio working with architects, artists, curators, editors, institutions, and schools.
Architecture exists in the public sphere and is the product of collective work and knowledge. Yet the defining boundaries of the discipline are often contested. Architects can and often must embody a spectrum of characters in their practice: politician, artist, physicist, entrepreneur. Likewise, a building is the nexus of multifaceted economies, legislations, and information systems. Since ”architecture” has become a metonym for increasingly distributed persons and practices, how–and for whom—do we establish its domain? To trace the evolving meanings of the term ”domain” is to trace the changing ways that space has been defined, accessed, and constructed: from domain as…