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Common Field is a lecture series organised by Garagem Sul and Lisbon Architecture Triennale that brings several European practitioners, academics and editors to Lisbon.

Opening the programme in March, Dogma, a Brussels-based practice co-founded by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara, introduces their ideas on architecture as politics, the city as project and how best we can live together, with examples from their most recent collective housing designs.

In May, Harquitectes, a Catalan studio co-founded by David Lorente, Josep Ricart, Xavier Ros and Roger Tudó, focuses on standards and passive behaviours. Their approach sheds light on the alternative meanings and potential of architecture without status, a concept which has been recently developed by them.

In the autumn, denkstatt, a Swiss practice co-founded by Barbara Buser and Max Honegger, set their sights on building transformation and reusage. Barbara Buser introduces the practice’s strategic and concrete approach to pre-existing structures, while also examining the role of architects as mediators within complex processes and a varied network of actors.

The year closes with a dialogue on critical thinking, editorial agendas and self-education. Guests include Maria Giudici, founder of Black Square and current editor of AA Files, and Moisés Puente, editor of 2G and founder of Puente Editores. Presenting together their architecture on paper, they reveal, from research to construction, its critical position in the current framework of publishing and architecture in Europe.

These four events can be perceived all together as layered bricks shaping a concrete understanding of architecture as a common field of knowledge.