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RESEARCH, REPORTAGE AND ARCHITECTURE
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Welcome to FAKTUR, a journal that celebrates research as the source of architectural imagination. FAKTUR—the German term for a dynamic concept and a set of techniques that influenced the Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century—identifies both a subjective medium and a technical, productive, and social construct, documented as visual traces in the final work of art. Subsequently, the term came to identify the organic process of materialization. Our use is intended as a counter-model to the utopian genre of culture elucidated in William Morris’s News from Nowhere. Rather than the ideal, ex-temporal, and ungraspable political space that operates at the intersection between representation and ideology, we offer a materialist critique of contemporary culture. We look forward to reading news from everywhere, enjoying the spatial responses that research generates in any media or form.
FAKTUR responds to the concerns of an emerging generation of architects and aims to bridge the distance between practice and
academic scholarship. FAKTUR offers an intellectual platform for scholars and designers to publish their research in the form of papers, together with the projects, buildings, exhibitions, photographs, etc., associated with or resulting from these investigations. The journal is interested in different methods for presenting and discussing projects of architecture that consider journalistic research, both academic and non-academic, as fundamental to the cultural construction of aesthetic identities. We seek out specific topics, locations, and architectural concerns, presenting micro-narratives that illuminate larger issues of our global culture. We are interested in the construction of material arguments from local perspectives, linking them to long-durée historical threads within architecture on the one hand, and current political, economic, and cultural concerns on the other. We are also interested in how these investigations affect, inform, or influence the design decisions architects are making in contemporary global culture.
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