The Everyday:

Where Architecture Lives

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Architecture, as Attoe once posed, revolves around three guiding questions: What is it? What should it do? And how should it be designed?

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But what if we begin with a different question: Where is architecture?

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This lecture explores architecture through the lens of urban habitability, understanding how it unfolds not only through built form, but through the ways we live; streets that hold memory, rituals of gathering, acts of care, and narrative of places. It may be speculative, ephemeral, or improvised, yet still deeply architectural in how it organizes bodies, choreographs relations, and produces place.

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Rather than departing from architecture’s formal traditions, this lecture opens its edges. It proposes a broader perspective that includes not only what is built, but also what is felt, narrated, performed, or remembered. It recognizes that architecture often takes form within the realm of the everyday: in unnoticed gestures, habitual spaces, and ordinary encounters that quietly shape how we dwell.

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Not beyond the building, but within and around the vibrant and often invisible architectures of everyday life. It asks: If architecture doesn’t always build, what does it do? And if it is everywhere, how do we learn to see it?