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PRAXIS 13: Eco-logics
Hermaphroditic polar bears, melting ice caps, water shortages, rising sea levels, crop failures, and catastrophic storms: these are just a few of the consequences and predicted effects of global warming. Scientists cite buildings as the source of between 35% and 50% of greenhouse gas emissions annually, a fact which places architects at the center of the problem, but also mandates a disciplinary response. Most of the current debate surrounding sustainability relies on negative rhetoric (scare tactics) that incentivize immediate, realizable, pragmatic responses (LEED), rather than more radical and visionary solutions. Praxis 13 invites submissions of projects and essays that consider how architecture might use the logics of ecologies to move beyond received notions of sustainability.

PRAXIS 14: The Return to Narrative
Once upon a time, there was once upon a time. It was called Narrative, and, during the 1976-1986 climax of what was called Postmodernism, it had something to do with Architecture. It emerged critically through a series of adjacencies. Venturian pop appropriations; Gravesian classicisms; Hejdukian masquerades: all had something to do with History. Which had something to do with Memory. Which had something to do with Narrative. And in the years that followed, as architectural talkers increasingly spoke the languages of literary and structural theory, notions of Story and Sequence claimed a critical afterlife. Flash forward to the very late 00’s and the literary endeavor that is the journal you hold in your hands now addresses the ruins of this Spolia, and discerns within them the surprising foundations of today’s design discourse. Does it all end Happily Ever After? You tell us. What’s your story?

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Praxis 13 - Submission Deadline 15 August 2010