Aula situates architecture and urbanism within contemporary cultural debates through interdisciplinary discussion, and it highlights topics which are best served by the inclusion of voices from diverse backgrounds. We define architecture and urbanism in their broadest terms: as places which exist in the built world of cities and physical landscapes, and as spaces which reside in the media and in our thoughts and collective memories. The ways in which we imagine and represent cities and buildings are increasingly challenged by cultural discourse, and this in turn challenges traditional approaches to history, theory, and criticism as practiced in the design disciplines. As a forum that brings together the fields of environmental design and Latin American, Latino/a, American, and Cultural Studies. Aula is well served by an editorial board which reflects a spectrum of disciplines.
Aula was created in 1999 as a forum to explore how we imagine, represent, and construct cities and the public and private realms of our hemisphere.