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...
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Architecture in Transition: Modernist Legacies and Sustainable Futures in the Mediterranean and Global South
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...
Building Identities: Character in Architecture and Beyond
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 (9th edition)
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,...
Site Responsiveness: Translocal Interdependencies and Heterogeneous Temporalities in Art and Architecture
It is a widely shared diagnosis that translocal connectivity and interdependence of events and processes are defining characteristics of the present. Beyond the development of increasingly powerful infrastructures for the transport of goods and data – which have led...
Domesticity in Educational Architecture – The Spatial Politics of Learning Environments
Beyond their pedagogical functions, school buildings have long served as discrete instruments of cultural and ideological articulation. Domesticity, so far little explored in contrast to other approaches, offers a way to examine how educational architecture unsettles...
ARQ 122 | Housing: Domestic Plot
If taken literally, housing is the origin myth of architecture. If less so, we might say that it is in housing where the discipline has found one of its most persistent questions: the relationship between space and ways of life, between production and reproduction....
The 8th Frascari Symposium
The 8th edition of the Frascari Symposium turns the focus from architecture to the architect. The profession’s figure, often idealized as a singular creative genius, has always been shaped by shifting pedagogies, ideologies, and material conditions. Today, as new...
Architecture and Ethics of Care
On the most general level, we suggest that caring be viewed as a species activity that includes everything we do to maintain, continue, and repair our world so we can live as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, our selves, and our environment, all of...
Specters of Architecture: The Negative Voices of the Project
The International Study Days organized by LIAT and EVCAU, will take place on May 20 and 21, 2026, at ENSA Paris-Val de Seine, Université Paris Cité, and ENSA Paris-Malaquais - PSL. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Architecture and infrastructures are inhabited by specters, which...
Stoà n° 16
The proposed reflection focuses this time on the why rather than the how: not so much, or not only, on the tools and teaching methods that structure architectural design education, but rather on the objectives for which those same methods are conceived and those tools...
CLARA 13 | Architecture has a soil problem
Clara and guest editors Jolein Bergers, Nadia Casabella, Seth Denizen, and Ananda Kohlbrenner are launching a call for papers for the thematic section "Architecture has a soil problem" of issue 13, to be published in 2027. Architecture has a soil problem. Not only...