Call for papers - Political spaces of architecture: commitments, experiences, transmission

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The cross magazine opens a call for articles for its 7th issue on the theme Political spaces of architecture: commitments, experiences, transmission.
This issue is coordinated by Marie Gaimard, lecturer at ENSA Normandie and researcher at ATE, and Gilles-Antoine Langlois, professor at ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine and researcher at EVCAU.

This call for papers explores this architecture/politics relationship along three distinct lines of investigation - architecture being, in transversalearchitecture is understood on urban and landscape scales, and in terms of regimes of historicity:

1/ Architects' political commitment and the examination of its expression in public events, broadcast interviews, published works, architectural journals; architects' professional organizations, their conceptions of architecture and their political aims;

2/ The work of architecture itself as an asserted and articulated instrument of a political vision of space, conceived as likely to create the form for a transformation of society;

3/ Architectural education and politics: analysis of the teaching methods used in different periods and places, what they say about the societies that make them up and their visions of the architect's status in the city; analysis of the formation, continuity and contestation of these pedagogies and visions.

Articles must be submitted by October 1, 2023.
More information on thecall for contributions and the editorial charter.

visual: transversale n°6 - december 2022