Field Journal Open Call for Papers

Call for Papers, Special Issue, Architecture is Climate

Guest Editor: MOULD

field is an internationally renowned, peer-reviewed, open access, indexed journal based at Sheffield School of Architecture.

field (11.1) follows the completion of the AHRC/DfG-funded research project Architecture is Climate. To say that Architecture is Climate is to challenge many of the orthodoxies, assumptions and protocols of architecture as it is professionally defined. To say that Architecture is Climate is to situate it within an unpredictable and volatile context, and this is daunting, scary even, for a profession that is founded on control. To say that Architecture is Climate is exposing, stripping away the layers of protection that any profession wraps itself within, leaving architecture in a raw state—but one which is both necessary and an opportunity.

For this special issue of field we invite papers in three interlinked categories:
—papers which explore the historical entanglements of architecture and climate in terms of their shared foundations;
—papers which narrate and interpret alternative spatial practices which face and rearrange those entanglements;
—and papers which imagine alternative futures for architecture and spatial practice.

Paper proposals, to consist of a 100-word author bio(s), 500-word abstract, key references, and details of any visual material due by 26 July 2024.