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Volume 27, Issue 1

What matters? | Deljana Iossifova and Doreen Bernath
Editorials have rarely been included in The Journal of Architecture. This form of preamble is here reintroduced, as snapshots of thoughts from the team that stitched together the content with contributions from an extensive channel of scholarly accomplishment, reflecting currents and polemics that are neither predetermined nor incidental. It is intentional that editorials return as a form of ‘collaborative frame’ that suggests connections between disparate contexts of studies and opens dialogues amongst writers and readers now gathered through the staging of the issue, conjuring new adjacencies and relations, be it affirmative or unsettling.

With this issue, we are transitioning to a partly new editorial team. Joshua Mardell has joined the Co-editors Ioanni Delsante, Teresa Stoppani, and Nicholas Temple. Deljana Iossifova has taken over as Editor in Chief, Doreen Bernath is the new Executive Editor, and Ross Exo Adams continues as Reviews Editor. We are joined by a dynamic group of International Editors who bring their variegated cultural background, geographical expertise, and specialist knowledges to The Journal of Architecture. CONTINUE READING

Photograph Sources

Creole and vernacular architecture: embryonic syncretism in Caribbean cultural landscape- Figure 1. Caribbean Indigenous Architecture, (left) a drawing of hip roof casa (house), or ‘buhio’, 1547; (right) a sketch of buhio, 1851-1855, a late nineteenth-century illustration of the hip roof extended to incorporate a porch or veranda, suggesting an African contact influence, both from Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library

Domestic refugee architecture in Jordan: a socio-spatial analysis of chaotic camps- Figure 3. Jabal Al Hussein camp zinco roofed shelter, photographed by author Dima M. Hanna, 2018

Post-colonial architecture: deterritorialisation of apartheid township housing and mass-housing- Figure 1. A street in Kuisebmond with a row of original single-family dwellings, photographed by the author, 2017

Space standards and housing design: typological experimentation in England and Chile- Figure 16. Example of typical informal dwelling extensions at the outskirts of Santiago, original building painted in red, photographed by Alvaro Arancibia, 2022

Architectural remediation: the Nautilus project, a glass house immersed in media devices and electromagnetic waves- Figure 1. People gather in front of Nautilus glass house as photographed from Iglesia de las Agustinas (Church of Las Agustinas) across the street, photographed by and courtesy of Arturo Torres and Jorge Christie, Nautilus, La Nueva Casa Transparente para Armar en su Lote Suburbano, Santiago, 2000

Lina Bo Bardi’s School of Craft and Industrial Art and the Bauhaus legacy- Figure 2. Escola Parque Carneiro Ribeiro [The Park School], unknown photographer, c. 1958, courtesy of the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira

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