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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 40: Conditions of Architecture

2025-09-05

Alina Paias and Catherine Koekoek are editing Footprint 40, dedicated to ‘Conditions of Architecture’.

Footprint 40 explores the theoretical and practical implications of situating architecture within its conditions of production. Architects are used to seeing themselves as the ones who set conditions, as the designers of spatial constraints within which certain activities will develop. Issue 40 of Footprint will explore what happens when we start to consider that architects are in turn also conditioned by social, cultural, economic and material constraints. We welcome contributions that analyse specific situated practices of architects and their work, as well as theoretical explorations.

Proposals for full articles (6000–8000 words) and shorter contributions and visual essays (2000 words) will be evaluated by the editors in the form of abstracts (max. 600 words, with a sample image for visual essays). The editors welcome contributions that draw on personal experience, that use transdisciplinary methods, and that are authored by or in alliance with workers in the architecture, engineering and construction industry. Abstracts must be submitted by 15 December 2025.

Footprint 40 will be published in the spring of 2027.

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Current Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2025): Issue # 36 | Who’s Stupid Now: Architecture, Intelligence and Transdisciplinarity
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Footprint 36 explores architectural technicities that overcome poorly defined problems and reinvigorate (post)critical thinking, requiring a transdisciplinary mode of operation that breaks with the anti-intellectualist tradition of specialisation, professionalisation, and knowledge fragmentation. Rather than focusing on the essentialist question of what architectural intelligence is, Footprint 36 is dedicated to the pragmatics of how it occurs, who institutes it, and through which technicities it is archived and disseminated. This issue’s contributions examine the architectural prerequisites and ramifications of saving intelligence from the stupidity inherent in fragmented circuits of knowing and experiencing, while extrapolating on which technicities facilitate the formulation of architectural problems that address the pressing needs of our time. They do so by understanding transdisciplinarity as the coming together of diverse and heterogeneous disciplines based on their joint effort to take care of an architectural problem.

 

Issue editors: Stavros Kousoulas and Andrej Radman

Published: 2025-06-20

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