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Footprint is an academic journal dedicated to publishing architecture and urban research. The journal promotes the creation and development – or revision - of conceptual frameworks and methods of inquiry. It is engaged in creating a body of critical and reflexive texts with a breadth and depth of thought which would enrich the architecture discipline and produce new knowledge, conceptual methodologies and original understandings.

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Footprint 37: Architectural Theories, their Performance, Quality and Effect: An Appraisal

2024-03-14

This issue of Footprint asks if it is actually possible, useful, or even necessary to appraise theories of architecture. If so, what would be the purpose of their appraisal, who should do it, and when should it take place? If one considers, for example, that any theory of architecture is directed at the practice of architecture, should the former be evaluated through the latter? If so, how? And what would this mean, on the other hand, for theories that are deliberately formulated to dwell above practice? How can they be ‘judged’ — or don’t they have to be? Should we even expect theories of architecture to be appraisable?

Proposals for full and review articles will be evaluated by the editors in the form of abstracts, based on originality, methodological and conceptual clarity, pertinence, and contribution to the growth and development of knowledge on the subject. Abstracts must be submitted by 3 May 2024.

Footprint 37 will be published in the autumn of 2025.

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Vol. 17 No. 1 (2023): Issue # 32 | Spring/Summer 2023 | Rethinking the Architecture of Dwelling in the Digital Age
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Footprint 32 looks into the many ways the digital turn has impacted the architecture of dwelling. The issue originates from a simple observation: After the digital turn, the house as a paradigm for the discipline seemed to have gone missing from architecture debates. Recent theorisations of the digital in architecture have almost exclusively focused on new methods of production and notions of materiality alongside profound changes to the urban and social dimensions of the built environment. The question of dwelling after the digital turn leads to scrutiny of the history of the digitisation of the house and the shifting nature of domesticity, and to an exploration of involved motivations and values, oscillating between a techno-utopianism to a techno-capitalism. While the boundaries between real and virtual realms are blurred, the house and dwelling find a reconceptualisation in ecological and relational terms, thereby dissolving the house as a discrete object or entity. Privacy, autonomy, and physicality are in need of a rebalancing.

Issue editors: Dirk van den Heuvel and Nelson Mota

Published: 2023-09-20

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