Introduction: Building as artefact: an analytical disposition

摘要

This is the second in a series of six supplementary issues that together comprise an anthology of research papers from The Journal of Architecture (to follow that produced in 2006) published as two special issues in each of the three years 2016, 2017 and 2018. This serialised publication covers papers selected from The Journal's second decade 2004-2013. As guest editors for the anthology supplements, in our task of re-reading and selecting papers for reproduction we were mindful not to take our own personal editorial predilections for granted, any more than the vicissitudes of research funding available to scholars and institutions, or intellectual and architectural fashions. It was immediately evident to us that the influence of globalisation was unavoidable, both in examination of precursors to the global architecture which we now associate with neo-liber-alism and in the evolving consequences of digital publication and dissemination. Authorship, research mores and modes of readership are now registered within a shared global culture.