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...

Architectural exhibitions, despite their transient nature, have a profound influence in articulating movements, sparking central discussions and marking traces in the field. They act as active agents that represent, culminate, disseminate or project prevailing...

Guest editors: PAREID (Deborah Lopez + Hadin Charbel) The increasing use of interactive media in architecture has radically transformed how we conceive of and experience both the subjects and the scales of design. The traditional approach of working with isolated,...

The issue 03 of 4A Journal will be dedicated to exploring the synergy between cultural heritage and fashion, aimed at investigating the new forms of territorial, architectural, artistic, and social enhancement generated by the interaction of these two design...

CICA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM 2025 TERRITORIALITY AND TEMPORALITY IN ARCHITECTURE Online Conference. CICA Comité International des Critiques d’Architecture 18-19, 25–26 October 2025 Call for Abstracts How do buildings establish and engage...

A little over 25 years ago, the site of this conference, Maritime Greenwich, London, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Home to the first Palladian building in England, the Royal Naval College by Sir Christopher Wren, the National Maritime Museum, the...

The OASE 123 issue edited by Sebastiaan Loosen, Hans Teerds and Tom Avermaete will examine incompleteness in architecture. For this issue, editors are looking for contributions that in various ways explore historical examples and/or contemporary practices, wherein...

Dreams of the South: Nordic Architecture and the Mediterranean This session examines the architectural interactions between the Nordic countries and the Mediterranean, examining the North’s ever-evolving relation to the South as a cultural and geographical entity, as...