Call: NEW ETHICS, NEW AESTHETICS
Guest Editor
PhD. Arch. Pablo Olalquiaga Bescós
Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid – COAM
Madrid, Spain
Image: Marceille Block (Boceto del proyecto Sergey Barkhin y Mikhail Belov), 1985, ink on paper.
Image credits: Committee on Architecture and Design Funds, Architecture and Design Department | Mikhail Belov Collection.
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This editorial line aims to alert about the potential influence that rhetoric not related to praxis may have on 21st-century architecture. There is an intense, though sometimes rather disorienting, debate about the role of the architect in today's society. The two major architecture events of 2023, the Venice Architecture Biennale —under the heading "The Laboratory of the Future"— and the UIA World Congress in Copenhagen —with the slogan "Sustainable Futures - Leave No One Behind"—, have focused on social, ecological, anthropological, inclusive, demographic, and economic issues. Discussions in conferences, panels, or installations have addressed migration crises, consumption, natural resources exploitation, the economy, etc. Numerous current and past problems and crises have been exposed, but with an evident lack of timely solutions or appropriate architectural proposals. Approaches with great analytical capacity are prominent but attempts at offering architectural actions to solve them are scarce, even though that is a centuries-old trait of the architect’s trade. These facts leave us with many questions in the air. What is the social role of architecture? Are we facing an era of denunciation in architecture? Does the message rather than the proposal matter more in architecture?
For this issue, we are welcoming theoretical or empirical essays or research papers, that address topics such as modernity and the evolution of modernity critique, and its contemporary variations; historiographical review essays on architecture and city planning, and the construction of discourses that support them; architectural practice and the sociopolitical context in urban and architectural development; synergies between architectural theory and other related disciplines such as philosophy, linguistics, or social sciences; the relationship between the project, technic and technology regarding the social and historical role of the architect; ethical challenges concerning the use of AI and the development of a new aesthetic arising from its use; tensions between sustainability discourse and the discipline of the project; critical positions of a counter-hegemonic nature coming from the regional and the local domains; the relationship between architecture and context; the role of archetype and its reference in the project and in discourse; the evolution of discourses in schools and offices; the role of positions coming from the avant-garde.
Schedule:
- Manuscript submission: August 20, 2024 until December 31, 2024
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