Architecture of Invention. 10 experimental bibliographies

‘Architecture of Invention’ explores the experimental side of architecture through an architecture of books. It brings together ten experimental bibliographies conceived as a dialogue between expanded, spatial art and a critical, relational architecture that reflects on its own status. An intertextual and generative framework structures the project, producing narratives and cross-references among books and publications that are not necessarily contemporaneous or disciplinary. The ordering maps multiple cultural trajectories along a non-linear timeline marked by epochal leaps, ranging from avant-garde architecture to conceptual, radical, experimental and hardcore architecture. These constellations address themes such as construction and deconstruction, image and media, the body, the city, crisis, and critical practice. The book favours heterodox and lightweight editorial forms—manifestos, pamphlets, booklets, foldable posters, magazine articles, design plates, and artists’ books—while selectively preserving traditional models such as the scientific catalogue, the ambitious yet incomplete atlas, the investigative publication, and the theoretical–philosophical essay.