What if cities are not designed, but co-written layer by layer?
What if architectural thinking begins with a dialogue instead of a drawing?

Cooperative Architecture traces how architecture can emerge through relational processes of co-creation, co-habitation, and collective authorship. It reimagines the city not as a fixed object of design, but as a living field of improvisation, repair, and care. In the book three exemplary sites of urban transformation are discussed: Granby Four Streets in Liverpool, Can Batlló in Barcelona, and ExRotaprint in Berlin. Each case unfolds as a laboratory of practice, demonstrating how architecture can become a performative and transformative cooperative act.

Cappeller demonstrates how artistic strategies and design-based thinking, driven by an ethnographic methodology, from situated writing, visual mapping, and documentary filmmaking, can develop exemplary ways to conduct architectural design research to curate urban situations. Cooperative Architecture highlights the invisible grounds of space, from social traces and relations to urban processes of transformation and shared rhythms.