Candide — Journal for Architectural Knowledge
Candide is a peer-reviewed journal based at the Chair of Architecture Theory of RWTH Aachen University.
Not unlike Voltaire’s fictional character Candide, who traveled 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 is released twice a year in English and German. One year after its release in print, an issue becomes available online as part of our open access policy.
July 17th, 2015 — 9:18 am —
Candide No. 9 is now available at booksellers or directly through www.hatjecantz.de. It features Gregor Harbusch analysing Ludwig Leo’s preliminary design for Hartmut von Hentig’s “Laborschule Bielefeld,” Gaia Caramellino and…
December 10th, 2014 — 1:23 pm —
From January 29 to 31, 2015 the second Candide Conference will take place at RWTH Aachen University. “Streitsache: Architecture as Matter of Contention” intends to probe the complex relation between…
December 10th, 2014 — 1:17 pm —
All articles of Candide No. 7 can now be downloaded free of charge as part of our open access policy. For all lovers of printed matter: Candide Nos. 6, 7…
September 4th, 2014 — 8:13 pm —
Candide No. 8 is now available at booksellers or directly through www.hatjecantz.de. It features Sascha Roesler writing on ethnographic representation in architecture, Danielle Hodgson analysing the iconography of security in…
July 25th, 2014 — 1:20 pm —
From January 29 to 31, 2015 the second Candide Conference will take place at RWTH Aachen University. Papers presented in the conference will be published in a forthcoming issue. Deadline…
November 21st, 2013 — 5:04 am — Event
Please join coeditor Anne Kockelkorn on Thursday, November 28, at 6 pm, ETH Zürich-Hönggerberg in a panel discussion on the question “Why are we still making books, still making journals?” on the occasion…
November 19th, 2013 — 3:47 am — Event
Please join us for a panel discussion on the crisis of large-scale housing production in the 1970s and its lasting impact on architecture discourse today Tuesday, November 26, 7…
September 20th, 2013 — 5:04 pm —
The five articles in the upcoming issue analyse the lasting influence of the crisis of large-scale housing production in the mid-1970s on the theory and practice of architecture. Read more…
October 10th, 2012 — 10:55 pm — Release
It is here, just in time for the Frankfurt Book Fair: our sixth issue, with contributions on acoustics and ruins, earth construction and systems thinking, as well as fictional oral…
April 11th, 2012 — 5:28 pm — Release
We are happy to announce the release of the fifth issue of Candide. To read more on the content, click here. To purchase, please contact your local bookseller or order directly from ACTAR.
