The yearly journal CLARA ARCHITECTURE/RECHERCHE launches a call for thematic issue to be published in CLARA’s 5th volume, expected for September 2017. CLARA ARCHITECTURE / RECHERCHE is a double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal, financially supported by the FRS-(Belgian) Fund for Scientific Research. It attaches a privileged importance to the research methods and tools deriving from the field of architectural design, in particular to original drawings, graphics, and pictures both as means of inquiry and as non-textual support for explanations. Each volume comprises a thematic section of 6 to 8 papers dealing with a clearly identified architectural issue. Each volume comprises a detailed summary and abstracts for the main section’s articles.CLARA ARCHITECTURE / RECHERCHE is published in a 20x25cm format (188 to 232 pages), balck & white, but sometimes includes one to two 16-pages full-color inserts. CLARA ARCHITECTURE / RECHERCHE pursues an Open Access policy, makig its contents available after a 12 month embargo period after publication.

To apply for this call, please submit a document including :
- A theme : title and short argument for your proposal (300-500 words). The theme may not be built to host conference proceedings, but may the result of encounters, previous studies within a design studio, an office, an administration or an assocition, within the frame of a research project, or beyond any specific institutional frame. This issue of CLARA may also be considered as an opportunity to deal and/or establish a new and fresh working ground.
- Guest editor(s) : Names, short resume (100 words), affiliation, list of 5 main publications. The guest editor(s) shall be responsible for the thematic issue’s overall consistency and for the quality of every single contribution. She/he/they may propose her/his/their own original contribution within the issue, or only sign an introductory essay which shall situate the sense and interest of each contribution.
- Contents :In case of anticipated authors, names, affiliations, short resume (100 words), and provisional title for each author. Each proposed contribution should also be presented by its own abstract (300 words), and provisional list of illustrations (type, format and number). Eventually, full papers may already be submitted at the very first stage (20 to 30.000 signs, spaces, footnotes, references and captions included), however no more than 30% of the authors should be affiliated to a same institution. An open call for papers must still be organised and a proposal for the call (app. 500 words) submitted.

CLARA Architecture/Recherche is an editorial initiative of the Centre des Laboratoires Associés pour la Recherche en Architecture (C.L.A.R.A.) at the Faculty of architecture La Cambre Horta - Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).