ABSTRACT
In order to address new challenges, the old model of the private architectural practice must be questioned. How does it shape the way architecture is made? Who is it made with? In what ways does it constrain agency? Doina Petrescu, co-founder of Paris-based Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée (AAA) has been confronting these questions through her work for almost 20 years. AAA employs tactics of community organisation and activism, to create ‘commons’, sites of genuine participation and democracy amongst the crumbling social structures of the welfare state.
