Cuaderno de Notas is an academic research journal of the Architectural Composition Department of ETSAM Architecture School (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), dedicated to issues of Theory and History of Architecture. It publishes contributions requested in an open and public call for papers and submitted to a peer review process, and is aimed at the university community as well as scholars interested in these areas.
Focus and scope
Cuaderno de Notas is an academic research journal of the Architectural Composition Department of ETSAM Architecture School (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), dedicated to issues of Theory and History of Architecture. It publishes contributions requested in an open and public call for papers and submitted to a peer review process, and is aimed at the university community as well as scholars interested in these areas.
Articles on the above-mentioned field are accepted in SPANISH or ENGLISH, within a disciplinary conception of architecture that encompasses its different scales and interrelationships.
Although it borders and shares other areas of knowledge, its most related field is the area of Architectural Composition as defined by the Spanish National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity in BOE no. 282, 22 November 2008. Appendix II. Fields and areas of knowledge. Universities (Field 6.3. Area 100).
In addition to academic articles in conventional format, the journal also includes the sections Documents and Reviews, which are not subject to the specific regulations for articles. The Documents section allows the inclusion of a flexible and varied work format, incorporating teaching papers, synoptic tables or even annotated translations of unpublished texts.
PROFILE
Cuaderno de Notas has a dual format: online and print. However, the latter is maintained with a fairly small print run of around 150 copies for institutional use, selected libraries (university and professional architects’ associations) and authors and contributors. Since its creation (1993), many issues before its incorporation into the evaluation and indexing system (2014), it has been approached with high academic standards and rigour. Cuaderno de Notas is distinguished by its commitment to the originality and depth of its contributions.
In addition to the specific contributions appearing in each issue, Cuaderno de Notas has been developing a number of thematic lines through a series of successive or related articles. The most prominent thematic lines so far are:
- Picturesque Garden and Architecture
- The English House
- The Deutscher Werkbund
- Modern Dutch Architecture
- Brutalism in Architecture
- “Lessons on the History of New Architecture” by Julius Posener
- Architecture Magazines (De 8 en Opbuw, Wendingen, Arts & Architecture)
- Le Corbusier Documents
- Architectural Industrial Heritage (monographic issue 17)
- Architecture and Environment
As a research journal, Cuaderno de Notas has no general informative interest, nor is it particularly focused on following the latest debates in the strictly professional field. As a publication whose mission it is to provide foundations and references, Cuaderno de Notas focuses instead on topics and events of a relatively non-current nature, although it does remain attentive to the methodological novelties in its field of interest. The journal is not intended to serve as a vehicle for course notes, although it is in fact used in various subjects.
DISSEMINATION AND TRAJECTORY
Cuaderno de Notas already has a track record of twenty-three previous issues. To date, the journal has been distributed to practically all the Schools of Architecture and various Faculties of Art History in Spain, through their libraries and related departments, as well as to the libraries of the Architects’ Associations and other cultural institutions.
A permanent exchange is maintained with the journal Espacio, Tiempo y Forma of the Faculty of History of Art of the UNED, and abroad, exchanges are established with Schools of Architecture in Holland, Italy and various Latin American countries.
Cuaderno de Notas does not charge authors any submission or article publication fees.
The full content of all issues of Cuaderno de Notas is available in PDF format on the Polired-UPM platform.
