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Guest editors: Carlos A. Segura y Richard Gerald—Rondón Institutions are inevitable conventions. They classify, create temporalities, remember and forget precedents, and authorize or censor narratives. They capture the shifting features of reality in order to serve...
The word 'heirloom' evokes objects tucked away in wardrobes, imbued with woody, musty fragrance, aged with patina and eerie silence – rescued, retained, preserved, and remembered. Their fate remains unpredictable: second-hand stores, antique shops, auction houses,...
What is the domestic? Modernity closely bound this concept to the house, and especially to bourgeois 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...
Date: September 25, 2026 (virtual) Proposal Deadline: June 10, 2026 Link to CFP: https://sahhistoricinteriorsaffiliategroup.sah.hcommons.org/2026/05/12/call-for-papers-no-fixed-abode-histories-of-the-mobile-and-itinerant-interior/ The Historic Interiors Group (HIG),...
The international symposium Mapping Architectural Integration (1960–2000) aims to critically examine architectural approaches, projects, and debates in which the sensitive and contextual integration of contemporary architecture into historic cities emerged as a...
A+I Working Paper Series, Issue #03 | Guest Editor: Jingliang Du Abstract Deadline (300 words): 8 June 2026 This issue invites contributions that examine how architectural labour organised, mediated, and contested colonial and imperial power, with a focus on East...
Intelligent Archives invites researchers and practitioners to rethink the role of the archive in the age of Generative AI. AI systems rely on the cataloguing, structuring, and processing of large amounts of data. As a result, archives and preservation practices can no...
At a time of fundamental social and political upheaval, when the emancipatory impulses of the revolutions in the United States and France were making themselves felt across the world, architecture around 1800 turned back to the canon of classical forms. This apparent...