Conference on architecture c.1400-1950
University of Birmingham, July 1 – 02, 2016
Deadline: April 1, 2016
The conference will investigate the ways in which ideas are conveyed by the physical and visual medium of architectural form. Papers are welcomed that directly explore the relationship between message and
medium through detailed historical case studies which directly address the agency of architecture itself in the conveying of meaning. For further details, see
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/
ARQ 121: Utopian América
Coined by Thomas More in 1516, utopia holds a telling ambiguity: it means “no place” (ou-topos) but is sufficiently close to “good place” (eu-topos). Since then, the concept has oscillated between aspiration and critique—between imagining radical alternatives and...