IJAC: Call for Papers

International Journal of Architectural Computing

Published by Multiscience

Integrative Design

Volume 7, Issue 3, 2009
ISSN 1478-0771

Coordinating Editor:
Branko Kolarevic branko.kolarevic@ucalgary.ca University of Calgary, Canada

Call for Papers

Terms such as "integrated practice" and "integrated design" have emerged over the past several years as relatively new paradigms in a number of design and design-related professions, most recently in architecture.

What is usually meant by these terms is a multidisciplinary, collaborative approach to design in which various stakeholders-for example, architects, engineers, contractors, and fabricators in the context of building industry-participate jointly from the earliest stages of design, fluidly crossing the conventional disciplinary and professional boundaries to deliver an innovative product at the end.

Two different trajectories are often pursued: the horizontal one that integrates different disciplines across the same scale, and the vertical one that integrates similar disciplines across different scales. In the context of building design, a horizontal strategy would mean the integration of architecture, engineering, and construction, and a vertical one would mean the integration of industrial design, architecture, and urban design, for example. (Other, cross-axial combinations are also possible.)

This issue of the IJAC journal will pursue an alternative vision of integrated design, which is more open, fluid, pliable, and opportunistic in its search of collaborative alliances and agendas. This alternative approach is referred to as INTEGRATIVE DESIGN in which methods, processes, techniques, and technologies are discovered, appropriated, adapted, and altered from "elsewhere."

In this attempt to engage design as a broadly integrative endeavor, you are invited to submit papers that employ concepts, processes, techniques, and technologies from other domains such as biology, computer science, engineering, material science, medicine, etc. to discover and create something (a process, technique, product) that is qualitatively new. We are seeking innovative examples from research, education, or practice that illustrate the current integrative, computational approaches to design that originate in other domains.

Authors are invited to submit complete and original articles, which have not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration for another journal or conference. The submissions should be in one of these categories:

  1. Full-length papers (3000 - 5000 words, maximum length 6000 words) reporting original research.
  2. State-of-the-art reviews, which will be either perspective tutorial articles in rapidly evolving fields or comprehensive scholarly reviews of significant topics.
  3. Short papers (1500 ? 2000 words) presenting original research in concise form.

IJAC Paper Submission Guidelines

In order to facilitate the review process, authors are required to submit their paper by uploading to the IJAC review system. Before submitting, authors should make sure that papers conform to the IJAC template and guidelines, which can be downloaded at:

http://www.architecturalcomputing.org/downloads/IJAC_paper_template09.doc

The papers must be submitted in either Adobe PDF format (.pdf) or as a Word 97-2003 document (.doc). Please avoid using the more recent Word 2007 file format (.docx). The filename should be no longer than 8 characters (plus file extension). The file must not be larger than 5MB in size. Please use low resolution (72ppi) JPEG images for the online review. Higher resolution (300ppi) JPEG should be used for the final submission.

Special Notice

Properly formatted files should be uploaded at the following location, after completing all of the information on the page:

http://www.architecturalcomputing.org/review/author/submit.php

Authors should also notify by email the Issue Editor branko.kolarevic@ucalgary.ca that a paper was uploaded to the online review system.

Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline: .......... 1 Apr 2009
  • Notification of Acceptance: ... 1 May 2009
  • Re-submittal Deadline: ........ 1 Jun 2009
  • Submittal to IJAC:............ 15 Jun 2009
  • Publication Date: ............ August 2009

About IJAC

The International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC) is a peer-reviewed journal 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.

IJAC is published four times a year by MultiScience in both electronic and hardcopy. Successively, one issue each year is supervised by Editorial Board members from its four founding organizations: Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe), the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Sociedad Iberoamericana de Grafica Digital (SIGraDi), and Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA). Work is coordinated by Andre Brown (andygpb@liverpool.ac.uk), the Editor in Chief.

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