Architecture of Care: Using an Auto-Ethnographic Design Approach to Rearticulate Practice.

This research establishes a care-focused methodology for the re-articulation of architectural practice. This research argues that current techniques and representations of architectural practice can take on greater significance and generate a more meaningful societal and professional contribution if they are developed through a lens of care. This lens of care, however, requires a fundamental repositioning in the way architects and designers orientate themselves within each project. This thesis argues that this adaptation requires a genuine and deeply considered recognition of personal attitudes, approaches and ingrained presumptions. This research advocates for care to become a provision of the architectural definition.