Candide –
Journal for Architectural Knowledge

Faculty of Architecture,
RWTH Aachen,
2009

Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge is a peer-reviewed German-English language periodical edited by the Department of Architecture Theory, Faculty of Architecture at RWTH Aachen University.

Not unlike Voltaire’s fictional character Candide, who travelled the eighteenth-century world on an eager but often disappointed search for knowledge, the journal’s editors have embarked on a twenty-first century search, in their case, of architectural knowledge.
Candide will be released twice a year, in spring and autumn. The inaugural issue will be released in November 2009.

Candide is a journal dedicated to exploring the culture of knowledge specific to architecture.

How is architectural knowledge generated, collected, presented and passed on? Which forms of architectural knowledge can be observed? How can knowledge generated in reference to a specific task be applied to other contexts? Which experts, designers and users, which institutions and organizations are involved? Which techniques, tools and methods are instrumental?

Each issue of Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge is made up of five distinct sections. This framework responds to the diversity of architectural knowledge being produced, while challenging authors of all disciplines to test a variety of genres to write about and represent architecture.

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