No. 28 (2026): The Common Beauty: Who Defines Beauty in Contemporary Architecture?

This issue addresses Common Beauty as a critical framework for rethinking who defines beauty in contemporary architecture. Rather than treating beauty as a stable value or a purely formal attribute, the issue examines it as a contested field shaped by memory, technology, politics, climate, perception, authorship and collective life. Through historical, theoretical, material and project-based approaches, the articles explore how aesthetic criteria are produced, inherited, challenged and transformed. Together, they suggest that architectural beauty is neither a private preference nor a universal rule, but a shared and disputed condition through which architecture negotiates value, experience and meaning.