TY - GEN
T1 - New architectural criticism
T2 - 11th European Academy of Design conference
AU - Ewing, Suzanne
AU - Troiani, Igea
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - As co-editors-in-chief of the interdisciplinary, international journal Architecture and Culture, we aim in this essay to examine the space of architectural criticism in the review process of architectural publication. Using our experience as editors, we examine how the assessment criteria for research – objectivity, reliability, validity – impact on our ambition to create a rigorous space that is not only interdisciplinary but also transdisciplinary and ‘undisciplinary’ (Marshall and Bleeker in Rodgers and Smyth eds., 2010: 219) in what constitutes writing about architecture and culture. Building upon the writings of Elizabeth Grosz (2001: xv) who argues for the production of a positive ‘third space’ between disciplines, and Julia Kristeva (in Coles and Defert eds., 1997: 1-22) who identifies a hesitation to embrace interdisicplinarity within institutions, we propose that in order to facilitate true interdisciplinary architectural research we need to re-evaluate our refereeing culture, assessment criteria, and author-reviewer-editor relations to challenge established methods of reviewing design research. We discuss our decision to modify standard referee forms in order to engender positive and more open assessment of design research that may expand the disciplinary confines. In light of the flagged decline of architectural criticism as public activity and in public discourse, we set out the formulations and evolutions of architectural criticism and its influence on architectural thought and practice. We propose the growth of a more consolidated, positive, but possibly hesitant, ‘third space’ (Grosz, 2001: xv) of history-theory-design- criticism inside architectural publishing, which may contribute to constructing and influencing new public ‘outsides’ of interdisciplinary design research.Paper subsequently developed as an article: submitted to Journal of Architecture summer 2016, peer reviewed with revisions suggested
AB - As co-editors-in-chief of the interdisciplinary, international journal Architecture and Culture, we aim in this essay to examine the space of architectural criticism in the review process of architectural publication. Using our experience as editors, we examine how the assessment criteria for research – objectivity, reliability, validity – impact on our ambition to create a rigorous space that is not only interdisciplinary but also transdisciplinary and ‘undisciplinary’ (Marshall and Bleeker in Rodgers and Smyth eds., 2010: 219) in what constitutes writing about architecture and culture. Building upon the writings of Elizabeth Grosz (2001: xv) who argues for the production of a positive ‘third space’ between disciplines, and Julia Kristeva (in Coles and Defert eds., 1997: 1-22) who identifies a hesitation to embrace interdisicplinarity within institutions, we propose that in order to facilitate true interdisciplinary architectural research we need to re-evaluate our refereeing culture, assessment criteria, and author-reviewer-editor relations to challenge established methods of reviewing design research. We discuss our decision to modify standard referee forms in order to engender positive and more open assessment of design research that may expand the disciplinary confines. In light of the flagged decline of architectural criticism as public activity and in public discourse, we set out the formulations and evolutions of architectural criticism and its influence on architectural thought and practice. We propose the growth of a more consolidated, positive, but possibly hesitant, ‘third space’ (Grosz, 2001: xv) of history-theory-design- criticism inside architectural publishing, which may contribute to constructing and influencing new public ‘outsides’ of interdisciplinary design research.Paper subsequently developed as an article: submitted to Journal of Architecture summer 2016, peer reviewed with revisions suggested
KW - architectural design research
KW - new architectural criticism
KW - peer review
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-1-84387-393-8
BT - The Value of Design Research
A2 - Valentine, Louise
A2 - Borja de Mozota, Brigitte
A2 - Nelson, Julien
A2 - Merter, Sevi
A2 - Atkinson, Paul
PB - Sheffield Hallam University
CY - Paris
Y2 - 22 April 2015 through 24 April 2015
ER -