Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge

Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge is a new international, scholarly forum for architects, planners, engineers, anthropologists and geographers. 'Candide' publishes research on architecture and building twice a year in German and English responding to the growing international demand for a medium that can foster and engage the culture of knowledge specific to architecture. Each issue of 'Candide' 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.

Candide No. 1 features following articles:

Essay /
Bernhard Cache, De Architectura – On the Table of Contents of the Ten Books of Architecture
In his in-depth reading of 'De Architectura', Cache highlight the encyclopedic and engineering backdrop to Virtuvius' treatise.

Encounters /
Axel Kilian und Arnold Walz, Programming Knowledge
Walz and Kilian reflect and speculate on the limits and promises of scripting in architecture.

Fiction /
Ulrich Pantle, At Home in the City
Pantle sees the fictive representation of architecture in German grade school primers as one reason for our approach to cities.

Project /
Wilfried Kuehn, Model and Event
Kuehn documents the key ideas of the award-winning and much discussed design for the new construction of the Berliner Schloss.

Analysis /
Robert Gassner, Family Portrait with House
Gassner connects anthropological and architectural theory in the analysis of a Danish single-family home of the 1930s.

The editors:

Axel Sowa (Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing.) has chaired the Department for Architecture Theory at RWTH Aachen University since 2007. Prior to his appointment, he was editor-in-chief of 'L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui' in Paris from 2000 to 2007.

Susanne Schindler (Dipl.-Ing.) is an assistant professor at the Department for Architecture Theory at RWTH Aachen University. Previously, she was an editor of 'ARCH+' in Berlin and practiced architecture in Boston.

WWW: www.candidejournal.net

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