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Practices in Research Journal

The "Practices in Research" Journal is an annual online open-access double-blind peer-reviewed journal for practice-based research in architecture. In the journal, architects explore the role of their practice in their research and vice-versa. The articles are developed from a selection of contributions to the Practice in Research conferences and may contain additional invited contributions. General information about policies (peer review, licensing, etc.) : see bottom of the page. The journal follows the DOAJ guidelines and is listed on the VABB/ECOOM website as a Guaranteed Peer Reviewed Content journal. 

Practices in Research #05 - Demolitions and Deconstructions

"What methods and processes do architects use when approaching an existing structure? How do they carefully and critically examine an existing building and how do they reveal its potential? What knowledge do they gain in the process of assessing what can stay and what must go? And finally, how can they afford to do so, given that architects' fees are still generally tied to construction costs, i.e., material and energy consumption? 

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PiR 05 – “Demolitions and Deconstructions” is looking for contributions reflecting on these questions related to careful yet experimental transformations. The contributions are expected to report about critical practices through which these questions are examined, staying close to its documents and outcomes."

Short abstracts to be submitted before the 26th of Februrary 2024.

Practices in Research #04 - Beyond the Mandate

The fourth issue of Practices in Research is a project of the interuniversity research group In Practice, supported by ULiège, KU Leuven, ULB, UCLouvain and UAntwerpen. ‘In Practice’ invites practicing architects to explore the multiple ways in which architects can engage the professional practice in academic research and reciprocally. ‘Practices in Research #04 - Beyond the Mandate’ broadens the work intiated in the three first issues, increasing the diversity approaches, subjects and profiles.

Content

BEYOND THE MANDATE Introduction - Benoît Burquel, Benoît Vandenbulcke, Harold Fallon, ULB, ULiège, KU Leuven
(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10568435)

FAST AND SLOW PRACTICE A visual essay of our methodology in scenography and architecture - Felix Schiettecatte, Lennart Vandewaetere, Marius Vaneeckhoutte (wissel architectuur studio, KU Leuven)
(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10568780)

NO CLUE - CLUES working with the morelli method. - Oliver Burch, Jakob Junghanss, Lukas Ryffel (8000.agency, ETH Zürich)
(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10568818)

UNCERTAIN SOILS IN EXPERIMENTATION architects and scientists representing the plural values of soils - Pierre Bouilhol, (ANMA, ULB, Université Paris 8), Agrippa Leenhardt (ANMA)
(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10568847)

MAKING THINGS. Practicing co-creation in the marginal territories of central Apennine.- Maddalena Ferretti, Benedetta Di Leo (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10568866)

RUINATION DESIGN Experimental preservation and archaeology of the contemporary past, based on art exhibition design in a modernist -post- socialist context. - Tomasz Świetlik, Michał Kulesza
(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10568885)
    
BIG BRICK HYBRIDS Propositions for brick-faced building design in the face of confusion, crises and regulations. - Lieven Nijs (BLAF architecten, UGent, FRWTH Aachen)
(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10568900)

BEYOND THE MANDATE OF THE ARCHITECT Or How Inquisitive Practitioners Redefine it. - Johan De Walsche (UAntwerpen), Christine Fontaine (ZED architects, UCLouvain) and Wouter Van Acker (ULB)
(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10568917)

Editors 
Benoît Burquel (ULB); Benoît Vandenbulcke (ULiège); Harold Fallon (KU Leuven)

scientific committee
Pier Vittorio Aureli (Dogma, EPFL), Ido Avissar (List, EAV&T Paris Est), Martina Barceloni (ULiège), Lisa De Visscher (A+ Architecture, ULiège), Johan De Walsche (UAntwerpen), Christine Fontaine (ZED architects, UCLouvain), Christoph Grafe (University of Wuppertal), Juliane Greb (Büro Juliane Greb, UAntwerpen), Arnaud Hendrickx (KU Leuven), Nikolaus Hirsch (CIVA), Karen Kesteloot (Studio Bont, KU Leuven), Eric Le Coguiec (ULiège), Paul Lewis (LTL architects, Princeton), Cédric Libert (ENSASE), Emilie Morales (Morales-Finch, ULB), Jarrik Ouburg (HOH Architecten), Martin Outers (Matador, UCLouvain), Claus Peder Pederson (Arkitectskolen Aarhus), Alex Renderos (UCA), Robin Schaeverbeek (KU Leuven), Wouter Van Acker (ULB), Xavier Van Rooyen (ULiège), Caroline Voet (Voet Architectuur, KU Leuven)

