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Architectural World Journal, Volume 1: Issues 2, 3 August 2019, Features: Bruce Creager

Architectural World Journal, 2019

Content: summary; groups; organizations; education; experience; University of Nairobi (1970 - 1983); Hoskins Scott & Partners (1983 - 2001); SMMA (2001 - 7); Arrowstreet Inc. (2008 - 9); MIT Cambridge MA (2008 - 2013); Bruce Creager Architect (2007 - present); experience with Bruce Creager; cited references; about Architectural World Journal.

Contemporary architectural publishing. U+D, 1/2014

In order to understand the state of contemporary architectural publishing, I believe we should re-read the articles that launched new phases in the great journals of the past. Take, for example, the courageous editorial published in 1941 in «Costruzioni-Casabella», issue n. 157, where Giuseppe Pagano attacked mannerist traditionalism and monumental obsessions, initiating a discussion on the formalism of Fascist architecture which was to influence the architectural debate right up to the present day. Or take that of Ernesto Nathan Rogers, published in 1954 in «Casabella-Continuità», issue n. 199, where the famous quote by Marcus Aurelius “He who sees present things sees all that has been since the dawn of time and what will come about for all eternity because they are all of the same nature and species”, posed dynamic and highly topical questions concerning the relationship with history, the design merits of existing buildings and conservation as a creative act. Or take George Howe’s academic discourse, published as an editorial in the first issue of «Perspecta» in 1952, on training architects to be creators of a synthesis that draws together different disciplines, on architecture as the art of feeling, doing and thinking which influenced the future characters of Yale School of Architecture and had enormous influence on the Italian field as well. It was a time when the choice of what topic and text should be published was made by editors who were often architects, just as the authors of the articles were often active designers who, as well as being interested in maintaining the high quality of the journal and taking pride in it, all had a common concept of architecture that was generally shared, though expressed in a multitude of different results. The re-reading these texts and comparing them with the rest of the pages in those magazines, we cannot detect any similarity, even fleeting, with the state of contemporary architectural publishing; compared to the selfless commitment that those editorials expressed, today’s situation stands out in all its distressing, novel triviality.

Architectural World Journal, Volume 1: Issue 1: Article 4, pp. 21 - 95, 22 August 2019, Features: Author and reviewer tutorial 2019

Architectural World Journal, 2019

Content: about Architectural World Journal; ethics, codes and standards in research and publications; academic dishonesty, plagiarism and bias in research and publication; general format of papers (manuscripts) in Architectural World Journal; writing a journal manuscript for Architectural World Journal; suggested thematic areas and subjects for research and publication; instructions for authors from Architectural World Journal; list of references; Architectural World Journal: back issues and articles (Volume 1: 2019). Key words: journal tutorials, editors, reviewers, authors roles, guidelines and directions.

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Architectural Theory Review (21:3, 2017)

Architectural Theory Review, 2017

A special issue entitled "Designing Commodity Cultures," edited by Ana María León and Niko Vicario with contributions by Ginger Nolan, Sean Nesselrode Moncada, Nikki Moore, Carola Hein, Mohamad Sedighi, and Kian Goh.

What is to be Re-written? What is to Be Read? Harvard Graduate School of Design Symposium

Architectural critics make arguments for what could have been; architectural polemicists argue for what ought to be. The former comments on what has passed, the latter propels a course toward what has yet to come. These two figures often overlap. Architectural history and theory have always been a response to the made, attempting to pose solutions to problems not readily addressed from within the strictures of practice. Whether focused on the past or the future, there is a present tense required of both critic and theorist – a grounding in the here and now, even if it is only to reject the present scope of architecture. Hermann Muthesius argued for the need to re-invent German architecture by re-making German culture; embracing mechanization, but never losing sight of the primacy of dwelling and the coziness of home. Adolf Loos similarly focused on the sorry state of Viennese domestic interiors while rejecting foundational values of contemporary Austrian culture. Critic and polemicist alike write for his or her own time while envisioning another. This brings me to the heart of this brief talk, which begins as many histories do, with a story, probably apocryphal.

The Journal of Architecture

Architectural Design X: Thesis Studio | Course Syllabus | Drury University, Hammons School of Architecture | Springfield | 2015

Research in Designing Architecture 2003