Abstract:
As architectural techniques of control in urban environments become increasingly prevalent, this thesis explores the provision of choice through guerrilla architectural interventions. The proliferation of a new military urbanism illustrates the progressive transformation of the urban city into normalised regions vulnerable to violent transgression. A range of precipitators is examined: from the historical development of a neoliberal architecture; to the radical architectural theories of the 60s; and the technologically-advanced homeland security market. These areas provide a platform for a design-as-research approach to subvert techniques of control into a series of conditions of operational optimism. These speculations seek to develop a conceptual series of ideas into architectural provocations on the state of contemporary architecture, and a platform for pluralizing ways of living as explored through an insurgent type of architecture.