Journal For Architectural Knowledge. Candide is a peer-reviewed journal based at the Department of Architecture Theory, RWTH Aachen University. 

Not unlike Voltaire’s fictional character Candide, who traveled the eighteenth-century world on an eager but often disappointed search for knowledge, the journal’s editors have embarked on a twenty-first century search, in their case, of architectural knowledge.

Candide is released twice a year

Journal For Architectural Knowledge. Candide is a peer-reviewed journal based at the Department of Architecture Theory, RWTH Aachen University. 

Not unlike Voltaire’s fictional character Candide, who traveled the eighteenth-century world on an eager but often disappointed search for knowledge, the journal’s editors have embarked on a twenty-first century search, in their case, of architectural knowledge.

Candide is released twice a year

Content:

Essay: Sabine von Fischer, Acoustics, Appropriated and Applied:
Describing Sound in Architecture and Physics, Circa 1920.

Analysis: Tanja Herdt, The McAppy Project:
How Cedric Price Brought Systems-Thinking to Modern Architecture

Project: Andres Lepik, Anna Heringer
Authentic Architecture. Or: The Bangladesh Lessons.

Encounters: Anne Poirier, Murielle Hladik, Patrick Poirier
In the Garden of Time.

Fiction: Alain Guez, Sandra Parvu
Avoiding Images: A Play for Thirteen Voices