About Haecceity Inc.

Haecceity Inc. was founded in 2005 by Daniel Pavlovits in association with the members of the Haecceity Inc. Advisory Board, in order to establish a portal and voice for critical and radical architecture theory in our time. The aim of the Haecceity project is to contribute pertinent themes in architectural theory to academic discourse, and by doing so vitalise the discipline of architectural theory, and indeed architectural practice, at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

It is our belief that architecture as a discipline can, should and indeed must be experimental in nature - at least if nowhere else then in the vanguard. It is hand-in-hand with this experimentation that architecture theory has pertinence, and as such, the Haecceity project has relevance. The Haecceity project seeks to expand the knowledge and associated dissemination of critical architectural theory in our time in order to expand the horizons of how architecture is understood, practiced, and by way of that, what new terrains it may hope to traverse.

The Haecceity project consists of:

  • an individually themed twice-yearly journal titled Haecceity Papers, with occasional additional themed special issues, all of which are published here on our Online Publishing Portal with hard-copy orders also available. Haecceity Papers is abstracted and indexed in the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. Haecceity Papers is a refereed publication;

  • Quarterly Architecture Essay (QAE), or rather dissertation, of approximately 12,000-20,000 words on a specific and topical theme on, or contributing to, architecture theory, published here on our Online Publishing Portal four times a year, in addition to a release in book form through our publishing partner Routledge of the thus published QAEs once a year. Quarterly Architecture Essay (QAE) is a refereed publication;

  • a regularly updated page of public lecture transcripts and other short essays of the moment in critical architecture theory, updated approximately once a month, many of which herald new or upcoming books or book chapters;

  • previews of print edition Haecceity titles published by our publishing partner Routledge and announced here on our Online Publishing Portal;

  • selected book reviews of forthcoming or recently published books in architecture theory and urban studies.

In addition to setting-up and publishing content on our Online Publishing Portal, Haecceity Inc. has partnered with Routledge to produce approximately 2-3 titles of print publications per year in the form of academic monographs in critical architecture theory and urban studies. These monographs are published by Routledge acting as our publishing partner and carry a "This is a Haecceity Inc. title" logo on their back cover.