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Final Conference "Tacit Knowledge in Architecture"

Tacit knowledge is a key characteristic of architecture culture. It plays a central role in the conception, design, construction and appropriation of buildings and cities. It characterizes architectural education, distinguishes the cultures of design offices and typifies the collaborations between different actors, including craftsmen, engineers and architects. Despite this central role that tacit knowledge assumes […]

Exhibition "Unausgesprochenes Wissen / Unspoken Knowledge / Le (savoir) non-dit"

Tacit knowledge is a key characteristic of architecture culture. It plays a central role in the conception, design, construction and appropriation of buildings and cities. It characterizes architectural education, distinguishes the cultures of design offices and typifies the collaborations between different actors, including craftsmen, engineers and architects. Despite this central role that tacit knowledge assumes […]

Insights from Architekturzentrum, Vienna
The second part of the Antwerp Foundational Meeting was hosted at the University of Antwerp in Belgium

Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing

‘TACK / Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing’ is a newly funded Innovative Training Network, as part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions within the European Framework Program Horizon 2020. It trains young researchers in understanding the specific knowledge that architects use when designing buildings and cities. TACK gathers ten major academic institutions, three leading cultural architectural institutions as well as nine distinguished architecture design offices. Collaboratively these partners offer an innovative PhD training program on the nature of tacit knowledge in architecture, resulting in ten parallel PhD projects.

NEWS
The TACK Publishing Platform is Live!, May 21, 2023

  On 11th May 2023, the TACK Publishing Platform went live! Please share the link in your networks! On 21 June 2023, during the Final Conference, Helen Thomas will explain the process that informed the creation of this platform. Read more

Seminar “Southern Urbanism by Jhono Bennett, April 26, 2023

On March 30th, Jhono Bennett led a seminar for a group of Swiss and Southern architecture students. The seminar was hosted by ETH’s Unmasking Space team, a student led organization dedicated to engaging with critical questions within architecture and design. Read more

Update on the Tack Publishing Platform before Launching: FAQs, March 24, 2023

The TACK Network has been developing the idea of a publishing platform since spring 2022. Since then, with the conceptual input of Helen Thomas and the technical support from web developers of Rectangle, Lizzie Malcom and Daniel Powers, the TACK Publishing Platform has slowly come to life and is currently growing offline before the launch in mid-April 2023. Read more