Paul Mellon Center for for Studies in British Art: Architecture Summer Series

Late 19th-century museum exhibitions, rooted in natural sciences, archaeological, and art historical disciplines, primarily served as visualizations of methodology. They were a part of the research process and represented a form of spatial knowledge production in...

Call for Papers is now open Abstract deadline: May 5, 2025. Full-paper deadline: September 15, 2025 Critic|all is an initiative lead by the Architectural Design Department of Madrid ETSAM–UPM. The sixth edition of this peer-reviewed conference is organized in...

In the late Middle Ages, cities were governed through constant dialogue. Rulers, nobility, citizens and other social groups all found ways to shape urban governance, each articulating complex views on what “good” governance entailed. In order to meet expectations of...

The concept of the double has long fascinated—and unsettled—philosophers, psychologists, and artists, emerging as a site of tension between self and other, reality and illusion, truth and distortion. The double operates as a bizarre paradox—identical yet different, a...

What happens when those living alongside historical monuments—churchgoers, farmers, workers, custodians, local officials, non-human entities—see these sites as theirs? Through what sources and scholarly approaches can we recover their voices and their role in the...