Buchanan, Peter

Bio Sketch

Peter Buchanan is a British architect, critic, and former deputy editor of The Architectural Review, whose "Big Rethink" essay series (2012) marshaled Integral theory (Ken Wilber's AQAL, All Quadrant All Level) to diagnose the loss of purpose in architecture and to argue for a more complete, sustainability-oriented redefinition of the field.

Key Works

• "The Big Rethink" series, The Architectural Review (2012) — including "Part 4: The Purposes of Architecture."

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Critical Architecture
• Everyday Architecture
• Atmosphere

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Buchanan's integral/redefinition account is relevant to Geoffrey's phenomenology of place, postmodernism & critique, and modernity & dwelling areas: his argument that architecture's fundamental purpose is "creating our cultures and ourselves" and to make us "at home in the world" speaks to dwelling (Heynen, Heidegger) and to the phenomenology-of-place cluster, and offers a reformist (non-political-economic) alternative to the critical tradition.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• The Big Rethink Part 4: The Purposes of Architecture