Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City: Announcements
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description: The journal ASTRAGALO was created in Madrid, at the request of its designer, activist and founder Antonio Fernández Alba in 1994 and published 19 issues until 2001. The label Revista Cuatrimestral Iberoamericana indicated its intention of periodicity (which was fulfilled in its last 4 years) and its scope or reference, as a kind of Ibero-American bridge that Antonio physically crossed many times and which he also fostered in his multiplied and distinguished collection of overseas friends. It also had some signs of identity such as a design based on a classic graphic image (produced by Antonio, who also prepared each batch of originals), a certain magazine/book packaging and the proclaimed ideological intention of being a written magazine, that is, without the profusion of imagery that characterises any publication on architecture, and even more so by rejecting the dazzle of that cult of appearances offered and still offer by the catalogues of glossy and colourful photographs. ASTRÁGALO was a written and austere magazine, in black and white, when more with some small help of line images and it will continue being like that. Keep reading THEMATIC AFFILIATION: Architecture | Fine Arts | Philosophy | Geography | History | Sociology. DATABASES: SCOPUS, Scimago, Qualis CAPES (A3), DIALNET, <a href="https://doaj.org/toc/2469-0503?source=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22filtered%22%3A%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22bool%22%3A%7B%22must%22%3A%5B%7B%22terms%22%3A%7B%22index.issn.exact%22%3A%5B%222469-0635%22%2C%222469-0503%22%5D%7D%7D%5D%7D%7D%2C%22query%22%3A%7B%22match_all%22%3A%7B%7D%7D%7D%7D%2C%22size%22%3A100%2C%22sort%22%3A%5B%7B%22created_date%22%3A%7B%22order%22%3A%22desc%22%7D%7D%5D%2C%22_source%22%3A%7B%7D%7D">DOAJ, Latindex Catalogue 2.0, OPEN Alex, REDIB, MIAR, REBIUN, GOOGLE SCHOLAR, ULRICHS, ISOC (CCHS-CSIC), ERIH-PLUS,Dulcinea, RESH, DICE, ZDB, OpenAIRE|Explore, ARLA, Base, Sherpa-Romeo, EBSCO, Scilit, Copernicus
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items: Call for papers for two issues (2026)
items: Update of the Astrágalo Journal Web Platform
items: Call for images for Visual Article #39
items: New HTML Article Publishing Format
items: Scimago awards Astragalo a Q2 rating for 2024
items: https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/astragalo/announcement/view/429
items: Extension of deadlines A36 and A37
items: Call for Papers Issue A37 Emancipatory Housing
items: Antonio Fernández Alba has passed away, Founder of the journal Astrágalo
items: Update of the guidelines for authors to the Chicago 17 standard.
items: Launch of A36 Bogotá Pluriversal issue
items: Colloquium on A32: Forms of Life in the National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC
items: Astrágalo admitted to the FECYT
items: Extension of the deadline for the monograph "City, gender and care".
items: Issue A31 (EXTRA) From Composition to Editing has been published.
items: Extension of deadline: THE LEGACIES OF COLIN ROWE; MATHEMATICS, CONTEXTUALISM, COLLAGE CITY AND BEYOND.
items: GU Design Network New York presents a new session seminar Contextualism Collage City and Beyond
items: A new issue of Astrágalo has been published. A30 "designing for the real world".
items: Astragalo, accepted by SCOPUS
items: New call for papers - Astrágalo Journal - 2022 and 2023
items: Launch of issue 31 (EXTRA) The legacies of Colin Rowe; mathematics, contextualism, collage city and beyond.
items: DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES FOR A30 "DESIGNING FOR THE REAL WORLD".
items: Published issue A29 (EXTRA) Divided Cities
items: The new issue of the magazine, A28 Ciudad Enferma/Sick City/Cidade Doente, has been published today
items: Next call A30 Designing for the real world
items: Extension of the deadline for submissions for A29 Divided Cities
items: Extension of the deadline for submission of articles for A28 Sick City
items: Released issue Astrágalo 27, 2020. Monograph. Delhi and Its Inhabited Imaginaries. Architectures of Living

