Fabricate 2024

Abstract

ARETI MARKOPOULOU ACADEMIC DIRECTOR, IAAC-INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE OF CATALONIAwe perceive resources and materialise buildings, but also encourages risk-taking in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry, promoting growth, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovation.We have many friends and colleagues to acknowledge and wish to start with our warmest thanks to our returning partners Blumer Lehman and ARUP, both of whom support FABRICATE through content, sponsorship, expertise, and exchange. To the Realdania Foundation, Cowifonden Foundation, Statens Kunstfond Foundation, and the Carlsberg Foundation, we express our sincere appreciation for their generous and transformational financial support. Denmark is privileged to have such a robust and extensive landscape of foundations to support research, practice, and dissemination across industry and the arts.In equal measure we thank the FABRICATE community for its continued passion and engagement with the subject matter and this event in particular. From this community we received more than 250 submissions from 45 countries; we would like to thank everyone who responded to the call for the extraordinary breadth, depth, and quality of work submitted, which made the process of review, selection, and curatorship extremely challenging. We are grateful to all authors and collaborators on each of the projects selected, and to all those who generously agreed to present their work.We are deeply appreciative of our wonderful 2024 and 2020 keynote presenters in turn, not only for your provocative orations, but also for your generosity in sharing the insights and perspectives published as the Dialogues in this book. We are indebted to kindred communities for their willingness to promote FABRICATE; this includes the ACADIA, LINA, CAFx and Rhino communities. Our thanks extend to our media partners ArchDaily, Dezeen and Actar/urbanNext.Our sincere gratitude is extended to The Royal Danish Academy for supporting this great enterprise. We thank publishers of the FABRICATE series as the widely acclaimed open access publication it has become; and to Srijana Gurung of the Bartlett communications team for her help with further disseminating the hardback copies in the UK. We are grateful to Riverside Architectural Press for their important role of distributing the publication in North America.Our thanks to those responsible for the tactile experience that you, as reader, are enjoying now: to Albe de Coker printers, we salute your passion for craft and detail, and deeply appreciate your kindness and tolerance -qualities that are vital in the making of well-made things.Finally, we would like to thank all our fellow peer reviewers for their invaluable contribution and generosity in ensuring the highest research standards across the FABRICATE 2024 selection process: