Archi-Texts e-journal: An introduction

Archi-Texts e-journal is an International Journal which aims to create an intellectual frame of reference, and to support an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture and design in society. It specifically promotes phenomenological forms of inquiries that ascertain the ways in which people experience the spaces created by architects or by themselves. One of its intentions is to promote an understanding of how architects approach the task of design, theoretically and philosophically as well as conceptually and experientially, enriched by one’s own understanding of architecture.

In the current journal landscape on architecture, interior design and landscape architecture, there is a notable absence of research publications that address the central tenant of design: the core activity of all the architectural professions such as main stream architecture, interior design and landscape architecture. Amon those who practice those professions, it is well understood that the central task of the design activities is the production of ‘spatial experience’ by means of articulating forms, materials, textures, colours and multi-faceted characteristics of built-things. However, the essence lies in the non-built: the spaces that arise from those articulations. People experience them, live in and construct their everyday life and experience with the spatial experiences being an inescapable context of life. Indeed, the experienced spaces become ‘places’ and people exist in place as an undetachable component of human existence. However, most contemporary research on built-environments: architecture, interior design and landscape architecture have chosen to focus on the peripheral issues of the built-environments rather than this central issue.

This journal aims to offer opportunities for those who explore this undeniable spatial experiential relationship that manifest between people and space. Thus, the Archi-Texts e-journal encourages the architects in practice, as well as those in academia, who are involved in the design of things: buildings and architecture to probe deeper in to the nuances of this relationship, by looking at how architects approach the very essence of the production of space, how people themselves produce space and how they experience them. Needless to say, people are affected by the quality of those spaces and at the end of the day, that is the essence of architecture: interior design and landscape.

The Archi-Texts e-journal promotes the examination of spaces from the minute room corners to cities and the wider landscape in which Man exists at the centre surrounded by these spaces. Architectural spaces, understood as being ‘charged by the characteristics of things’ being different from the ‘empty spaces’ defined just by geometry is at the core of this distinction. Papers looking between spaces and places of everyday settings as well as designed settings are bound to expand our understanding about the relations between people and their surroundings and enable the professionals to make them better for the upliftment of the human habitat.

Invitation: Submit Research Papers to the Archi-Texts e-journal

Archi-Texts e-journal invites scholars dealing with architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and allied fields of inquiries of the human settlements and the built-environment to submit papers for the forthcoming issues. Reviews of submitted papers will reach the authors within a month and the authors will be guided to develop the papers to the expected standards; In other words, We help the authors to develop the papers through constructive criticism and reviews in order to get their papers published, if they reach the standards. Prepare the paper as per the guidelines and upload the formatted paper as a Word document. Please do not send PDF files.

Guidelines and the Template

Further information about submission Guidelines can be found on the Guidelines page.