Editorial
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1ABE Journal–Architecture Beyond Europe has always been keenly interested in what lies beyond architecture and urbanism as both conventionally defined disciplines and autonomous producers of built environment artifacts. The journal has a long-standing record as a platform welcoming high-quality, historical-based research on the myriad actors whose actions determine built environment production: much of the work published here cuts across professional lines and questions acquired notions of authorship (one key concern for architects in contemporary times) and, occasionally, of architectural culture as the preserve of architects. Architects are certainly often found to be essential driving forces in the processes discussed in our pages, but they share the honour with a cohort of other individuals and agencies—from engineers to developers and clients, from self-builder migrants to global bureaucracies—that substantially broaden our understanding of such processes.
2Built environment production processes themselves, in turn, naturally involve numerous fields of activity, other than architecture and urbanism. As such, it is our journal’s remit to foster and disseminate work that, while taking architecture and urbanism as starting points, investigates less frequented aspects of the built environment equation: the social and cultural, to be sure, but also and increasingly the financial and economic, among other more prosaic facets.
3The four papers included in the guest-edited themed section of this issue, entitled Small-scale Building Enterprise and Global Home Ownership—Beyond the Welfare State, together with the paper published in the Varia section, extend and deepen this strand of interest shared by ABE Journal and its readership. With in-depth research hailing from west and southeast India, Lithuania, Greece and Turkey, through methods including official records, architect’s and client’s papers and oral history, these works look at processes of built environment production with an enhanced focus on the multilevel networks of agents behind them and the multifaceted economic construct that architecture most often turns out to be. The built environment as a matter of economy—be it national, familial or individual—requires, as these papers seem to suggest, resourceful research and innovative, out-of-the-box critical readings that show it in combination with, not in opposition to, matters such as form, function and desire.
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Ricardo Costa Agarez, Johan Lagae, Tania Sengupta et Sarah Melsens, « Editorial », ABE Journal [En ligne], 20 | 2022, mis en ligne le 31 octobre 2022, consulté le 10 décembre 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/abe/13147 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.13147
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