Call for papers for two issues (2026)
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description: A41 EXTRA (2026) Decolonizing Spatial Justice from Palestine: Spaciocide, Resistance, and Resonant Geographies of Struggle Guest Editors - Short Bios Shaden Awad Architect and Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Engineering and Planning at Birzeit University. Her work focuses on spatial politics under settler colonialism, decolonial urban studies, and feminist and indigenous epistemologies of space. She has published on urban transformations and contested geographies, the social construction of home, and socio-spatial resilience, situating Palestinian space as a theoretical ground for rethinking global geographies of injustice. Mohammed Abualrob Architect and Lecturer at the Department of Architectural Engineering and Planning at Birzeit University. His work examines the intersections of infrastructure, spatial practices, and local knowledge within colonial and historical contexts. He explores material, environmental, and social networks that shape architectural and spatial formations, and engages in critical initiatives reimagining mapping and documentation through community practices, oral histories, and situated perspectives. Submissions until April 15th 2026 Peer review until May 30th 2026 Publication June 30th 2026 Introduction Spatial justice, as theorised by Lefebvre, Harvey, and Soja, links the production of space to struggles over rights, participation, and redistribution. Yet such approaches largely presume a legitimate state capable of ensuring justice. In settler colonial conditions, this assumption collapses. Spatial injustice is not a deviation but the governing logic itself: a tool for erasure, fragmentation, and dispossession. In Palestine, spatial violence manifests as zoning, militarized infrastructures, land confiscation, siege urbanism, control of mobility, and the engineered precarity of life. This systematic destruction of indigenous presence—what Palestinian scholars have theorised as spaciocide—renders liberal frameworks of…
creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2025-11-03

Update of the Astrágalo Journal Web Platform
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2025-10-09

Call for images for Visual Article #39
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description: Title: Blurring the Boundaries | Exploring the Intersections Between Architectural Education and Professional Practice The journal Astrágalo. Culture of Architecture and the City is now calling for submissions of images that will be included in the "Visual Article" of its official 2025 issue. This section, which interrupts and connects the written articles through a visual narrative, also serves as the cover image for the issue. This issue reflects on the intersection between architectural education and professional practice, questioning what it truly means to be "real-world ready" and how both university education and industry must adapt to respond to the social, technological, and cultural changes facing future architects. We invite you to submit images that visually represent this relationship between architecture, training, transfer to society, and professional practice, especially in relation to their spaces. Images that represent the spaces of and for: Professions practiced by architects that are not generically understood as architecture. Places for transfer outside the classroom: street workshops, community spaces, coworking spaces , etc. Architectures that do not appear to be such: ephemeral structures, minimal interventions, invisible processes. Experimental or collaborative pedagogical practices. Unconventional offices or workspaces. Representations of tensions between training and professional reality. Use of emerging technologies in teaching or practice (AI, BIM, AR, etc.). Projects with social or community impact. Images that highlight diversity, inclusion, and new ways of practicing architecture. The selection will be based on photographic quality, semantic capacity, and degree of pedagogical innovation. The selection, of approximately 15 images in total, will consist of one per author and is expected to provide a sample of what the authors understand about the relationship between spaces in the development of culture, and the transfer from the discip…
creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2025-07-23

New HTML Article Publishing Format
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description: This is an improvement that will make it possible to reach audiences in other languages, given that the usual browsers already incorporate very reliable translation tools. It is a pilot project that still has to present improvements in the presentation format of the texts. We hope that our readers will like this new functionality.
creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2025-05-30