238 pages
ISSN: 2736-3996

(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10567717)

Practices in Research #03 - Explorations&Cartographies

The third issue of Practices in Research is a project of the interuniversity research group In Practice, supported by ULiège, KU Leuven and ULB. ‘In Practice’ invites practicing architects to explore the multiple ways in which architects can engage the professional practice in academic research and reciprocally. ‘Practices in Research #03 - Explorations&Cartographies’ broadens the work intiated in the first and second issues, increasing the diversity approaches, subjects and profiles.

Content

EXPLORATIONS&CARTOGRAPHIES Introduction - Benoît Burquel, Benoît Vandenbulcke, Harold Fallon, ULB, ULiège, KU Leuven (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6973584)

INDUCTIVE RESEARCH From Practice to research. To practice again - Thibaut Barrault, Cyril Pressacco, EAV&T Paris Est, ENSA Normandie, Barrault Pressacco, architecture, urbanisme (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6973576)

PRIMARY STRUCTURES Factories - Floris De Bruyn, Philippe De Berlangeer and Frederick Verschueren, GAFPA, KU Leuven (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6973568)

FLÂNEUR123 - Els Van Meerbeek, Carton123 architecten, KU Leuven (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6973548)

EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE - Salvator-John Liotta, Fabienne Louyot, Laps Architecture, ULB, ENSA Paris-Belleville (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6973539)

MAPS OF INHABITED TERRITORY About the “Atlas de récits d’un territoire habité - Walcourt” - Virginie Pigeon, Pigeon Ochej Paysage, ULiège (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6973531)

ARCHITECT DESIGNED Influences, observations and their outcomes - Thomas Finch, Morales Finch Architects (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6973524)

THE CARTOGRAPHY OF aNNo Interlocking design roles of the archaeologist, the scenographer, and the architect - Stijn Cools, aNNo architecten, KU Leuven (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6973513)

CLOSING FRAGMENTS - IN PRACTICE, A CONTACT GROUP. Benoît Burquel, Benoît Vandenbulcke, Harold Fallon, ULB, ULiège, KU Leuven (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6949258)

Editors
Benoît Burquel (ULB); Benoît Vandenbulcke (ULiège); Harold Fallon (KU Leuven)


scientific committee for the conference
Annelies De Smet (KU Leuven), Wouter Van Acker (ULB), Sebastian Kofink (Buero Kofink Schels, Hochschule München), Simon Jüttner (Buero Kofink Schels, Hochschule München), Rolf Hughes (KU Leuven), Lisa De Visscher (A+ Architecture, ULiège), Ido Avissar (List, EAV&T Paris Est), Harold Fallon (AgwA, KU Leuven), Benoît Vandenbulcke (AgwA, ULiège), Benoît Burquel (AgwA, ULB)


scientific committee for the publication
Asli Çiçek (Asli Çiçek, U Hasselt), Caroline Voet (Voet Architectuur, KU Leuven), Karen Kesteloot (Studio Bont, KU Leuven), Bram Aerts (Trans architectuur, stedenbouw, KU
Leuven), Claus Peder Pedersen (Arkitectskolen Aarhus), Arnaud Hendrickx (KU Leuven), Nel Janssens (KU Leuven), Johannes Kuehn (Bauhaus Weimar), Xavier Van Rooyen (U Liège), Eric Le Coguiec (U Liège)
Double-Blind Peer Review : each contribution reviewed by two referees except the visual essays "Flâneur123" and "Architect Designed".

195 pages
ISSN : 2736-3996

(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6973587)

Practices in Research #02 - Tour d'Horizon

The second issue of Practices in Research is a project of the interuniversity research group In Practice, supported by ULiège, KU Leuven and ULB. ‘In Practice’ invites practicing architects to explore the multiple ways in which architects can engage the professional practice in academic research and reciprocally. ‘Practices in Research #02 - Tour d’Horizon’ broadens the work intiated in the first issue, increasing the diversity approaches, subjects and profiles.

