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What is the domestic? Modernity closely bound this concept to the house, and especially tobourgeois 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...

www.facesmagazine.ch “Creating does not mean deforming or inventing people and things. It means forging new relationships between existing people and things.” This quotation by Robert Bresson encapsulates the approach of FACES no. 88, devoted to the theme of working...

(...) women play almost no part in making decisions about or in creating the environment. It is a man-made environment. (Matrix Architects, Making space. Women and the man-made environment. London, Pluto Press, 1984, p. 3) More than four decades after this statement,...

Date: 14 November 2026 Convenors: Elizabeth McKellar (SAHGB), Manolo Guerci (University of Kent), Kyle Leyden (Courtauld Institute) This third symposium in memory of Mark Girouard looks at women’s contributions to architectural history in Britain and Ireland. There...

What is the current, emerging research in architecture, design and urbanism across the African continent? Which lessons can other global cultures learn from what is being envisioned and tested in Africa today? What further insights emerge when these questions are...