Live Projects Practice

Studio as Book No. 11: Live Projects - Live Practice critically documents the social, pedagogical, and physical dimensions of Live Projects undertaken between 2017 and 2025 in studios DS3.2 and DS20 at the School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster, led by Maria Kramer. Through essays, interviews with external peers and partners, and detailed case studies, the volume explores Live Projects as a mode of design-driven research that integrates making, collaboration, and community engagement within architectural education. It interrogates the tensions between practice and pedagogy, process and output, and situates individual student work within both the Live Projects and broader intellectual and disciplinary debates. The book reflects on the transformative potential of Live Projects as an architecture of situated, ecologically responsive practice.