Scimago awards Astragalo a Q2 rating for 2024
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description: The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicators for journals, calculated on the Scopus database, have just been updated: https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php. Astragalo has improved its ranking in 2024 from Q4 to Q2. https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21101171884&tip=sid&clean=0 It is an important milestone for us, as editors of the journal, but it is certainly a recognition of all those who have participated in 2024 as authors or reviewers. To them, our thanks. 2024 Architecture Q3, Geography Q4, Planning and Development Q2, History Q2, Philosophy Q2, Urban Studies Q3, Visual Arts and Performing Arts Q2
creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2025-04-07

https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/astragalo/announcement/view/429
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title: Journal Astragalo announces two new calls for papers: A39 (EXTRA) (2025) DOUBLE COLLAPSE: ECOSYSTEMIC AND HUMANISTIC and A40 (2025) DRAWING THE FRONTIERS | EXPLORING THE INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN ARCHITECTURAL AND PRACTICAL TRAINING.
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2024-11-18

Extension of deadlines A36 and A37
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2024-10-07

Call for Papers Issue A37 Emancipatory Housing
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description: Guest Editor: Dr. Jorge Minguet Medina (Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad de Málaga) The dwelling of the average citizen - not the palace or the convent - was not considered Architecture until the latter, subjected to the labour pressures of decommunalisation and the Industrial Revolution, became a mass of urban and overcrowded population. It was fear of this mass - as much or more than mercy for it - that drove the development of collective housing as an architectural discipline which, consequently, incorporates, from its very birth, a normalising aspiration conducive to the social conformity of its inhabitants. "If the working man has his own house, I have no fear of revolution", said Lord Shaftesbury, one of the first and most important philanthropists dedicated to the promotion and study of social housing. Today, a revolution is not to be expected. Perhaps because of this, housing conditions and access to them are escalating to levels of hardship and misery unthinkable a few decades ago, without there being a reaction to match the problem on the part of public administrations on any scale. Decades of deregulation and insistence on individualism and the laws of the market have turned the housing market not only into one of the deregulated ones, but also into one of the preferred markets for international speculation, which is increasingly alien to the fact of inhabitation. The globalised influences that confront the forced migration of people with the free flow of financial capital and digital nomads, have come to incorporate previously inconceivable difficulties, which refer to scales far removed from the local and regional. The public administrations responsible for housing, which operate at these smaller scales, are either helpless in the face of these problems or, if they have a neoliberal ideology, they deliberately reinforce them. Thus, the housing market, transferred from local to global scale, gradually ceases to be accessible to the average citizen an…
creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2024-05-16

Antonio Fernández Alba has passed away, Founder of the journal Astrágalo
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2024-05-08

Update of the guidelines for authors to the Chicago 17 standard.
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2024-02-29

Launch of A36 Bogotá Pluriversal issue
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description: The approach of this call is based on two of those that preceded us. On the one hand, the pluriversal politics and the ontological re-equipment of cities by Arturo Escobar in "Designing for a real world" (A30 in 2022) and, on the other, the dis-integration of "Divided cities" by Alona Fernández with Introduction to the number by Roberto Fernández (A29 in 2021). In this sense, we want to question the capital of Colombia about the challenges posed by the first author in order to solve what the second one shows. Some questions in this regard would be: Is there a transition towards a rururban pluriverse? What are the actions that operationalise these decolonial approaches? What does the city contribute to the debate on the future and how does it respond to the socio-environmental conflicts of the present? What socio-environmental conflicts (tensions) have shaped Bogotá and what are the recent urban challenges that respond to them? The "realities are plural and in continuous construction" explains Escobar (2020) and the urban civilising phenomenon, since classical times, tends to unify and separate us from the earth. Therefore, the concept of the pluriversal city explores the idea of a city where many worlds fit, reconnected with our planet and rethinking our modes of existence on it. We invite those who reflect, propose or execute actions on Bogotá - from architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, geography, the arts, philosophy, history or sociology - to publish their proposals or results in response to Escobar's call to terraform (re-earthing) cities, or to remedy the conditions of "division, segregation, tearing apart, conflict" proposed by Fernández. We want to place special emphasis on research that contributes to a new design for the pluriverse, a world where there is room for other worlds based on actions such as: recommunalising social life; relocalising social, productive and cultural activities; reinforcing autonomies in the face of globalisation; d…
creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2023-11-08

