Call for Papers /// Footprint 40, Delft Architecture Theory Journal

Footprint 40, the open access Delft Architecture Theory Journal, is now welcoming abstracts on Conditions of Architecture.

Footprint 40 (edited by Alina Paias and Catherine Koekoek) explores the theoretical and practical implications of situating architecture within its conditions of production. Architects are used to seeing themselves as the ones who set conditions, as the designers of spatial constraints within which certain activities will develop. Issue 40 of Footprint will explore what happens when we start to consider that architects are in turn also conditioned by social, cultural, economic and material constraints. We welcome contributions that analyse specific situated practices of architects and their work, as well as theoretical explorations.

Proposals for full articles (6000–8000 words) and shorter contributions and visual essays (2000 words) will be evaluated by the editors in the form of abstracts (max. 600 words, with a sample image for visual essays). The editors welcome contributions that draw on personal experience, that use transdisciplinary methods, and that are authored by or in alliance with workers in the architecture, engineering and construction industry. Abstracts must be submitted by 15 December 2025.

 Footprint 40 will be published in the spring of 2027.

 You can find the full call online through the following link to our platform: Footprint 40: Conditions of Architecturehttps://journals.open.tudelft.nl/footprint/announcement/view/454

For submissions and all other inquiries and correspondence, please contact Alina Paias and Catherine Koekoek at editors.footprint@gmail.com.

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