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Guest Edited by Johan Deurell and Yuma Shinohara
The primitive hut endures as a foundational concept, positioning the tent as architecture’s minimal paradigm. This issue of A—D reexamines the tent as structure, material, practice, and form, exploring its cultural and historical breadth. Through projects and critical perspectives, it frames the tent as a strategic model for rethinking sustainability, temporality, lightness, and collective life. Architecture faces growing pressure from the consumption of materials, energy, labor, time, and capital, prompting urgent interest in lighter modes of building and living. The tent is a convincing paradigm: a minimal, portable, and adaptable structure that privileges membrane over mass. Beyond efficiency, tents introduce temporality, ephemerality, and social multiplicity. They accommodate diverse uses from emergency shelter to celebration, and reframe architecture through flexibility, mobility, and multivalent cultural meanings in contemporary practice.
CONTRIBUTORS
Sean Anderson, Bangkok Tokyo Architecture, Iwan Baan, Didem Ekici, Isabelle Held, Anne Holtrop, Carla Juaçaba, Daryan Knoblauch, Joar Nango, Frei Otto, Smiljan Radić Clarke, SO–IL, Marina Otero Verzier, Enrique Walker, and Emmett Zeifman
Guest Edited by Johan Deurell and Yuma Shinohara
The primitive hut endures as a foundational concept, positioning the tent as architecture’s minimal paradigm. This issue of A—D reexamines the tent as structure, material, practice, and form, exploring its cultural and historical breadth. Through projects and critical perspectives, it frames the tent as a strategic model for rethinking sustainability, temporality, lightness, and collective life. Architecture faces growing pressure from the consumption of materials, energy, labor, time, and capital, prompting urgent interest in lighter modes of building and living. The tent is a convincing paradigm: a minimal, portable, and adaptable structure that privileges membrane over mass. Beyond efficiency, tents introduce temporality, ephemerality, and social multiplicity. They accommodate diverse uses from emergency shelter to celebration, and reframe architecture through flexibility, mobility, and multivalent cultural meanings in contemporary practice.
CONTRIBUTORS
Sean Anderson, Bangkok Tokyo Architecture, Iwan Baan, Didem Ekici, Isabelle Held, Anne Holtrop, Carla Juaçaba, Daryan Knoblauch, Joar Nango, Frei Otto, Smiljan Radić Clarke, SO–IL, Marina Otero Verzier, Enrique Walker, and Emmett Zeifman
