Edited by Hanif Kara & Paul Scott

Since the firm's founding 25 years ago, AKT II have forged a practice that unifies the cultures and disciplines of architecture and structural engineering. Structured into five discursive domains -scale, variability, attitude, reverse engineering, and the craftsmanship of engineering - this book presents a robust selection of the firm's endeavours, which together demonstrate a vast range of encounters and processes in design. Common among them is a desire to understand and reshape the boundaries of the discipline of structural engineering, along with its links to fields such as philosophy, computer science, and geography. Interlaced with the projects, texts by contributors from varying fields engage the theoretical discussions and social conditions that bind contemporary practice. With contributions by William Baker, David Basulto, Hanif Kara, Jayne Kelley, Priya Khanchandani, Adrian Lahoud, Lesley Lokko, Ibrahim Mahama, Stephen Parnell, Vicky Richardson & Ellis Woodman.