ST/A/R – Städteplanung, Architektur, Religion – Zeitung für Hochkultur, Mittelmaß und Schund is a critically minded periodical that approaches the intersections of urban planning, architecture, and

religious and cultural imaginaries with a distinctive, often tongue-in-cheek editorial stance. The subtitle—Zeitung für Hochkultur, Mittelmaß und Schund—signals a wide-ranging interest in high culture, ordinary life, and the thresholds where seriousness and kitsch blur.

The journal brings together theory, visual essays, interviews, and critical reflections that examine how built environments and symbolic systems shape collective life. Articles probe the relationships between planning practices and social orders, between architectural form and spiritual or ideological narratives, and between cultural hierarchies and everyday aesthetics. Far from a narrowly technical discourse, ST/A/R situates design and space within broader cultural, political, and historical contexts.

Visually and conceptually heterogeneous, the publication cultivates an editorial voice that is both rigorous and provocative, encouraging readers to rethink familiar assumptions about cities, buildings, belief systems, and the cultural categories that frame them.