Currently, there’s a widespread consensus that architectural magazines have played a fundamental role in consecrating identities and giving rise to new orders of thought on the practice and the representation of architecture. Editing and projecting have thus become so closely linked that it seems reasonable to claim that they share a common ground beyond the contingencies of constructive practice, resting upon a web of both conceptual and professional relationships.
Some authors have been taking periodical publications as important research sources; as well as entities able to reconfigure the theoretical, technical, disciplinary and discursive settings in which they are grounded and the identity of their protagonists.
The international congress The site of discourse will place the architectural magazine in the center of the debate, in order to understand the place that such “printed object” occupies in the definition of the contemporary architectural discourse — in its conceptual, theoretical, graphic, material dimensions. The aim is to reflect on the culture of architectural periodical press in a geographical and chronologically extended context, crossing perspectives from different disciplinary traditions, taken the following topics as starting points:
- Panel 1: Dissemination and Reception: Practices and Theories.
- Panel 2: Autochthonous, tropical and modern: architectural periodicals looking beyond Europe
- Panel 3: Case Studies: Theory and Practice
- Panel 4: Discourse and discipline
- Panel 5: Discourse and Ideology
- Panel 6: Social composition of architectural criticism
- Panel 7: Relations between Architecture, Design and Visual Culture
- Panel 8: The housing issue in architectural periodicals
Submission:
We invite the submission of 300 words abstracts in the form provided in the Submission page of the conference website.