Call for Papers for Forum A+P #25
“Going high! The pros and cons of city verticalization”
“FORUM A+P” – Interdisciplinary Journal of Architecture and Built Sciences” – invites submissions of original research from scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students to be considered for the upcoming issue Nr. 25 titled “Going high! The pros and cons of city verticalization.”
Guest Editors: Dr. Fabrizio Aimar, Dr. Ermal Hoxha, Dr. Keti Hoxha
Abstract: The high-rise is recognized worldwide as a symbol of ‘progress’ and ‘technological’ power, an ‘urban monument’ capable of turning the spotlight on itself, bearing praise and criticism. No doubt, by its sheer size and shape, the skyscraper is first of all and inevitably a sign, minimally a sign of itself, even (or especially) when its referentiality is putatively kept at a minimum. Yet, no sooner has the skyscraper announced its absolute, vertical self-referentiality than it starts to work laterally and horizontally, to conjure, structure, and mobilize a field of other signs, objects, contexts, neighborhoods, buildings, styles, cultures, technics, knowledge, ideologies, and desires.
Consequently, the call for papers aims to inquire and speculate about the skyscraper as a global condition yet framed from the context of an unbridled verticalization of the city of Tirana in the last two decades, and how a such phenomenon is currently affecting and will bear on the transformation of the city.
Topics: Five topics are proposed with related keywords to widely debate the topic, as follows:
- High-rise buildings and history (#liberalism, #international style, #modernism, #architecturalcriticism);
- High-rise buildings and concept, design studio, and form-finding (#process, #case studies, #software, #climatechange, #forms follow function, #forms follow climate);
- High-rise buildings and urbanism (#urban morphology, #social impact, #public transportation, #services);
- High-rise buildings and cladding (#typologies, #materials, #wind action, #facade assembly);
- High-rise buildings and structural aspects (#soils, #foundations, #vertical frames; #horizontal frames, #materials).
Submission guidelines: All articles will be single-blind peer-reviewed by the International Scientific Committee. The selected papers will be published as articles in the monographic issue of Forum A+P, in November 2022. Papers can be sent to: forumap@universitetipolis.edu.
You may find all the necessary information at the following link: https://forumap.org/
