The Portraits series explores contemporary architectural practices through a variety of perspectives. Through engagement with each practice, the collection is enriched by prioritising depth over monographic exhaustiveness. Just as a painter might depict the same subject repeatedly without ever exhausting its singularity, each Portrait captures a facet of a practice [a line of research, a concept, an obsession] by making it accessible through a specific editorial project. This approach invites the practices to take a reflective look at their own work, choosing to isolate certain aspects rather than producing an overarching synthesis. From one volume to the next, the collection thus composes a necessarily fragmentary portrait of contemporary architecture; a portrait shaped by the convergence of practices, voices and unique forms.