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Created in 2017 and published by the Italian publisher Rosenberg & Sellier, Ardeth is a semiannual journal in architecture and urban studies. Concerning with the operational work of the architects, i.e. projects. and their potentialities, the journal aims to open a space for discussion and reflection around the theory of projects.

Latest issue
9 | 2021
Race

Edited by Felipe Hernández

Architecture is an inward looking discipline. Its history conveys the norms of the discipline to an audience composed mostly of architects, who are familiar with the work of their predecessors-from whom they learnt, or for whom they worked. As such, architecture singularises the multiple processes through which space is produced, excluding difference in the pursuit of coherent narratives to sustain its authority, and does so mainly through the figure of the architect. For a long time now, critics have shown how that figure is principally male.
However, little has been said about the fact that the figure of the architect is also white; a racial classification that refers not only to epidermal characteristics, but to their national origin, education, and in most cases their class affiliation.

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