Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics – Special Issue Call – Architecture & Design Strand

Rachel Isaac-Menard Announcement
Location
United Kingdom
Subject Fields
Architecture and Architectural History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Urban History / Studies, Urban Design and Planning

This is a call for articles that develop themes highlighted in the book, Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics - Social and Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century.

 

The book has been produced in conjunction with the scholarly journal Architecture_MPS who are now preparing the Special Issue Publication (SIP). Submissions should respond to one of the features and /or themes of the book (see below).

There are three distinct strands to the SIP, Cultural Studies; Geography and Social Studies; Architecture and Design

Themes in Cultural Studies include but are not limited to: critiques of the architecture of spectacle; architecture as artistic or social practice; the social and political symbolism of architecture; housing as an architectural, social and political problem; participatory design and planning; the current status of star architecture etc.

 

If you are interested in submitting an article send a 300 word abstract to info@architecturemps.com

Final articles will accord to the submission requirements of the journal: http://architecturemps.com/author-guidelines/

The standard essay format is expected but submissions that that use the book’s new genre of academic writing (the ‘interview-article’) are particularly welcome. 

For more information about the book on which this special issue is based, see link and description below: https://www.routledge.com/Reflections-on-Architecture-Society-and-Politics-Social-and-Cultural/Cairns/p/book/9781472456083

 

Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics - Social and Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century

This book brings together a series of thirteen interview-articles by Graham Cairns in collaboration with some of the most prominent polemic thinkers and critical practitioners from the fields of architecture and the social sciences, including Noam Chomsky, Peggy Deamer, Robert A.M. Stern, Daniel Libeskind and Kenneth Frampton. Each chapter explores the relationship between architecture and socio-political issues through discussion of architectural theories and projects, citing specific issues and themes that have led to, and will shape, the various aspects of the current and future built environment. Ranging from Chomsky’s examination of the US–Mexico border as the architecture of oppression to Robert A.M. Stern’s defence of projects for the Disney corporation and George W. Bush, this book places politics at the center of issues within contemporary architecture.

The ‘interview-article’ is a variation on the interview format that deepens the scholarly potential of that particular mode of dialogue. Extensive notation - often narrative in tone - is interwoven within the text to offer supplemental information and alternative argumentation and in this regard it represents a continuation of the evolving scholarly tradition of the footnote as academic tool laid out by Anthony Grafton. In addition to these narrative commentaries, these interview-articles are accompanied by full bibliographies and specific references entwined within the text. Contributors are also encouraged to develop discursive answers to questions that they are subsequently given the opportunity to mould into more considered essay type responses.

Contact Information

Rachel Isaac-Menard

Contact Email
info@architecturemps.com