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The Global Neoclassicism Project Online Symposium: Neoclassicism in the Extended Field: A Global Project 28-30 May 2026 Co-chaired by: Faraz Olfat - PhD candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Rebecca Yuste - PhD candidate, Department of Art...

This conference invites proposals examining how modernist architecture in the Mediterranean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Global South is being re-evaluated and reinterpreted in response to contemporary ecological, political, and cultural challenges. Focusing on...

International Conference, Zurich, 2-4 September 2026 The term ‘character’ is part of today’s vocabulary of architecture: we casually refer to the ‘character’ of specific buildings or landscapes, and the ‘characteristics’ of projects or historical city centres, to...

The Lessons of Rome aim to propose a space for reflection for anyone who grasps Italy as an architectural, urban, and landscape research laboratory. Defining Italy as a laboratory involves analyzing contexts of urban policies but also as design experiences, theories,...

It is a widely shared diagnosis that translocal connectivity and interdependence of events and processes are defining characteristics of the present. Beyond the development of increasingly powerful infrastructures for the transport of goods and data – which have led...