“Antillean art,” remarked St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, “is this restoration of our shattered histories, our shards of vocabulary, our archipelago becoming a synonym for pieces broken off from the original...

Michel Foucault, in La volonté de savoir (1976), described how the mechanisms of the examination of conscience belonging to the pastoral tradition of the 17th century progressively extended to all areas of society, marking the threshold of a biopolitical modernity....

As climate disruption and ecological crises increasingly reshape planning policies, the design disciplines—architecture, urbanism, and landscape—are being called upon to reinvent themselves (Younès, 1999; Bognon, 2022; Rode, 2023). Yet the contours of this...

Coined by Thomas More in 1516, utopia holds a telling ambiguity: it means “no place” (ou-topos) but is sufficiently close to “good place” (eu-topos). Since then, the concept has oscillated between aspiration and critique—between imagining radical alternatives and...

Organizers: Irene Cheng, James Graham, Andrew Herscher, Diana Martinez Attention to material has become almost ubiquitous in recent architectural history, both extending and revising a modernist tradition of interest in material innovation and expression. Whether...

CIVICNESS: ARCHITECTURE AND THE POLITICS OF THE PUBLIC REALM Guest editors: Anna Livia Friel & Agustina Labarca Gatica The term character in architecture has long been contested. During the 17th century, it was defined as rational manifestation of a building’s...

Palm leaves loosely thatched create a bushy screen wall. The screen is part of a large building designed to shelter the pieces of other plants and make them dry out quickly. They are tobacco leaves, hanging from the rafters in neat rows swaying in the breeze. Nearby,...

The RIVELAZIONI international conference invites contributions that engage critically with spaces of marginalization, confinement, and invisibility – places that are physically or symbolically denied within contemporary society. These may include prisons, detention...

International conference: gta Institute (ETH Zurich) and CDHM (Geneva Graduate Institute). Organised by Andreas Kalpakci, Charlotte Rottiers, and Davide Rodogno Diplomatic interiors have long shaped how foreign relations are conducted. From ambassadorial residencies...

International Conference Organized by: MAIA, Master of Arts in Interior Architecture, HEAD – Genève (HES-SO) Scientific Committee: Javier Fernández Contreras, Youri Kravtchenko Date: 17 November 2025 Location: HEAD – Genève, Avenue de Châtelaine 7; 1203 Geneva The...

The congress, Mexico and Spain: Five Centuries of Architecture for a Shared History/México y España. Cinco siglos de arquitectura para una historia en común, will take place in Seville at the end of October 2026. More information related to the call for papers in...

Sasha (ULB) and ACTE (ULiège) research groups are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the conference “The Neglected Times of Architecture” to be held in Brussels on March 17 and 18, 2026. The framework of the conference, along with practical information, can...