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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)
Histories in Conflict: Cities | Buildings | Landscapes
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, June 13-15 2017
Early Bird reduced registration fees extended until 2 June 2017. Current members wishing to register for the conference must log in (below) to purchase a ticket. Non-members will be directed to the membership page before they can purchase a ticket.
Conference Programme
Conference Website
On the 50-year anniversary of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and the contentious unification it legislated, we ask how can historians account for the predicaments of violence and uneven distributions of power in the built environment, particularly in the face of current worldwide geo-political crises?
The conference aims to open up questions about the purpose of writing histories of urban conflicts. We welcome papers that consider urban conflict and urge investigation into its related aspects of change and heterogeneity.
At the heart of the conference will be the question of how eruptions of strife shape architectural and urban histories; and reciprocally, how larger architectural and planning processes, along with the histories that register their impact, intervene in the predicament of con ict. The aim of the conference is to bring together different responses to this predicament from both regional architectural and urban historians and worldwide members of the EAHN.
Download the full Call for Papers
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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:
- Patrick Leitner (2016). Inventing Perspectives: New York’s Skyscrapers in the French Illustrated Press (1898–1912)
- Danielle S. Willkens (2016). Reading Words and Images in the Description(s) of Sir John Soane’s Museum
- Michela Rosso (2016). Il Selvaggio 1926–1942: Architectural Polemics and Invective Imagery
- Kenny Cupers (2016). Géographie Volontaire and the Territorial Logic of Architecture
- Sigrid de Jong (2016). Subjective Proportions: 18th-Century Interpretations of Paestum’s ‘Disproportion’
- Caroline Voet (2016). Between Looking and Making: Unravelling Dom Hans van der Laan’s Plastic Number
