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Revista de Arquitectura accepted for inclusion in SciELO Chile collection

 

Call for papers 2026 Revista de Arquitectura  N.º 50. + N.º 51

 

Call for papers Revista de Arquitectura N.°50

 

ARCHITECTURE AND INVESTIGATION + FREE THEME

50th Issue | 35th Anniversary

Deadline for paper submissions: March 2, 2026

https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/announcement/view/396

 

No. 51. CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURES AND URBAN PROJECTS:
New Themes and Dimensions of the City + FREE THEME.

Deadline for paper submissions:  June 22, 2026

https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/announcement/view/397

 

Details and motifs: code and decoding of the architectural meassure

Authors

  • Sofía Letelier P. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile
  • Cecilia Wolff C. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile
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Abstract

In architecture, a detail always presents a puzzle at first glance: to be understood, one needs to discover the clue to access the precise mental space of reference for its dimensional meaning. This recursive uniqueness –proved here in its history, its evolution and in it’s versatile present state–, leads to the point where detail is
sometimes the project leitmotif and even the means of visual scaling, while at the same time it forces to presume the reason for its actual scale. In other words, its meaningful presence has to be captured to understand the whole.

Keywords:

Architectural detail , Architectonic leitmot ifs , Scaling clues , Scaling , Visual percepction , Dimensional percepction