Stan Allen Strategies and Tactics Strategy takes the long view the perspective of the general operating

g from behind the lines and projecting far in advance, while tactics are local, immediate and time-based an improvisational intelligence, that deploys speed and deception. Tactics operate within the enemys field of vision an art of the weak. Architecture is necessarily and traditionally compromised with the strategic. Architects plan in advance, and work at a distance from the city or the building site. To introduce a tactical dimension into architectural work is to pay closer attention to time as a variable, and to cultivate the unpredictable. It means to think of a form of design and practice which is more agile and adaptable, incorporating feedback and change over time into the urban and architectural field. It can also usefully serve as a means to describe and understand the full range of projects that Allens practice, SAA, is currently involved in, from smallscale additions and interventions to largescale strategic urban proposals. Stan Allen is Dean and Professor, Architectural Design, Princeton. He studied at Brown University, the Cooper Union School of Architecture and Princeton University; he practises in New York. The work of his interdisciplinary collaboration with landscape architect James Corner/Field Operations was recognised with first prizes in invited competitions for the re-use of Fresh Kills in Staten Island, (2001) and the Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena, California (2002). Current projects include buildings for the Botanical Garden at the University of Puerto Rico, a contemporary Music Centre in Taiwan, and ongoing architectural work at Fresh Kills Reserve, in Staten Island.

La estrategia toma una mirada extendida; una perspectiva de lo general que opera por detrs de las lneas proyectando por anticipado, mientras que la tctica es local, inmediata y basada en el tiempo; una inteligencia improvisadora, que hace uso de la velocidad y del engao. La tctica opera dentro del campo de visin del enemigo; un arte de dbiles. La arquitectura est tradicional y necesariamente comprometida con la estrategia. Los arquitectos planifican por anticipado y trabajan a una distancia respecto de la ciudad o del terreno del edificio. Introducir la dimensin tctica en el trabajo arquitectnico implica prestar mayor atencin al tiempo como variable y cultivar lo impredecible. Implica pensar en una forma de proyecto y de prctica ms gil y adaptable, incorporando a la retroalimentacin y a el cambio a lo travs del tiempo dentro del campo arquitectnico y urbano.