In 2019, the International Art Exhibition of Venice, directed by Ralph Rugoff, was titled May You Live in Interesting Times. The phrase has an uncertain origin and is likely the result of a misunderstanding that renders it ambiguous, as it may also be interpreted as a...

The AHRA PhD Symposium 2026 takes place on 29 and 30 June. The symposium is held in a hybrid-format in Sétif (Algeria), Norwich University of Arts (Britain) and TU Delft (The Netherlands). Deadline: 15 March 2026 Symposium theme Research in the architectural...

Guest editors: Antonio Cantero & Stefano Corbo Submission deadline: April 27 2026. Publication date: August 2026 More info: link Materia Arquitectura 30 invites us to explore how human, non-human and post-human patterns of occupation shape the more-than-human...

Online conference, January 26-27, 2027, organized by the “Art, Environment, Ecology” Research Group, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich Modernist architectural discourse and historiography have long established concrete as a rational, efficient, and hygienic...

Issue 05 of 4A Journal is dedicated to the relationship between architectural design and the space of the mise-en-scène, understood both as a site of traditional representation (theatre, cinema, television) and in a broader sense, encompassing retail environments,...

Enabling Boundaries: Rethinking Spatial Categories, Epistemic Challenges, and Transformative Design Practices School of Architecture, Jade University of Applied Sciences, Oldenburg, Germany, June 5, 2026 Deadline: March 6, 2026 Symposium Theme: Urban planning and...

We live in a global ecosystem marked by interconnected challenges, including climate change, social inequalities, urban transformations, health emergencies, digital transitions, and crises of care and living. These are complex problems with multiple interdependent...

Since the fall of European empires, the metanarratives of modernity in architecture and its assumed progressive, liberal value systems have been profoundly questioned by post and de-colonial critiques. Today, modernity and modernism, once (within specific geopolitical...

The Global Neoclassicism Project Online Symposium: Neoclassicism in the Extended Field: A Global Project 28-30 May 2026 Co-chaired by: Faraz Olfat - PhD candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Rebecca Yuste - PhD candidate, Department of Art...

This conference invites proposals examining how modernist architecture in the Mediterranean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Global South is being re-evaluated and reinterpreted in response to contemporary ecological, political, and cultural challenges. Focusing on...

International Conference, Zurich, 2-4 September 2026 The term ‘character’ is part of today’s vocabulary of architecture: we casually refer to the ‘character’ of specific buildings or landscapes, and the ‘characteristics’ of projects or historical city centres, to...

The Lessons of Rome aim to propose a space for reflection for anyone who grasps Italy as an architectural, urban, and landscape research laboratory. Defining Italy as a laboratory involves analyzing contexts of urban policies but also as design experiences, theories,...