ABSTRACT
As we acknowledge the call to architecture and the built environment to respond urgently to humanity's contemporary social and environmental crises, the traditional disciplinary approach has demonstrated obsolete and of little use. This article analyzes the evolution of the disciplinary extent of architecture until today, with the result of an accelerated reduction of the field in the last third of the 20th century that needs to be fully revised. Current social and professional conditions, together with the urgency of the planetarian challenges, suggest a renewed and expanded discipline of the built environment and a shift for the practice and education of architecture, from focusing on the disciplinary field and its capacities and prerogatives to focusing on the challenges to address. The change of focus allows for different methods of developing expertise and collaborations, within and beyond the field of the built environment. How this will translate to architectural education is a question with still few answers, and to which the Yamuna River Project tries to contribute as a case study.
