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Horizonte
More than architecture.

The dictionary describes an architect as a professional, one who designs and develops buildings, draws up plans, and later initiates and monitors their execution. To a larger extent, this corresponds to the usual job description. The academic architectural training is certainly based on preparing for the role of the Architect-planner and Architect-builder. But what profession can claim to be clearly cut in our times? We wonder how the image of the architect has changed both from the perspective of the people in the field and beyond it. Architects seem to be bidding farewell to the need to build and are growing comfortable in new fields: fine art, politics, urban planning even literature to name a few. Are architects moving away from Architecture or are they pushing the boundaries of the field? Hans Hollein understands Architecture as being closely interwoven with Life Architecture wanders and interacts with society to reinvent itself. Due to the increasing flow of information in the Western world and the networking provided by new medias, we are capable of experiencing and comparing the built environment in different cultural, political, and economic dimensions. How does this change the focus of the architect? The versatility of the different perceptions of a city demands an interdisciplinary working mode to deal with the complex urban processes. This illustrates how architecture, urbanism and cultural studies seem to overlap, intersect. In addition to this conflict of niches, the European market is currently characterized by an oversupply of architects. Are architects forced to reinvent themselves due to need? How does the contemporary Architecture education react to the current changes? In the 2nd Issue of the magazine HORIZONTE How to architecture we examined the critical potential of the architectural education and discovered that reflections on architectural production and our profession in general is more important than ever. In addition we have in the 3rd Edition Re-definition detected a trend of new movements within the practice. Now we are interested

in why individuals are drifting away from building and becoming more engaged in other activities. Is it an escape from unemployment, an urge for self-realization, a need to better express ones individuality, a greater sense for responsibility towards society perhaps or pure chance what is moving us towards more than Architecture?

For the 7th issue of HORIZONTE we seek contributions that go beyond the limits of architecture and deliver new approaches to the questions at hand. Whether in the form of essays, projects or research we are interested in observations that explore, question and perhaps even force a new derivative.

Submission Guidelines
Proposals may be submitted as essays, projects, photographies etc. Contributors are kindly asked to send a 200-word abstract. Nonetheless further developed material can be sent along too. Essays shall not exceed a maximum of 4000, a project, photographic essay etc. description not 500 words. Text files in .odt- or .doc-format. Drawings as .pdf, images as .tiff-files. Texts should be unformatted in either Times New Roman or Arial. No use of automatic footnote-functions. Please attach numbered annotations at the end of the text. Source citations should be formatted in Chicago Style. (see www.chicagomanualofstyle.org) Please send a short bio (max. 50 words). Submissions should not have been published previously.

All submissions via e-mail to

HORIZONTE@ARCHIT.UNI-WEIMAR.DE
Deadline: 28.02.2013