Ardeth’s Call

Can the project of architecture be considered a field for scientific research? Fourteen invited contributions answer the call drafted by the Director and the Editorial Board of “Ardeth” in Fall 2016. With this first issue, and specifically with the call for papers, “Ardeth” proposes a number of programmatic statements inviting a reflection on the reasons for building a theoretical discourse around a practice such as the project of architecture:   «“Ardeth” sets out to define this field as sep..

Architectural Design Theory

Unlike the many magazines that revolve around the architectural world, Ardeth concerns neither with outcomes (architecture) nor with the authors (architects). Ardeth concerns instead with their operational work, i.e. projects. The shift from subjects (their good intentions, as taught in Universities and reclaimed in the profession) to objects (the products of design, at work within the social system that contains them) engenders an analytical and falsifiable elaboration of the complex mechanisms that an open practice such as design involves. Through a process of disciplinary redefinition, Ardeth explores the falsifiability of design hypotheses as the object that allows the project to scientifically confront errors and approximations