The seventh issue of the peer-reviewed online journal Architecture Beyond Europe (ABE) is scheduled to appear in June. A section of the journal will be devoted to papers that address the reception and influence of Latin American architecture in Europe, but there is also an open call for papers. Submissions on nineteenth and twentieth century colonial and postcolonial architecture, as well as on modern architecture in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are welcome. The journal’s guidelines can be found at http://dev.abejournal.eu/index.php?id=302. Please submit potential papers to the guest editor, Kathleen James-Chakraborty at Kathleen.jameschakraborty@ucd.ie by by 31 January 2015.
Tools of the Trade. Architecture’s Critical Instruments
Architects have always created or borrowed practical, conceptual, and discursive means to imagine, communicate, and achieve their work. Such means are neither neutral, nor are they mere technicalities. From the draftsman's pencil and the ephemeral logic of formwork to...