Positions: On Modern Architecture + Urbanism - Call for Papers
Submissions for Issue #1 are due 1 April 2009
Positions: On Modern Architecture and Urbanism/Histories and Theories is an international, blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the ongoing history, historiography, analysis, and theoretical reconceptualization of modern architecture and urbanism. Editors Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Cor Wagenaar aim not to settle once and for all the question of what modern architecture and urbanism has been or is. Rather Positions is a discursive forum for research on, inquiries into, and debate about modern architecture and urbanism; for the asking of new questions and the reexamination of old ones; for the framing of new research agendas and the reframing of familiar ones; for the excavation and analysis of unknown or understudied projects, institutions, and movements and the reexamination of previously examined ones; and for the deepening of established theoretical perspectives and their contestation by new ones.
As the only journal giving voice specifically to the discourse on modern architecture and urbanism after 1900, Positions aims to promote vigorous discussion amongst its many diverse participants and contributors while setting new agendas for research and scholarly inquiry. With interest in modern architecture after 1900, its history, and its present at an all-time high both among the general public and among scholars in a wide array of disciplines, this journal is uniquely positioned to facilitate an international and rigorously interdisciplinary forum on both contemporary and historical issues.
Issue #1: Open Submissions
Submissions for Issue #1 are due 1 April 2009.
Issue #2: Global Urbanisms
Within this huge topic of global urbanisms, we are interested in considering papers that examine the patterning of large metropolitan regions by focusing on the history of the design of large housing sectors. These residential urban elements-whether they are called "neighborhood units" in English, "mikrorayon" in Russian, or "unidades vecinales" in Spanish typically include a range of public uses and services and were a key element in what became the global town planning movement after 1920. We are interested in considering the impact of social, political, and economic ideals on the motives, programs, and design concepts of such large projects, which range from the canonical European projects of the 1920s to many others around the world designed on related principles. We seek papers that consider this form of urbanism from a variety of methodological approaches.
Submissions for Issue #2 are due 15 September 2009.
Positions's aim is to broaden the scope of reflection and theorizing on these issues. Authors are asked to submit papers to the editors, preferably in English. Papers should not be more than 6,000 words, in addition to complete citations in the form of endnotes. They should be accompanied by no more than ten images. If a paper is accepted for publication, the author will have the responsibility to obtain world rights to publish these images. E-mail submissions to: positions.on.modernism@gmail.com
http://www.positionsonmodernism.org/
Positions: On Modern Architecture and Urbanism/Histories and Theories is an international, blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the ongoing history, historiography, analysis, and theoretical reconceptualization of modern architecture and urbanism. Editors Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Cor Wagenaar aim not to settle once and for all the question of what modern architecture and urbanism has been or is. Rather Positions is a discursive forum for research on, inquiries into, and debate about modern architecture and urbanism; for the asking of new questions and the reexamination of old ones; for the framing of new research agendas and the reframing of familiar ones; for the excavation and analysis of unknown or understudied projects, institutions, and movements and the reexamination of previously examined ones; and for the deepening of established theoretical perspectives and their contestation by new ones.
As the only journal giving voice specifically to the discourse on modern architecture and urbanism after 1900, Positions aims to promote vigorous discussion amongst its many diverse participants and contributors while setting new agendas for research and scholarly inquiry. With interest in modern architecture after 1900, its history, and its present at an all-time high both among the general public and among scholars in a wide array of disciplines, this journal is uniquely positioned to facilitate an international and rigorously interdisciplinary forum on both contemporary and historical issues.
Issue #1: Open Submissions
Submissions for Issue #1 are due 1 April 2009.
Issue #2: Global Urbanisms
Within this huge topic of global urbanisms, we are interested in considering papers that examine the patterning of large metropolitan regions by focusing on the history of the design of large housing sectors. These residential urban elements-whether they are called "neighborhood units" in English, "mikrorayon" in Russian, or "unidades vecinales" in Spanish typically include a range of public uses and services and were a key element in what became the global town planning movement after 1920. We are interested in considering the impact of social, political, and economic ideals on the motives, programs, and design concepts of such large projects, which range from the canonical European projects of the 1920s to many others around the world designed on related principles. We seek papers that consider this form of urbanism from a variety of methodological approaches.
Submissions for Issue #2 are due 15 September 2009.
Positions's aim is to broaden the scope of reflection and theorizing on these issues. Authors are asked to submit papers to the editors, preferably in English. Papers should not be more than 6,000 words, in addition to complete citations in the form of endnotes. They should be accompanied by no more than ten images. If a paper is accepted for publication, the author will have the responsibility to obtain world rights to publish these images. E-mail submissions to: positions.on.modernism@gmail.com
http://www.positionsonmodernism.org/
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