The submission deadline for all manuscripts for the Spring 2014 issue (Volume 68:1) is August 01, 2013, 5 PM EST. All submissions received after this deadline will be eligible for publication in future issues.
Design+
| Editors |  | |
| Interim Executive Editor | | Graham Livesey, University of Calgary |
| Associate Editor (Design) | | Amy Kulper, University of Michigan |
| Theme Editors | | Marc Neveu, Wentworth Institute of Technology |
| | | Marshall Brown, Illinois Institute of Technology |
| | | Sheila Crane, University of Virginia |
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The JAE invites unpublished text-based (Scholarship of Design) and design-based (Design as Scholarship) submissions for publication in the Spring 2014 issue (Volume 68:1) that explores how architectural praxis and pedagogy are being transformed by techniques, modes of inquiry, issues, discourse, and operational tactics drawn from other disciplines.
Currently, we are witnessing the emergence of novel forms of architectural agency. Whereas traditionally clients and institutions dictated the frameworks and specifications within which architects operated, now new forms of design agency are emerging in which spatial, discursive and curatorial practices proactively identify and execute their own projects. At the same time, today’s practitioners and educators are developing new forms of agency by combining more traditional modes of design with skill sets from other fields. How is the architectural project redefined when anthropology, real estate development, scientific inquiry, performance, filmmaking, or activism, for example, are no longer simply metaphors, but integral parts of the architect’s intellectual and professional activities? How do we educate and train architects so that they are adequately prepared for such proactive forms of agency and expanded fields of operation?
This call for submissions is intended to build upon and extend the parameters of a previous call for submissions on Design + Theory, Design + History, and Design + Technology.
Submissions will be subject to a blind peer review process. For further information refer to the Submit to JAE, Editorial Guidelines, and The JAE Process sections at www.acsa-arch.org/acsa-press/JAE.
The submission deadline for all manuscripts for the Spring 2014 issue (Volume 68:1) is August 01, 2013, 5 PM EST. All submissions received after this deadline will be eligible for publication in future issues.
Pre-Fabrications: Micro-Narratives on Architecture’s Material Culture
Pre-Fabrications, a new feature in the Journal of Architectural Education, will be a recurring column proffering micro-narratives (no longer than 1,500 words) and images on the material culture of architecture. Playing on the double meaning of fabrication, as something that is both made, and made up, this column will examine material proto-histories of those things that continue to fly beneath the disciplinary radar, but without which, architectural practice would be lost. As fabrications, these narratives can be actual accounts of architectural manufacture, or plausible fictions with heuristic potential for future disciplinary creation.
Tapping into the architectural legacy of figures like Reyner Banham and Siegfried Giedion, we seek submissions of alternative histories and subversive narratives from makers of architecture, critics, theorists and historians. Just as Banham occasioned a re-thinking of disciplinary possibility when he examined the history of architectural building systems in his seminal Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment (1969), echoing the contributions his teacher Siegfried Giedion made with Mechanization Takes Command (1948), we seek ruminations on architecture’s material culture. Pre-Fabrications will frame this speculative material engagement as a form of design research, and as such, submissions will be blind peer-reviewed by the JAE Design Committee.
Open Call for Submissions
This is a reminder that the Journal of Architectural Education continuously accepts submissions of previously unpublished work for blind peer-review. This includes text-based (Scholarship of Design) and design-based (Design as Scholarship) submissions that extend architectural inquiry in the areas of pedagogy, design, practice, history, theory, and technology.