IJAC
The International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC) is an exciting peer-reviewed journal founded by international organizations dedicated to promoting collaborative research and development of computer-aided architectural design. IJAC is committed to deepening the understanding of the foundations of digital systems for architectural design and the technologies enabling their development and application.
There are four issues of IJAC per year: published in both electronic and hard copies. Successively, one issue each year is supervised by Editorial Board members from its four founding organizations:
eCAADe - Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in EuropeACADIA -Association of Computer Aided Design in ArchitectureSIGraDi - Sociedad Iberoamericana de Grafica DigitalCAADRIA -Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in AsiaThe new Journal is also strongly supported by the CAADFutures Foundation and the Foundation also contributes to the editorial arrangements for IJAC.
The journal features high-quality, original research papers (including state-of-the-art reviews), brief papers, and letters in all theoretical and technological areas that make up the field of Architectural Computing. Certain issues will have contemporary themes.
Current ACADIA Special Issue
Ecological Levers: On Degrees of Autonomy and Interdependence
As architects grapple with the changing landscape of research and practice in the context of global climate change and uncertainty, important questions arise regarding the discipline’s entanglements with broader ecological systems. How can architecture play a more direct role in engaging with and negotiating between ecosystems, biological, political, or otherwise? What role might computation play in such engagements—both technically as an interface with complex systems, and conceptually in advocating for expanded sensibilities of interdependency and relational coexistence? How might computational methods and emerging modalities of automation, perhaps paradoxically, subvert inherited legacies of irreconcilable binaries between the natural and the technological, to offer new and synthetic models of design, fabrication, and cohabitation?
Guest Editors: Ehsan Baharlou, Adam Marcus (chair), Sina Mostafavi, Tsz Yan Ng, and Maria Yablonina
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Current Call for Submissions
Rebalance & Reciprocity: Emergent Topics in Architectural Computing
The International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC) invites contributions to a special issue dedicated to the theme “Rebalance and Reciprocity” - an inquiry into how architectural computing navigates structural, social, and technological dynamics in the wake of rapid innovation. This issue calls for critical work that interrogates how computational systems encode relationships - between designers and tools, individuals and collectives, humans and nonhumans, materials and systems - and how these relationships might be rebalanced in the pursuit of more reciprocal, inclusive, and contextually responsive design practices.
In contrast to deterministic narratives of unchecked technological disruptions, this issue seeks work that emphasizes recalibration and critical reflection. We are interested in how architectural computing can foreground non-binary processes that focus on negotiating the complexity of optimization, automation, and/or collaboration to facilitate varied forms of stewardship in our built environment. Topics may explore how systems negotiate new distributions of authorship, how tacit or affective forms of knowledge are reintegrated into digital workflows, and how emerging tools mediate values, labor, and participation across diverse contexts and publics.
Click here to view the full IJAC Call, submission guidelines, and instructions for Papers
IJAC LINKS
IJAC LINKS
IJAC Home Page (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jac)