Colloquium on A32: Forms of Life in the National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC
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description: Watch recording on YOUTUBE: https://lifehub.csic.es/coloquio-formas-de-vida-un-dialogo-con-motivo-de-la-publicacion-del-monografico-de-la-revista-astragalo/
creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2023-11-06

Astrágalo admitted to the FECYT
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description: RESULTS OF THE EVALUATION We inform you that the result of the evaluation, in provisional resolution, of the 8th edition of the evaluation process of the editorial and scientific quality of Spanish scientific journals that the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) has carried out during 2023, has been AWARDED in the areas of Engineering and Architecture and Archaeology, Anthropology and Ethnography. Attached are the evaluation sheets with the assessment of each of the quantitative indicators as well as the score obtained in the visibility and impact indicator. Qualitative assessment obtained: 1.Structure of the journal and scientific orientation. Grade: 7 Observations: The journal, which has evolved over the last 25 years, aims to analyse the experimental and critical thinking of the current state of the art in the construction of cities and the craft of architecture. The current purpose of the journal is to "disseminate the work of intellectuals (academics and professionals, new or established) from all over the world who are able to offer transdisciplinary contributions that propose a critical analysis of Architecture in its insertion in urban cultures". The structure and sections of the journal are coherent with its focus and scope. The periodicity of the journal is annual, from 2021 each issue is titled as a monograph and the number of contributions is adequate, although for a scientifically oriented journal it would be recommended to increase the number of publications annually. The layout and design is congruent with the style of the journal. The images published are of an adequate resolution, but the quality of the graphics could be improved. Keywords could also be included at the beginning of the article. Contributions are accepted and published in English, Portuguese and Spanish. 2.Structure of the articles published in the journal and their scientific orientation. Grade: 7 Observations: It follows an editorial model in accordance with the p…
creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2023-06-28

Extension of the deadline for the monograph "City, gender and care".
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2023-05-29

Issue A31 (EXTRA) From Composition to Editing has been published.
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2023-05-05

Extension of deadline: THE LEGACIES OF COLIN ROWE; MATHEMATICS, CONTEXTUALISM, COLLAGE CITY AND BEYOND.
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2023-01-16

GU Design Network New York presents a new session seminar Contextualism Collage City and Beyond
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2022-10-17

A new issue of Astrágalo has been published. A30 "designing for the real world".
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2022-09-30

Astragalo, accepted by SCOPUS
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description: Astragalo has been accepted for Scopus. The Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) has reviewed the application and approved it for coverage. For broad information, the reviewer comments are copied below: This is a well organised journal publishing material that is being cited, underlining the importance of the journal in its research field. The only areas of weakness are that some of those involved lack SCOPUS profiles and some of the abstracts are short. The journal is likely to interest SCOPUS users. + The journal has scholarly relevance as evidenced by citations in other journals currently covered by Scopus. + In general, the content of the articles is consistent with the scope and aims of the journal. - Some of the abstracts are too short and without adequate detail to be of value in understanding the article content. + The journal has clear aims and scope/journal policies that are consistent with the journal’s content. + Peer review type is clearly stated and is supported by appropriate reviewer guidelines. It is expected that by the end of October 2022 the procedure will be completed and the journal will be fully linked to SCOPUS.
creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2022-09-17

