CFP: 6th Annual International Conference on Architecture (Athens 4-7th July 2016)

The Architecture Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), will hold its 6th Annual International Conference on Architecture, from the 4-7 July 2016.
The aim of the conference is to bring together academics and researchers from all areas of Architecture. Areas of interest include (but are not confined to):
  • Individual buildings and building types
  • History of architecture and the built environment
  • Architectural theory
  • Developments in construction
  • Town planning
  • Allied arts such as painting and sculpture
  • Social Research examines the people who inhabit and use the spaces of architecture
  • Technological Research studies the physical materials, methods, elements, systems, and science of architecture and the design and construction processes
  • Environmental Research investigates the physical context of architecture, opening timely questions about the influence of society on environment
  • Cultural Research studies place-making and the norms of the inhabitants of natural and built places past, present, and future
  • Organizational Research examines the ways in which individuals and teams collaborate in the practice of architecture and in the client organizations
  • Design Research considers the processes of shaping and making of places
  • Educational Research examines the pedagogies of architecture and related fields

 

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