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HorizonteMore than architecture.

7The dictionary describes an architect as a professional,one who designs and develops buildings, draws up plans,and later initiates and monitors their execution. To alarger extent, this corresponds to the usual job descrip-tion. The academic architectural training is certainly

based on preparing for the role of the Architect-plannerand Architect-builder. But what profession can claim tobe clearly cut in our times?

We wonder how the image of the architect has changedboth from the perspective of the people in the field andbeyond it. Architects seem to be bidding farewell to theneed to build and are growing comfortable in new fields:fine art, politics, urban planning even literature toname a few. Are architects moving away from Architec-ture or are they pushing the boundaries of the field?Hans Hollein understands Architecture as being closely

interwoven with Life Architecture wanders and inter-acts with society to reinvent itself. Due to the increa-sing flow of information in the Western world and thenetworking provided by new medias, we are capable ofexperiencing and comparing the built environment indifferent cultural, political, and economic dimensions.How does this change the focus of the architect? The

versatility of the different perceptions of a city demandsan interdisciplinary working mode to deal with the com-plex urban processes. This illustrates how architecture,urbanism and cultural studies seem to overlap, inter-sect. In addition to this conflict of niches, the Europeanmarket is currently characterized by an oversupply of

architects. Are architects forced to reinvent themselvesdue to need? How does the contemporary Architectureeducation react to the current changes?In the 2nd Issue of the magazine HORIZONTE How toarchitecture we examined the critical potential of thearchitectural education and discovered that reflectionson architectural production and our profession in gene-ral is more important than ever. In addition we have inthe 3rd Edition Re-definition detected a trend of newmovements within the practice. Now we are interested

in why individuals are driing away from building andbecoming more engaged in other activities. Is it an escapefrom unemployment, an urge for self-realization, a needto better express ones individuality, a greater sense forresponsibility towards society perhaps or pure chance

what is moving us towards more than Architecture?

Submission Guidelines

Proposals may be submitted as essays, projects, photogra-

phies etc.

Contributors are kindly asked to send a 200-word abs-

tract. 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.

For the 7th issue of HORIZONTE we seek contributionsthat go beyond the limits of architecture and deliver newapproaches to the questions at hand. Whether in the

form of essays, projects or research we are interestedin observations that explore, question and perhaps even

force a new derivative.