La arquitectura después de la arquitectura: Reseña de Architecture’s Afterlife, the multisector impact of an architecture degree. Londres: Routledge. 2024

Carlos Tapia Martín

doi:10.12795/astragalo.2025.i30.14

Authors

Carlos Tapia Martín Universidad de Sevilla. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura. Departamento de Historia, Teoría y Composición Arquitectónicas. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4868-0178

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12795/astragalo.2025.i30.14

Abstract

This review analyzes the book Architecture’s Afterlife (Routledge, 2024), which examines the multisectoral impact of architectural education in Europe. Through Erasmus+-funded research, it reveals that nearly 40% of graduates do not practice as architects, prompting an epistemological, pedagogical, and political reconfiguration of the discipline. It argues that architecture should be understood as a mode of operation rather than a closed profession, and that its teaching must adapt to diverse career paths.

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Author Biography

Carlos Tapia Martín, Universidad de Sevilla. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura. Departamento de Historia, Teoría y Composición Arquitectónicas.

PhD in Architecture and Professor (currently full-time tenured official) at the Department of Architectural History, Theory and Composition at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla, Spain. Visiting Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism (São Carlos) of the University of São Paulo (2017 and 2023). Deputy Director of the Master in Sustainable City and Architecture (U. Seville) and member of the PhD programme and academic committee (U. Seville). Responsible for the specific agreement of double doctoral degree with the Universidade de São Paulo. He is assistant coordinator of the Laboratory of Southern Epistemologies and Socio-spatial Studies (IUACC) and the Institute of Architecture and Construction (IUACC) of the University of Seville. He has given guest lectures at, among other universities: Columbia University, New York Institute of Technology, Parsons University New York, City College New York, Pratt Institute New York, FAD Javeriana Bogotá, FAD Uniandes Bogotá, etc. He is also a researcher of the OUT_Arquias group, research on the limits of architecture. Extraordinary Doctorate Award 2006. Environment Award ‘Francisco De Asís’ Research and Environment Category. Granting Date: 05/27/2014 Royal Sevillian Academy of Sciences and Cobre-Las Cruces Foundation.

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