The 1970s, also known as the decade of “development,” witnessed not only an unprecedented flow of capital to the Global South but also a steady stream of technical specialists and advisors. Western-educated architects and engineers were contracted by the Ministries of...

“WATERLINES” Research, Projects and Visions for the Connection between Cities and Waterfronts International Conference Ancona, September 5–6, 2025 The international conference WATERLINES. Research, Projects and Visions for the Connection between Cities and...

What stories do abandoned buildings still hold? Can they be transformed to serve new purposes without losing their essence? How can architects balance history and innovation? This conference delves into the art and challenge of adaptive reuse, where past and present...

The aim of this editorial initiative, promoted by the research project Retranslates1 and the Department of Architecture and Design at the Politecnico di Torino, is to develop a historical and critical investigation into the network of exchanges and mutual influences...

Women’s History Today: the Journal of the Women’s History Network is seeking expressions of interest for articles to be included in a Special Issue focused on tracing the education and career paths of women in the professions of the built environment with a special...

HIG Emerging Scholars Symposium The Society of Architectural Historians Historic Interiors Group (HIG), in collaboration with Virginia Commonwealth University, is seeking proposals for its 5th Annual Emerging Scholars Symposium, If These Walls Could Talk: Fiction,...

The Jaap Bakema Study Centre has announced a call for papers for its annual conference, to be held on 26 and 27 November. This year’s conference, entitled Networks of (Ex)Change, is being organised in collaboration with the gta Archive of the ETH Zürich and focuses on...

Convenors: Elif Kaymaz (Middle East Technical University), Caner Arıkboğa (Middle East Technical University) Military architecture is a spatial paradox—designed for permanence yet subject to decay, built for impenetrability yet frequently abandoned, and if in use,...

Art can serve as the foundation and purpose for research, providing motivation, context, and methodologies. This approach is often defined as Artistic Research (AR), and its goal is to articulate a framework that positions art both as an object of study and as well as...

The conference was held between 24-26 September. You may explore all conference contributions through the following links: Book of abstracts - https://www.passages.polimi.it/book-of-abstracts/ Contributions - https://www.passages.polimi.it/discover/ Call for Abstracts...

Convenor(s): Özgün Özçakır (Middle East Technical University), Mesut Dinler (Politecnico di Torino) As the climate crisis intensifies, historic environments are increasingly susceptible to extreme weather events, rising temperatures, and environmental degradation....

The construction of context, understood not only as a set of material, physical and spatial conditions, but also as a system of cultural, social and historical relations, is a fundamental step in defining the pedagogical project. Contexts are not just repositories...