Candide: Journal for Architectural Knowledge Heft 3: Journal for Architectural Knowledge, no 3 - Softcover

Axel Sowa; Susanne Schindler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3837615421 ISBN 13: 9783837615425

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2010

Synopsis

"Candide: Journal for Architectural Knowledge" is an international, scholarly forum for all architects, planners, engineers, anthropologists, and geographers founded in 2009. "Candide" publishes research on architecture twice a year in German and English, responding to the growing demand for a medium that can foster and engage the culture of knowledge specific to architecture. Each issue contains five sections -- Essay, Analysis, Project, Encounters and Fiction -- challenging authors to approach architecture in multiple ways, observing, critiquing, speculating, narrating. Articles are selected through a double blind peer review. Issue 3 features the following articles: Essay: Andrew J Witt, A Machine Epistemology in Architecture / Project: Ela Kael, Hiltonculuk and the Post-War Architecture of Istanbul / Analysis: Oliver Schetter, Thoughts on the Architecture of Mozambique / Encounters: Amy Kulper, Questioning the Spatial Imaginary of Georges Perec / Fiction: Jimenez Lai, On Types of Seductive Robustness.

About this title

About the Author:

Axel Sowa was born in 1966. He studied Architecture in Berlin and Paris between 1987 and 1993. A scholarship awarded by the Carl-Duisberg-Stiftung (Cologne) sent him to Kyoto, Japan, to work in the studio of Gen-Plan from 1996 to 1997. He was editor of the journal L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui in Paris between 2000 and 2007 and has been Professor of Theory of Architecture at the RWTH Aachen University since 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3837615421
• ISBN 13: 9783837615425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170