Published biannually, Candide: Journal for Architectural Knowledge is an innovative magazine covering all aspects of current architectural research. Each edition is divided into five themed sections: Analysis, Essay, Project, Encounter and Fiction.

Die zwölfte Ausgabe von Candide widmet sich dem Thema Visual Urbanism – ein vollkommen neues Forschungsfeld. Fotograf*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen experimentierten mit anthropologischen, kulturwissenschaftlichen, soziologischen und geografischen Methoden, für eine Reflexion über die meist unkritische Nutzung von Bildern des öffentlichen Raums. Candide 12 sucht Möglichkeiten, diese Ergebnisse in Architektur und Stadtplanung zu integriert. Dabei beantworten Autor*innen drängende Fragen, wie nach der Nutzbarmachung fotografischer Bilder für die Architektur und vice versa.

How is an architect's knowledge generated, gathered, and passed on? Who are the people, institutions, and groups involved, and how do these participants go about their work? These questions are at the heart of the series of essays, Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge, which has been published biannually since 2009, describing and promoting a specific culture of knowledge about architecture. In order to do justice to the many different kinds of approach to research, each edition is divided into five sections: “Analysis” investigates forms of the built environment, looking for the knowledge invested in them. “Essay” offers space for a personal exploration of one of the grand themes of architecture. “Project” serves as a forum for practicing architects and their works. “Encounter” highlights the wealth of experience of famous or unjustly forgotten architects. “Fiction” appeals to the power of the imagination, which occasionally transports more knowledge than does empirical research

Large construction projects such as Stuttgart 21, the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg, and Les Halles in Paris have one thing in common: the potential for enormous conflict. Yet, debates over large architectural projects foster more than just aggressive polemics; the knowledge of society gained can be applied to negotiation and mediation processes. What kinds of realizations, however, can be accrued from these experiences and used in the future? Architektur als Streitsache (Architecture as dispute) was a conference that explored this question in particular. Its results are now accessible to the broader public in the current collector's volumes, Candide 10 and 11. They offer interesting insights, fascinating perspectives of production histories, and surprising developments. All of the essays share an understanding of architecture as not just the art of building, but as the creation of social spaces in which we all live.

Published twice a year, Candide is dedicated to exploring the culture of knowledge specific to architecture. Like Voltaire's fictional character Candide, who traveled the eighteenth-century world on an eager if often thwarted search for knowledge, the journal's editors have embarked on a twenty-first-century quest for architectural knowledge. How is architectural knowledge generated, collected, presented and passed on? Which forms of architectural knowledge can be observed? How can knowledge generated in reference to a specific task be applied to other contexts? Which techniques, tools, and methods are instrumental? To do justice to the many ways of approaching research, each edition of Candide is divided into five sections. "Analysis" investigates building types, looking for the knowledge invested in them; "Essay" offers space for a personal exploration of one of the grand themes of architecture; "Project" serves as a forum for practicing architects and their works; "Encounter" highlights famous or unjustly forgotten architects; and "Fiction" draws on architecture's imaginative dimension, inviting more speculative writing.

How is an architect's knowledge generated, gathered and passed on? Who are the people, institutions and groups involved? These questions are at the heart of the journal Candide, which has been published biannually since 2009 promoting a culture of knowledge about architecture.

A critical and scholarly inquiry into experimental architecture and material culture The 13th edition of the architectural journal Candide addresses the theme of "Experimental Architecture and Material Culture" through conversations with students and researchers from Germany and India as well as scholarly and topical texts on design-build procedures and sustainable construction.