Candide is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to exploring the culture of
knowledge specific to architecture. It is released twice a year in
English and German. Each issue of Candide is made up of five distinct
sections. This frame- work responds to the diversity of architectural
knowledge being produced, while challenging authors from all disciplines
to test a variety of genres in order to write about and represent
architecture. "Essay" provides a forum for discussion of architectural
knowledge, including both fundamental research into and speculative
arguments on its nature.
"Analysis" allows for in-depth examination of built form: how can the
knowledge embodied in buildings be retrospectively extracted and
creatively re-used? "Project" is directed at architects who see design
as a theoretical tool: how can a specific design proposal become a model
of thought? "Encounters" gives access to the personal knowledge of
renowned, unjustly forgotten, or entirely unknown protagonists of
architecture. "Fiction" reflects the editors' conviction that sometimes
the imaginary may reveal more about architectural knowledge than
science.