Little Worlds documents three years of conversations and projects in the Architectural Association’s Diploma Unit 9, providing an archive of their ongoing enquiry into context. At a time when architecture is trying to redefine itself, the issue of context – how to collect it, make it, shape it, talk about it, and produce architecture within it – is more pressing than ever. The book pulls together a collection of utterly unique and singular worlds that together argue for a positioning of architecture: not geographically, but rather set within its rich cultural context, shaped by real histories and imagined futures. Ultimately, Little Worlds addresses a question all architects face at the beginning of their bright futures – how to shape an identity.

9781907896538, 2014
29.7 × 21cm, illustrated, 350pp, hardback