New call for papers - Astrágalo Journal - 2022 and 2023
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description: A31 (2022) EXTRA. THE LEGACIES OF COLIN ROWE; MATHEMATICS, CONTEXTUALISM, COLLAGE CITY AND BEYOND. Colin Rowe transformed and changed over his lifetime, constructing and refining his intellectual and conceptual apparatus in response to his changing circumstances. There can be little doubt that the single most formative experience of the young Rowe was his time with Rudolf Wittkower at the Warburg Institute, after his earlier architectural education at Liverpool University, whose Professor Patrick Abercrombie guided the re-building of London after WW II. Rowe attempted unsuccessfully to adapt Wittkower’s diagrammatic analyses to Le Corbusier’s St Dié with his students Robert Maxwell and James Stirling. Later with the Texas Rangers he began to unpack the Wittkoverian geometry into the urban landscape, studying Le Corbusier’s League of Nations with his colleagues Robert Slutsky, Bernard Hoesli and John Hedjuk. He continued this process to recoup the traditional, classical city via Camillo Sitte in the 1950s with Alvin Boyarsky at Cornell, and then in the mid-1960s with Wayne Copper and Tom Schumaker. From this hybrid base, Rowe constructed a new, meta-historical, reflexive, curatorial apparatus of the “city as museum” outlined in Collage City with Fred Koetter and the Roma Interrotta Team (1978). As argued in Recombinant Urbanism (2005) many of the subsequent Urban Design movements unfolded from this layered, diagrammatic, multi-scalar approach to communal history, memory and the environment in the following half-century ranging from the Neo-Rationalism, De-construction, New Urbanism, Parametric Urbanism, Landscape Urbanism, Ecological Urbanism, Strategic Urbanism, to the emphasis on Historic Preservation, Adaptive re-use, the self-built megacity and the informational city. Even in Covid Urban Designers still struggle with the complexity and contradictions of classical and modern continuities that made Rowe’s intellectual struggle so difficult and dynamic. It seems an …
creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2022-09-10

Launch of issue 31 (EXTRA) The legacies of Colin Rowe; mathematics, contextualism, collage city and beyond.
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2022-08-30

DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES FOR A30 "DESIGNING FOR THE REAL WORLD".
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description: Designing for the real world Vol. 1 No. 30 (2022) Guess Editor: José Enrique López-Canti Professor at Universidad de Sevilla 15 June: submission of articles' deadline. (EXTENDED TO 15 JULY 2022) 02 August: external reviewers' response deadline (60 days) (EXTENDED TO 20 AUGUST 2022) 30 September: final decision for publishing the article (90 days)
creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2022-05-30

Published issue A29 (EXTRA) Divided Cities
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2022-02-07

The new issue of the magazine, A28 Ciudad Enferma/Sick City/Cidade Doente, has been published today
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2021-09-24

Next call A30 Designing for the real world
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description: To the insidious and recurrent question of excluding latitude about what it is to project as opposed to design, is added the tragicomic vacillation about what reality might be, or better, among the possible ones, the one that will be the one that will be the one to be decanted for a survey, which is not a determining objective. Now that the economic crises of 2008 and the pandemic crisis of 2020 have passed - as routes, but also as lacerating blows - and we suspect that they are the same, we need to take a stance that is, at the same time, an action, renewing the causes that unfortunately added up from the disciplines that before these crises traditionally had this social attribution. Renewing means not only rethinking what architecture is today, but also what world it is, what reality it reveals. If we admit design as a category of categories, put into the dimension "World", it entails considering "everyday life, but it goes on to infrastructures, cities, inhabited space, medical technologies, food, institutions, landscapes, the virtual and, ultimately, experience" if we follow the reflection that Arturo Escobar proposed in "Autonomy and Design, the realisation of the communal" in 2016. In the constitution of any statute of renewal, a state of the question appears, in the light of some antecedents in order to, on the basis of this, bet on the radicality of what, until then, was not feasible. The dislodging of the Modern base, which permeates everything with its exact inadequacy, would require, in such a renewal, an absorption wipe that clears the consequences in order to make visible what we have as a common foundation. Some, using guarantors who have limited degrees of freedom, appeal to fraternity and forgiveness for cohesion. Others, autistic, maintain that the crisis is a transition and that we will get out of it sooner or later. There are those who take advantage of the news of the last few days, with the wretched consequence of its acceleration. Real worlds, …
creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2021-09-22

Extension of the deadline for submissions for A29 Divided Cities
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2021-09-14

Extension of the deadline for submission of articles for A28 Sick City
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2021-05-07

Released issue Astrágalo 27, 2020. Monograph. Delhi and Its Inhabited Imaginaries. Architectures of Living
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creator: Astragalo. Culture of Architecture and the City
date: 2021-03-08