CfP: The Built Environment through the Colonial Press. Lisbon, 22-25 May 2017

Scholars of urban design are invited to present their work at the fourth Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory, entitled ‘Beyond Repair: Extended Histories and Theories of Urban Design’ which will be held at the University of Sheffield on 15-18 September 2027....

Guest editors: Carlos A. Segura y Richard Gerald—Rondón Institutions are inevitable conventions. They classify, create temporalities, remember and forget precedents, and authorize or censor narratives. They capture the shifting features of reality in order to serve...

The word 'heirloom' evokes objects tucked away in wardrobes, imbued with woody, musty fragrance, aged with patina and eerie silence – rescued, retained, preserved, and remembered. Their fate remains unpredictable: second-hand stores, antique shops, auction houses,...

What is the domestic? Modernity closely bound this concept to the house, and especially to bourgeois housing. So-called private life emerged from a historical reconfiguration of the divisions between the public and the private, and the dwelling consequently became one...