A Unique Approach to Creating Public Spaces: In Conversation with Alejandro Haiek

Architecture practices usually start their design process with a client, who provides a program and a site. Alejandro Haiek, founder of The Public Machinery, approaches things differently. The Public Machinery describes itself as a network of architects and designers working collectively, actively observing, imagining, and proposing public urban interventions themselves. Their proposals are at the intersection of art, architecture, and engineering and weave community engagement, ecology, and new technologies into innovative forms of social infrastructure. They secure funding through research and public grants, enabling them to create public spaces that defy expectations in both their design process and in the form their projects take.

A Unique Approach to Creating Public Spaces: In Conversation with Alejandro Haiek
Pallet Parliament / The Public Machinery (Alejandro Haiek Coll, Rebecca Rudolph, and Raffaele Errichiello). Image Courtesy of Alejandro Haiek Coll Pallet Parliament / The Public Machinery (Alejandro Haiek Coll, Rebecca Rudolph, and Raffaele Errichiello). Image Courtesy of Alejandro Haiek Coll

Architecture practices usually start their design process with a client, who provides a program and a site. Alejandro Haiek, founder of The Public Machinery, approaches things differently. The Public Machinery describes itself as a network of architects and designers working collectively, actively observing, imagining, and proposing public urban interventions themselves. Their proposals are at the intersection of art, architecture, and engineering and weave community engagement, ecology, and new technologies into innovative forms of social infrastructure. They secure funding through research and public grants, enabling them to create public spaces that defy expectations in both their design process and in the form their projects take.

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