Interstices journal of architecture & related arts

Surface and ornament are periodically reviewed, discarded and pursued. More recently, there has been an interest in the writing of Aby Warburg, Alois Riegl, Gottfried Semper, Adolf Loos, Hermann Muthesius, and Le Corbusier. They have been made prominent by issues of animation (see, for example, Papapetros 2012, Payne 2013, van Eck 2014) and digitation (see for example Spuybroek 2008 and Schumacher 2009).

Incrustations, protuberances, textured expressions, smoothed surfaces, surfaces enlivened as screens – are they ornament or cladding? The forthcoming issue of Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, “Surface/Pattern”, pursues the tension between ornament,

Interventions / Adaptive Reuse: Design Intervention to an Existing Construct(s) as ACT

Established in 2009 as the first American academic publication focusing on Design and Adaptive Reuse, the Int|AR Journal explores this inherently sustainable practice through multi-faceted investigations and paradigmatic examples. Encompassing issues of preservation, conservation, alteration and interventions, each peer-reviewed issue offers broad but distinct viewpoints on a single topic.

We live in a time characterized by violence, racism, inequality, supremacy, ignorance.  These actions prompt responses, daily and globally, from Tweets to boycotts, but also kindness and unintended

[in]arch 2018: THE STORIES OF INTERIOR: Multiple Perspectives on Interiority

30-31 January 2018

Depok, Indonesia

There is a significantly growing discourse evolving on the topic of interiority, that calls for reconsideration of inhabitation process in our living environments, and extends its potential beyond the bounded internality of architectural spaces. The attempts of rethinking interiority challenge spatial dichotomies, promote interdependence, and offer insights from different culture and perspectives. These attempts may emerge from diverse stories of engagements

Revista de Arquitectura

RA, Revista de Arquitectura is a forum for the academic debate concerning architecture as a cultural reality of undeniable importance and impact and as object for careful consideration, study and research. It is a channel for the intellectual output of the Theory and History, Urban Design and Design Departments, although it is open to articles and contributions from other fields. RA, Revista de Arquitectura is a peer reviewed magazine, and it is included in the main international databases.

CFP for issue 20 is open to contributions in English and Spanish. Guest editor, Jesús Vasallo (Rice University, Houston TX), proposes ’Nature as Construction material’ as a field of study and welcomes submissions by young and established scholars and architects until February 28, 2018.

More information at the Revista de Arquitectura website.

Log 42

Log 42
Winter 2018
Deadline: Monday, October 2

Log 42 is a special issue, titled “Phenomenology against Architectural Phenomenology,” guest edited by Bryan E. Norwood. For details, click here.

Log prefers texts that are conceived and written as essays or brief “observations,” not academic papers or project statements. Length may vary, but we rarely accept essays

Breaking down barriers: "Usability, Accessibility and Inclusive Design"

Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, 9-11 April 2018

“Breaking Down Barriers” is the ninth of a series of workshops, started in 2002, that represent the inclusive design community. CWUAAT is a unique multi-disciplinary workshop where designers, computer scientists, engineers, architects, ergonomists, ethnographers,  policymakers and user communities meet.

In the context of developing demographic changes leading to greater numbers of older people and people living with impairments, the general field of inclusive design research strives to relate the capabilities of the population to the design of products, services, and spaces. CWUAAT has always had a successful multidisciplinary focus, but if genuine transdisciplinary fields are to evolve from this, the final barriers to integrated research must

ABC News: Signs of Australia's times captured for new book

by Carol Rääbus

Brady Michaels and Dale Campisi have travelled around Australia documenting signs new and old.
Michaels is now collating the images for a book to launch later this year.
But first, he said he hoped to collect the stories behind the signs thanks to the power of social media.

ABC News: Signs of Australia's times captured for new book

Research in Engineering Design special issue

Call for papers: a special issue of research in engineering design on the topic of design and development processes

This special issue aims to bring together state of the art of design and development process research that takes an empirical, theoretical, conceptual, prescriptive or pragmatic perspective on these topics, and has a genuine goal to improve design practice.

Submissions may consider design and development processes on any scale, from the activities of individuals or teams who execute, manage, or direct them, through to the macro-level processes used to develop complex products or systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Models of the design and/or development process.
• Methods and tools to support the design and/or development process.