%0 Journal Article
%T Trans-disciplinarity: The Singularities and Multiplicities of Architecture
%A Lukasz Stanek
%A Tahl Kaminer
%J Footprint
%D 2007
%I Jap Sam Books
%X This inaugural issue of Footprint aims at understanding today¡¯s architecture culture as a negotiation between two antithetical definitions of architecture¡¯s identity. The belief in the disciplinary singularity of architectural objects, irreducible to the conditions of their production, is confronted - in discourse and design - with the perception of architecture as an interdisciplinary mediation between multiple political, economic, social, technological and cultural factors. With the concept of trans-disciplinarity, the negotiation between these two positions is investigated here as an engine of the ¡®tradition of the present¡¯ of contemporary architecture - the discourses and designs which emerged in the 1960s and defined orientation points for today¡¯s architectural thought and practice.
%K editorial
%K introduction
%K architecture
%K discipline
%U http://www.footprintjournal.org/issues/show/2