Precis 15
untitled: questions on methodology
In law, a title is a just cause for possession or control. Perhaps, out of a distaste for classification, control, or even as a genuinely evasive maneuver, we suggest that the generative topic of Precis 15 merely index a set of potential issues. In an attempt to generate a collection of writings, without limiting the scope and range of solicited responses, we assert a virtual identity for the issue, more the idea of identity than its editorial effects.
An undoing of essentialist arguments by the end of the 1960s allowed discourses to relate knowledge and methodology in new ways. The question remains as to whether these effects have been fully explored. One may assert that the overwhelming diversity of information, methods, and practices at a forum such as the GSAP challenges the inventory of what were previously considered critical positions. If architecture is without an identity or fixed point of reference, is the task to propose an architecture that holds itself open; to many interpretations and to many types of occupation.
Untitled then references a set of questions about, but not limited to, authorship, unclaimed territory, quality, technique, identity, methodology, and knowledge. Untitled suggests that architecture is always as yet to be defined. We extend the invitation to write on, in, around,or away from the issue untitled.
Werequest thatwriterssubmitaproposalto the editorsby December15:
(preferably by e-mail)
e-mail: precis@brooklyn.arch.columbia.edu
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