Chicago History Museum

The Power of Sources in Architecture Research and Practice

8th Forum Architekturwissenschaft, 9-11 March 2022, Berlin Access to sources, knowledge, and information is going through fundamental changes as globalisation and digitalisation evolve. The same changes apply to the process of gaining new academic insights. As the...

How ‘Byzantine’ was the Eighteenth century? New insights on the Christian Orthodox art and architecture of the late Ottoman Empire

Call for Papers

Session during the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Baltimore, March 31-April 2, 2022. Organizers: Nikos Magouliotis (ETH Zurich) and Demetra Vogiatzaki (Harvard GSD) The most common term used to describe Christian...

The View from the Car: Autopia as a New Perceptual Regime

Exhibition

Exhibition at the Baubibliothek of ETH Zurich from 15 September to 15 October 2021 The exhibition aims to render explicit the impact of the car on the way we perceive architecture and the city. The view from the car changed architecture fundamentally. Despite the fact...

Maintaining the Presence of the Prince: Management of Royal Geographies (XIVth-XIXth Centuries)

Conference

Auditorium of the Château de Versailles/online, 15-17 September 2021 Whereas the design and construction of court architecture and royal sites has a long and extensive historiography, the way these royal sites were maintained has rarely been a subject of study in...

Knowledge, Interpretations and Dissemination: Circulations in Mediterranean Architectural Culture between XVII and XVIII Centuries