CfP: Bauhaus In and Out Perspectives from Spain. Madrid, 10-11 October 2019

Call for Papers: Bauhaus In and Out Perspectives from Spain. Madrid, 10-11 October 2019

II International Conference of the Association of historians of Architecture and Urban Design (AhAU). Institución Libre de Enseñanza (ILE), Madrid

Keynote speakers: Magdalena Droste, Juan José Lahuerta
General chairs: Laura Martínez de Guereñu, Carolina B. García Estévez
On the occasion of the 100 Years of Bauhaus, the II International Conference of the Association of historians of Architecture and Urban Design will debate the architecture that embraces the double directionality of Bauhaus legacy in Spain.
There will be 9 thematic sessions:

  1. Masters and Disciples
  2. Women at the Bauhaus
  3. The Other Avant-gardes, the Time of the Bauhaus
  4. New Ways of Living, from the Dwelling to the City
  5. Questions of Pedagogy
  6. Mediation over Technology, Crafts versus Industrialization
  7. Encounters between Art and Architecture
  8. Bauhaus Networks
  9. Historiography, Critique and Controversies

Please send an abstract of 700 to 1000 words to: congreso.bauhaus@ahau.es by 22 October 2018.
The full Call for Papers with all the information can be found here or downloaded.

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