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Call for Proposals to Host the EAHN 6th International Meeting, June 2020
Since 2010, EAHN has organized a major international conference every second year. The biennial conferences have proved extremely popular and have played a leading role in consolidating and promoting architectural history research in Europe and overseas. The past conferences - in Guimarães (2010), Brussels (2012), Turin (2014) and Dublin (2016) - have each drawn 200-300 participants, from up to 40 different countries. The 2018 Meeting will be held in Tallinn, and we have now begun the search for candidates to organise our 6th International Meeting in June 2020.
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Any scholarly recognized institution can apply to host a biennial EAHN International Meeting.
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We welcome applications from across Europe and beyond.
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We encourage proposals from countries that have not previously hosted the International Meeting.
Applications of 750 words should be addressed to the EAHN Board and submitted no later than 31 January 2017 to office@eahn.org
For more details, download the Call for Proposals HERE .
Conference Guidelines with more precise information on how to organize an EAHN conference can be downloaded HERE
EAHN Fifth International Meeting
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National Library of Estonia, Tallinn 14-16 June 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts are invited for the fifth European Architectural History Network International Meeting, in Tallinn, 13-16 June 2018. Please submit your abstract by 30 September 2017 directly to the session and round tables chairs.
The full call for papers can be downloaded here.
General information on the conference can be found on the Tallinn 2018 website.
The Tools of the Architect
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TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, The Netherlands
22-24 November 2017
Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2017
Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce the EAHN’s fifth thematic conference The Tools of the Architect, to be held at Delft University of Technology and Het Nieuwe Instituut HNI (Delft and Rotterdam, The Netherlands) on 22-24 November 2017.
Architects have for their activities of drawing, writing and building always depended upon the potential of particular tools –ranging from practical instruments such as straight edges, French curves, compasses, rulers and pencils to conceptual tools such as working drawings, collages, photographic surveys, infographics, diagrams, casts and mass models.
As technologies advanced the toolbox of architects has changed and expanded. Today architects have an extraordinary array of sophisticated tools at their disposal but also rely on many of same tools as their 18th and 19th century peers. Working drawings, pencils and tracing paper continue to appear in the designer’s studio while their role and potential is being redefined.
This conference wants to focus on the changing practical and conceptual tools of the architect and their effect on the logos and praxis of architecture.
Conference Chairs: Tom Avermaete (Delft University of Technology) & Merlijn Hurx (Utrecht University)
Call for Applications / Reviews Editor (pre-1800)
The Editorial Board of Architectural Histories seeks to appoint a Reviews Editor for publications and other research-based outputs covering the history of architecture and the built environment before 1800.
The Reviews Editor is responsible for commissioning, developing and editing reviews. Architectural Histories aims to publish reviews which respond to the latest releases in the field and to widen the traditional scope of reviews, to include recent exhibitions and conferences relevant to histories of architecture.
For more details about the role and how to apply, download the full Call for Applications here.
The deadline for applications is 31 August 2017.
Call for Abstracts / Special Collection on Digital Architectural History
Architectural Histories, in collaboration with ETH Zürich, invites paper abstracts for a special themed issue on Digital Architectural History.
The journal intends to offer a platform for articles that explore what a durable and truly digital architectural history could look like. Such history activates various forms of digital visualization, data collection and management, and digital research tools; it questions how these new means affect and shape the work of the historian; and it examines how this work is made available for assessment, consultation and debate. The aim of the issue is to arrive at accessible, sustainable and potentially interactive results that open up new critical perspectives in architectural history.
For more details about funding opportunities and application requirements, please download the full Call for Abstracts.
Deadline for submission is 1 October 2017.
EAHN Membership
Membership to the EAHN offers access to:
- International Conferences
- Interactive Interest Groups
- Weekly news and events updates
- A community of like-minded architects and academics
- A professional research network
EAHN Conferences
The Network organizes a major international conference every second year and smaller, thematic conferences in intermediate years. The EAHN Conference page includes details of all our events, and guidelines for organisers.
EAHN Journal
Architectural Histories is the open access, international, blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the EAHN. See the journal website for more information, news and articles.
The two latest Special Collections, Travel and Building Word Image, are now available.
Here is a selection of recently published articles:
- Giaime Botti (2017) Geographies for Another History: Mapping the International Education of Architects from Colombia (1930–1970)
- Mari Hvattum (2017) Heteronomic Historicism
- Jonas Holst (2017) The Fall of the Tektōn and The Rise of the Architect: On The Greek Origins of Architectural Craftsmanship
- Sarah Schlachetzki (2017) Breslau Modernism, Back on the Map: A Review of Beate Störtkuhl, Moderne Architektur in Schlesien 1900 bis 1939: Baukultur und Politik, and Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918–1933
- Kristin Barry (2017) Buildings as Artifacts: Heritage, Patriotism, and the Constructed Landscape
- Elvan Cobb (2017) Learning Vicariously: Tourism, Orientalism and the Making of an Architectural Photography Collection of Egypt
- Wallis Miller (2017) Points of View: Herbert Bayer’s Exhibition Catalogue for the 1930 Section Allemande
