ktisma journal

KTISMA

κτίσμα

is:

    a publication edited by graduate students at the university of oregon's department of architecture.  

   a focused forum of discussion about environments; how they are created, imagined, interpreted, presented, and questioned. 

each issue of KTISMA is a platform for the conversations within the school to provoke a discourse at large. 

issue #1:  "you hold the gun!" 

" . . . he wanted to arrest the flight of a gull so as to be able
to see in a fixed format every single successive freeze-frame of a continuous

flow of flight, the mechanism of which had eluded all observers
until his invention. What we need is the reverse: the problem with buildings
is that they look desperately static. It seems almost impossible to
grasp them as movement, as flight, as a series of transformations . . . " -Bruno Latour, Albena Yaneva

motivated by Bruno Latour's 2008 article "Give me a Gun and I Will Make All Buildings Move: An ANT’S View Of Architecture." KTISMA asks for projects, of any printable media, that:

   - approach the environment as a "moving project"--beyond its imaging as something fixed and static

   - expand notions of communication (drawing, writing, photography, etc...) as an instrument of demonstration rather than representation 

   - resolve the breach between linear representation to complex manifestation
  - demonstrate the multi-faceted and dynamic culture of architectural proposals 

   - anticipate time-based properties of the built environment: decay, growth, modification, transformation, durations, and intervals 

submissions date:

6/2010

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submission specifications: 

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publication date:

9/2010