RETRACTED ARTICLE: Environmental Communications Looks at the Built, Los Angeles, 1970s

Abstract

We, the Editors and Publisher of Journal of Architectural Education, have retracted the following article:

Angela Juarranz Serrano, “Environmental Communications Looks at the Built, Los Angeles, 1970s,” Journal of Architectural Education 75, no. 1 (2021): 38-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2021.1859885.

It was brought to our attention that the article contains significant overlap with previously published sources:

Mark Wasiuta and Marcos Sánchez, “Environmental Communications,” Domus (2014): 112-119. http://www.environmentalcommunications.com/writing/domus-971/.

Mark Wasiuta and Marcos Sánchez, Radical Pedagogies website. https://radical-pedagogies.com/search-cases/a38-environmental-communications/.

Claire Voon, “The Collective that Radicalized Urban Design in the 1970s with Slides,” Hyperallergenic (2017). http://hyperallergic.com/364696/environmental-communications-contact-high-laxart/.

Following notification, we investigated in accordance with Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines on plagiarism. Overlap includes general paraphrasing of the earlier articles, including a series of passages that were reworded from published sources, which were presented as original ideas in the essay. The author has been notified of the decision to retract.

Therefore, we have determined that publication of a retraction is the best course of action. The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted.”

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Statement of Retraction: Environmental Communications Looks at the Built, Los Angeles, 1970s

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Angela Juarranz Serrano

Angela Juarranz Serrano, Ph.D., is an architect. She received her B.Arch. at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid in 2012, her Master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Projects at ETSAM in 2013, and a Ph.D. in Architecture from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 2019, with International Mention. Her thesis was entitled “The Construction of the Environment: Towards Disciplinary Mediation as an Architectural Laboratory (1967–2017).” Juarranz Serrano combines professional projects with academic, research, and editorial activities. Her research has received awards from the Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Arquia Foundation, as well as an FPU Grant from the Ministry of Education of Spain, among others.