Architecture: Art and Urban Studies

Dear Colleagues,

The crucible of large-scale natural disasters, wars, pandemics, and so forth has sky-rocketed the already dynamic metamorphosis of cities, both in their spatial structures and in the social processes that sustain them. For its part, the active insertion of art in the city has generated a continuous exploration of public art, collective social expressions, light experimentations, spatial speculations, the interactivity of urban devices, the recovery of the heritage of antique buildings, and urban cradles.

These questions have been manifest in the city and in artistic discourses about urban spaces, including the traditional fine arts (landscape painting as recognition of the awareness of urban space, or the artistic dimension of cartography), audio–visual arts, and new interactive formats.

For this Special Issue, we welcome contributions that, even starting from the depiction of specific phenomena of a location or a group of enclaves, provide results that lead us to a greater understanding of the complex changes that are taking place in cities. Likewise, we encourage the submission of articles that deal with direct artistic experiences in the urban realm or reflections on the representation of the city in artistic, visible, and intangible formats. Spatial science contributions may showcase this portrait of cities as a fluid and flexible network, based on many variables, and that organizes itself over time, progressing towards geometric mechanics. Theretofore, both empirical contributions and those that represent a theoretical advance in straddling art and urban studies will be considered.

We believe that these matters must be approached from a scientific point of view, since it is science that gives form to the formless, and that is why it has often been compared to art or even magick. We will explore these procedures of the generation of form in the amorphous context of urban culture and spatial arrangements.

This Special Issue is a joint Special Issue with Arts. You can view our page on /Arts/ journal via the link below:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/arts_art_urban_studies

Prof. Dr. Inmaculada Rodriguez Cunill
Prof. Dr. Jose Cabeza-Lainez
Dr. Guido Cimadomo
Guest Editors

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