EAHN conferences
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Sacred Spaces: Building Identities, Sharing Heritage Conference
The Department of Architecture at Yeditepe University and Centro de Estudos Nuno Portas at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, invite contributions to the 3rd International Architectural Studies Conference taking place in Porto on 9-10 September 2027 in a hybrid format.
“Translating the Rural” Exhibition + Symposium
Accompanying the exhibition “Translating the Rural” (24 September-4 December 2026) at ETH Zurich, the symposium “Mediating the Rural. From Ethnography to Design Knowledge” (9-10 November, 2026) examines how vernacular architecture, particularly wooden churches in interwar East-Central Europe, has been reinterpreted as a carrier of cultural identity, national narratives and modern architectural ideas.
13th SWS International Scientific Conference on Arts & Humanities | Bologna 2026
SWS Scholarly Society invites research contributions to the extended scientific sessions on the Arts & Humanities in Bologna 2026, as part of the 13th SWS International Scientific Conference on Arts & Humanities, entitled “The Renaissance Reimagined: Art, Science and Human Knowledge in Dialogue”.
Call for Proposals | ACSF 16 Kyoto: In-Betweenness
The ACSF 16 advances a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary understanding of in-betweenness—as a spatial, philosophical, and spiritual condition shaping architecture and urban form—and welcomes proposals in three categories: papers, projects, and workshops.
Manuals, DIY Instructions, Cookbooks: Tools of Architectural Self-Empowerment
In preparation for an exhibition at the German Architecture Museum (DAM) and an accompanying edited volume in late 2028, Carnelli Elettra (ETH Zürich) and Sebastian Linsin (Goethe University Frankfurt) invite submissions that critically engage with tools of architectural self-empowerment from the 1960s onward.
International Conference: Identity, Modernity, and (Post)coloniality in the Architecture of the Arab Gulf Countries from the 1950s to the Present
Organised by the SAFIR Institute, the event brings together Gulf and international architectural and planning historians to examine the transformations of the six GCC countries during the oil boom and the post-oil era.
news from the EAHN
EAHN Executive Committee as of June 2026
Photograph by Katharina Ya. As unanimously agreed at the Annual Business Meeting and announced during the EAHN 2026 Biennial Conference in Aarhus in June 2026, Léa-Catherine Szacka of The University of Manchester became the new President of the EAHN, alongside Maarten...
Summations from the EAHN 2026 Aarhus
Domesticating Life by Kostas Tsiambaos PhD, Associate Professor, NTUA School of Architecture The sessions of the ‘Domesticating life’ thread could be described as efforts to examine typologies, geographies and scales that go beyond the architectural, in order to...
Special Interest Group Activities at the EAHN 2026 Aarhus Biennial Conference
Photograph by Katharina Ya Ten Special Interest Group (SIG) activities took place on the first day of the EAHN 2026 Aarhus Biennial Conference on Wednesday, 17 June, bringing together established and newly constituted groups around focused conversations on thematic...