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»Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge« is an academic journal in, on, and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution, and transmission of architectural knowledge. It explores methods genuine to the discipline and architectural modes of interdisciplinary methodological adaptions. Processes, procedures, and results of knowledge creation and practice are esteemed coequally, with particular attention to the architectural design and epistemologies of aesthetic practice and research.
Issue 3, »Species of Theses an Other Pieces«, is concerned with the form of the doctoral thesis in practice-oriented research. In reference to George Perec's »Species of Spaces and Other Pieces«, this issue takes the love for playing with forms, genres, and arrangements as its program.
Meike Schalk is an associate professor in urban design and urban theory at KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm. She is currently also an Anna Boyksen Fellow at Technische Universität München. Her research in architecture focuses on welfare spaces in the Nordic countries and Vienna as well as on feminist theory and practices.
Andreas Putz is an assistant professor in recent building heritage conservation at Technische Universität München. He studied architecture at TU Dresden, The University of Edinburgh and ETH Zürich where he completed his doctoral thesis in 2015. For his thesis dissertation »Der Bestand der Stadt. Leitbilder und Praktiken der Erhaltung. Zürich 1930-1970« he received the 2016 Theodor Fischer Award.
Tijana Stevanovic is a lecturer at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London and a post doctoral fellow at KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm. She completed her doctoral thesis »Incorporating Self-management: Architectural Production in New Belgrade« at Newcastle University in 2019. Her research is situated at the intersection of architectural history, critical theory, and cultural studies, focusing on questions of labor, technology, subjectivity, and knowledge production.
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Contents 5
Editorial 9
Species of Theses and Other Pieces 13
ATLAS. Comprehending Enclosures of Urban Nature 23
BRICK BY BRICK REDRAWING. A Digital Approach to Dismantling and Reconstructing a Historical Building 43
CATENA AND GLOSSES. Textualization through Spatial Writing and Materiality 63
COLLECTIVE WORKSHOP Transformational Encounters in the Trakia Economic Zone 71
DIARY. Coping with Discomfort - Use Patterns in a Syrian Home 87
ETHNOGRAPHY OF STONE. Gathering - Layering - Cementing 107
GRAPHIC NOVEL. Making Neualtland - Ficto-criticism in Architectural Historiography 121
METALOGUE. Conversing across Student and Teacher, Human and Inhuman Relations 141
MINIATURE Ugly Buildings - Reflections on the Reconstructivist Trend in Central and Eastern Europe 161
PERFORMANCE. Migrant Imaginaries through Soft Spatialities 181
POLYPHONIC MORPHOLOGY. Unseen Acts - The City as Reflection 195
PROTOTYPE. Cast Concrete Strategies and Fabric Formwork for Construction Waste Reduction 209
REFLECTIVE ANIMATION. Navigating the What-What 229
RESEARCH BY DESIGN. Architecture is a Time Machine 247
SCORE. Practices of Listening and Collision 261
SCULPTURAL ARTIFACT. A Gestural Reading of the Atmospheres of Sacral Space 281
SPECULATIVE DESIGN WORKSHOPS. Building Bridges for Flooding Cities 295
STORYBOARD. Character-Led Architecture in Architectural Pedagogy 311
TEXTBOOK. A Guide to the Teaching of Construction 335
WEBSITE. Site-Reading Writing Quarterly 355
WRITING-DRAWING An Entangled Archival Practice 377
Biographies 391