Content

S611. Laurent Didier, Mathieu Le Ny, Louis Leger, BAST - ENSA Toulouse (www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4727084)

LIVING WITH EXTERNALITIES. The refurbishment of Charleroi’s Palais des Expositions in a post-growth context. Marie Pirard - AM architecten jan de vylder inge vinck - AgwA, UCLouvain (www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4727013)

FROM THE HAND TO THE MIND TO THE HAND. Construction as an act of design, Drawing as an act of analysis. João Quintela, Tim Simon, JQTS, ETSAM, TU Berlin, CEACT/UAL, HCU Hamburg (www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4727101)

#01#02#03. Aurélie Hachez, AHA, TU Delft (www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4727112)

ABOUT CONDITIONS. Dries Rodet, Truwant + Rodet +, ENSA Versailles (www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4727120)

CLOSING FRAGMENTS. About practice and knowledge. Pauline Lefebvre, Robin Schaeverbeke, Benoît Vandenbulcke, Harold Fallon, Dries Rodet (www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4727125)

Editors
Benoît Burquel (ULB); Benoît Vandenbulcke (ULiège); Harold Fallon (KU Leuven)

Scientific Committee
Georges Pirson (ULB); Julie Neuwels (ULiège); Pauline Lefebvre (ULB); Rolf Hughes (KU Leuven); Iwan Strauven (ULB); Robin Schaeverbeke (KU Leuven); Harold Fallon (AgwA & KU Leuven); Céline Bodart (ENSA Paris La Villette); Benoît Vandenbulcke (AgwA & ULiège); Cécile Chanvillard (A Practice & UCLouvain); Asli Çiçek (Asli Çiçek & U Hasselt); Caroline Voet (Voet Architectuur & KU Leuven); Lisa De Visscher (A+ Architecture in Belgium & ULiège)
Double-Blind Peer Review : each contribution reviewed by two referees except the keynote contribution "Closing Fragments".

154 pages
ISSN : 2736-3996

Practices in Research #01 - First Steps and False Alarms

Practices in Research #01 First Steps and False Alarms contains four invited contributions of practicing architects who engage their practice in academic research.The album ‘First Steps & False Alarms’ (Kilgour, 1995) assembles recordings from the artist’s home tape archive, proposing to discover his creative starting points, his explorations and experiments from a period of five years, shaping a musical personality. Similarly, ‘Practices in Research #01’ does not make a priori assumptions about distinctions between realisations from the practice and theoretical reflections. As such it is an experimentation: it poses questions and situations, it proposes answers and actions.

Content

FIRST STEPS AND FALSE ALARM Introduction - Benoît Burquel, Benoît Vandenbulcke, Harold Fallon, ULB, ULiège, KU Leuven (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6983262)

IN THE BEGINNING AND THE END Apophenia, the Origin of Architecture and SUGIBERRY - Johannes Berry, KU Leuven, Sugiberry (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6985223)

ORIGINAL AMBIGUOUS A comparative study to understand and reveal the ineffable as sense-generating - Steven Schenk, KU Leuven, Schenk Hattori Architecture Atelier (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6985247)

SPATIAL OXYMORONS Forms of Meeting and Mutations; Drawing Distinctions; In an Ecology of Practices; Dic Cur Hic - Tomas Ooms, KU Leuven, Studio Tuin en Wereld (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6985259)

LANDSCAPE CO-CARTOGRAPHY Project in filigree - Virginie Pigeon, ULiège, Pigeon Ochej Paysage (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6985265)

Editors 
Benoît Vandenbulcke (ULiège), Benoît Burquel (ULB), Harold Fallon (KU Leuven)


Scientific committee
Martino Tattara, Asli Ciçek, Maurizio Cohen, Benoît Burquel, Benoît Vandenbulcke, Harold Fallon
double-blind peer review : each contribution reviewed by two referees


102 pages
ISSN : 2736-3996

(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6983214)

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