Research Day: Hors Catégorie On Thursday 20 November 2025, the Flanders Architecture Institute organises its annual research day in De Singel in Antwerp. Entitled Hors catégorie, it explores how archival classifications shape – but also limit – our understanding of...
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Laboring Landscapes: Workers’ Agency in Transforming Agricultural Spaces
Laboring Landscapes: Workers’ Agency in Transforming Agricultural Spaces Session 07 at Architecture and Labour, III Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes International Congress Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon | 11–13 February 2026 We invite paper proposals for...
WOMEN ARCHITECTS UNDER STATE SOCIALISM
WOMEN ARCHITECTS UNDER STATE SOCIALISM: ONLINE WORKSHOP EAHN WOMEN AND GENDER IN ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE AND URBAN DESIGN INTEREST GROUP The EAHN Women and Gender in Architecture Landscape and Urban Design Interest Group, is inviting presentation proposals for our...
SAH 79th Annual International Conference, Mexico City
We are now accepting abstracts for its 79th Annual International Conference in Mexico City, Mexico, April 15–19, 2026. Authors may submit abstracts to one of the 54 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks, or the Open Sessions for the Mexico City...
Cities and Powers. Comparing European Civic Architecture Over the Long Term (12th–18th Centuries)
Chaired by Marco Folin (Università di Genova), the Session 2.15 Comparing European Civic Architecture Over the Long Term (12th–18th Centuries) is part of the 12th AISU CONGRESS - THE CROSSROAD CITY Relations and Exchanges, Intersections and Crossing Points in Urban...
Building for Higher Education: Cities and Temples of Knowledge (1930-1990)
15th International Conference on the History of Modern Architecture "BUILDING FOR HIGHER EDUCATION: CITIES AND TEMPLES OF KNOWLEDGE (1930-1990)" There are many buildings for higher education teaching that have occupied a prominent place in the development of...
The Brutalist City. Concrete as a Tool for Urban and Intercultural Experimentation
You are welcome to submit your abstract proposal for a paper in the framework of the session “7.13 The Brutalist City. Concrete as a Tool for Urban and Intercultural Experimentation” at the 12th Congress of the Italian Association of Urban History/Associazione...
Metode Vol. 4 | Exhibition as Method
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...
Conference Critic|all grapho-logics
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...
Good Governance and the Built Environment of Late Medieval Cities (ca. 1200–1600)
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...
Journal COTAA | The Double
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...
Who Owns Heritage? Local Communities and the Fight for Historical Monuments in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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...