A+T 63 - 2ndHAND Series: Hybrid Buildings

The first issue of the 2ndHAND series addresses hybrid buildings as a condition rather than a type. Forced to abandon faith in a single, linear notion of progress, the architect must accept the legitimacy of the fragmentary and the plural, relinquish total coherence and operate through heterogeneity, producing hybrid, open, and inevitably imperfect constructions. The building ceases to be a closed object and becomes an evolving system, shaped by multiple logics and capable of adapting to a changing urban reality. Eight projects are spotlighted, from the Royale Belge in Brussels and the Ghent Provinciehuis to Depot Hard in Zurich and Ilôt Lafayette in Paris.