The Right to Be Naive: How Architecture Turned Innocence into a Position

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Since the 2008 crash, a scatter of small practices (none more than fifteen years old and none large enough to need a manifesto in the traditional sense) have arrived, independently of one another, at some version of the same refusal: to sound too certain, too soon, in a discipline that had spent the previous decade selling confidence as a finish. They would probably resist being filed under one heading, but the coincidence itself is that something about practising architecture after 2008 made innocence look like the only posture worth trying.

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The Right to Be Naive: How Architecture Turned Innocence into a Position