Call por papers Revista de Arquitectura N.°51

Call for papers Revista de Arquitectura N.°51

 

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PROJECTS
Emerging Themes and Dimensions of the City + FREE THEME

In this first quarter of the 21st century, we have witnessed a paradigm shift that has resonated within the university context through the teaching of architecture and urbanism, the ways of understanding interdisciplinarity, reflection in both theory and project practice, and directly in the profession, with the responsibility architects and urban planners bear to address social and spatial changes in the new forms of contemporary dwelling, while also preserving and safeguarding historical heritage.

The pressing questions that arise today are: How can we approach project action from a new sensitivity to issues such as the environment, climate, natural resources, productive processes and waste, water cycles, energy, mobility, and territorial complexity, among other topics and dimensions? What contributions and innovations can be made from project-based and interdisciplinary research, with attention to the role that architecture and urban projects play in improving quality of life, fostering social integration, and addressing spatial inequities faced by significant sectors of the population in their territories? What spaces of critical or theoretical reflection, what types of projects, and what fields of action and intervention emerge within the specific knowledge of Architecture in the context of new dynamics driven by globalization across territories?

Considering this new scenario, Bernardo Secchi’s statement becomes very relevant: “The contemporary city, with its own unstable and perpetually unfinished nature, demands instead—as the modern city did at its beginnings—doubt, exploration, and experimentation; it requires more open projects and more articulated and stratified devices than those imagined for the modern city.”

Thus, it becomes an imperative to recognize that, on a global scale, a metamorphosis of our urban and rural systems has taken place, manifesting in the environment through a diversity of ways of life and territorialities. This situation demands new logics of architectural projects and ways of intervention in the city, enabling rehabilitation, renewal, and urban regeneration that, across different scales, produce a recovery and/or transformation of the pre-existing.

For this issue 51 of Revista de Arquitectura, we invite the submission of research, projects, and works of architecture and urbanism that emerge from contributions with other disciplines or fields of knowledge, as well as innovative professional practices in the context of human challenges and the specificities of today’s city and contemporary culture. Additionally, this call also welcomes proposals of intellectual speculation or project experimentation at the boundaries of the discipline, which in turn open a discussion on the various ways of understanding project actions in the city.

Finally, to close this invitation, we emphasize the importance of the theoretical conceptualization that accompanies a particular architectural or urban project action, so that it generates new knowledge or a distinct point of view on a specific facet of a given problem.

José Rosas Vera, PhD. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Invitation to publish in two sections, composed of original articles reviewed by blind peer reviewers:

RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURAL THEORY. Body of Articles. Range of 4000-6000 words

ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT RESEARCH. Planned and/or constructed works. Range of 3000-4000 words.

Deadline for paper submissions:  June 22, 2026

Guidelines for authors: https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/about/submissions