About the Journal
UOUsj is an international scientific journal published by UNIVERSITY of Universities. It was born in 2021 as an international collaboration of schools of architecture, sharing their intercultural interests.
Every issue concentrates on a specific theme suggested by one of the universities involved in this research project. Themes encourage a focus on pedagogy in architecture and are announced through a call made at least six months in advance of publication.
The journal is biannual (June and December), double-blind peer reviewed, digital, open access, and indexed. It publishes original articles in English, accompanied by abstracts in the authors' mother tongues.
Current Issue
No. 10 (2025): IN DETAIL
Guest Editor:
Angela Kyriacou Petrou / University of Nicosia, Cyprus
This issue explores the complex con-junctions between people, materials and meanings through the micro-scales of architecture. The detail is the point at which things meet –an entanglement between materiality and everyday life. From technical detailing to the materiality of living, the issue seeks to identify the potential opportunities held in junctions, processes and moments of material convergence. Whether matter or data, material moments are not seen as purely static but instead are understood as substances which exist in relation to natural or cultural events or potential interactions.Seen as part of a bigger story, ‘spatial evidence’- artefacts/ seams / openings / assemblages /flotsam /deposits/ leakages/ overflows/ wreckages/ erosion/disorder- all disclose a story about the corporeality of life through micro moments, acting as a testimony to life lived. In order to make these observations we need examine material details as moments of a larger series interactions and networks. Represented as a slice of space we witness our environment- like detectives - in slow motion, attempting to reveal micro details, opportunities, invisible stories, hidden worlds, and unknown lives- through the potential of the detail.
Published:
18.12.2025
