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J.A. Mejia Hernandez

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One and Many Details

Considering the Contingencies of Building as Empirical Evidence for Architectural Pedagogy

The study of built objects has always played a key role in the education of the architect. At the earliest stages of training most of us sat in front of buildings and drew them, trying to capture their overall features and minute details. What appears simple is, in fact, an extr ...

Placing Urban Writings

Narrative Technology and Possible Futures for the European City

The essay departs from the question: How can stories be used for the development of cities? In response, a theoretical framework is delineated that recognizes the built environment as a model that is both telic (a vision of a possible future) and technical (the means required t ...

Delft

Views on Delft

Around 1661, Johannes Vermeer painted what has become one of the most famous city views: the View of Delft. The city of Delft is depicted from across the water of the River Schie. We see the city as a collection of brick buildings with lower and higher towers, peaking into the sk ...

¿Independencia o xenofobia?

La arquitectura y las paradojas de la descolonización

The act of decolonizing can have quite different meanings, depending on the definition of the term colony used. In architecture, so-called decolonial studies suggest an opening towards new forms of knowledge. On the other hand, those who practice said studies often fall into diff ...
The qualities that characterise open works of art have become prevalent in mainstream architecture theory. Trying to elucidate why openness appears to mean so many different things and at the same time remains an ethereal concept, it seems worthwhile to reflect on potential just ...

Appraising

Transactions between architectures

Historias Entrelazadas

Una conversación sobre arquitecturas abiertas con Esra Akcan

Commentary on the role and possibilities of art in relation to current affairs. @en
This fifth issue of the Writingplace Journal examines different narrative methods, understood as procedures, techniques or ways of relating or recounting events, and how they can be used to appraise and imagine the city. The editorial process of the issue has been developed withi ...
Book review of the second edition of Site Matters, edited by Andrea Kahn and Carol J. Burns@en

How to Speak?

A conversation with Alberto Pérez-Gómez about the necessity of Language to Understand and Practice Architecture

Elaborating on a host of historical and theoretical references, in this conversation Alberto Pérez-Gómez suggests a course of action for the development of the architectural discipline; opposing the banality of scientism and rationalism, and recognizing instead the need for a deg ...

Architecture as Exchange

Framing the Architecture Competition as Contact Zone

The editorial introduction to this issue of Footprint follows a double trajectory. On the one hand, it describes an ambition for architecture historiography. The social sciences have long recognised the need for more comprehensive and inclusive methods for writing history. Among ...

Writing, Filming, Building

Using a Taxonomy of Moviegoers to Appraise Spatial Imagination in Architecture

How do we envision possible futures for the built environment? What allows us to imagine spaces that do not yet exist? While superstitious approaches to these questions often explain spatial imagination as an ineffable or arcane process, this article advances a simple description ...

Ideology or Methodology?

Aldo Rossi and Recent Architectural Historiography in Colombia

While Aldo Rossi's contribution to recent architecture is often evaluated in ideological terms, this paper holds that in the specific context of Colombia this contribution has issued in a series of historiographical considerations, which are best assessed in methodological terms. ...
In the editorial introduction of this issue of Footprint, the question of architectural form is approached from a population of minor perspectives. Inspired by Bateson’s metalogues, the authors wish to bring forward multiple questions on architectural form instead of a single gen ...