Footprint 37 Architectural Theories, Their Performance, Quality and Effect: An Appraisal

+++Architecture, Intelligence and Transdisciplinarity+++ +++Jorge Mjía Hernández, Jasper Cepl [eds.]+++ ISBN 978-94-93329-71-3 Price € 25,00 Issue Volume 19, no.2 Issue editors Jorge Mjía Hernández, Jasper Cepl Executive editors Stavros Kousoulas, Aleksandar Staničić Editorial Board Esin Kömez, Gert van der Merwe, Victor Muñoz Sanz, Angeliki Sioli, Alina Paias, Dulmini Perera FP Advisory Board Stephen Cairns, K. Michael Hays, Hilde Heynen, Ákos Moravánszky, Michael Müller, Frank Werner, Gerd Zimmermann Copy editor Heleen Schröder Layout editor Lila Athanasiadou Number of pages 96 Book size 21 x 29.7 cm Binding softcover Language English Release date Autumn/Winter 2025, release printed version April 2026 Publisher Jap Sam Books Co-publisher Published in cooperation with Architecture Theory Chair (TU Delft) and Stichting Footprint +++ | Footprint is a peer-reviewed architecture and theory academic journal Footprint 37 asks if it is actually possible, useful, or even necessary to appraise theories of architecture. The articles and reviews included in the issue examine the potential purpose such appraisal might have, who should do it, and when should it take place. According to the issue contributors, appraisal can consist in analysing and classifying theories accordant with their epistemological and/or pragmatic orientation. Some theories will inevitably incorporate substantial portions of tacit knowledge, either because they are deliberately shielded from criticism or because they contain practical know-how that simply hasn’t found adequate means for systematic conceptualization. Consequently, the pragmatist assumption that the quality of a theory can be measured in relation to its practical effects should also account for unforeseeable effects and generative potential. Furthermore, we are reminded that every act of appraisal is often accompanied by feelings of apprehension, and that it is always possible to alleviate those feelings by diffusing, relativising, and thus relaxing http://footprint.tudelft.nl/ journals.open.tudelft.nl/footprint