The issue examines the complex sets of relationships and contexts that shape architecture’s mediality as a result of the rising instability in the constitution of the urban during ongoing turbulent environmental, societal and cultural transformations.
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6th Frascari Symposium: Finishing: The Ends of Architecture
This conference seeks to expand the conceptualization of finishing and explain the practices of finishing in architecture along three currents: the surface, the project, and most broadly, architectural time itself.
Women as Builders, Designers and Critics of the Built Environment, 1200 – 1800
The edited volume will recover women’s agency within the built environment in the urban and rural setting from the perspective of distinct and often overlapping roles women have played
The Architecture Exhibition Operating as a Cross-Cultural Contact Zone
This thematic issue engages with the methodological challenge of writing a global history of architecture through the lens of architecture exhibitions operating as cross-cultural ‘contact zones’.
Ardeth #11 – KEY WORDS
This call for papers seeks to bring together contributions from the various disciplines involved in architectural design, with the aim of instigating an open discussion on the theme of key words through different kinds of experience and research.
Clara. Intermediality in Architecture. Representation and the Aesthetics of Reflexivity
The journal Clara invites proposals for its next issue on the contemporary intermedial condition of architecture.
UAAC-AAUC Conference 2022
This session welcomes paper presentations from all periods and latitudes, including those recent experiences under COVID-19 pandemic circumstances, which have dealt with hybrid practices of analogue and digital methodologies.
Liberated Histories & Imperial Afterlives: Architecture, Urbanism, Heritage, & Hybridity in Post-Colonial Conditions
The conference seeks studies exploring the ways that architectural and urban history can serve as tools in the recovery of histories that have been erased, denied, or otherwise attacked in the course of imperial conquest and colonization.
Beyond housing. Transnational programs and speculative developments
Organizers seek to establish the common grounds of housing aid/assistance schemes and the subsequent small-to-big scale speculative developments experienced in countries which received any kind of foreign aid/assistance during the second half of the 20th century beyond economic/political/geographical limitations.
Journal of Architectural Design and History: Heritage Cities as Project
The first issue of the journal aims at investigating the visions and the multiple forms of the project as (transformation, enhancement, exhibition, …) intervention in World Heritage Cities.
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The open Call For Papers is in Spanish or Portuguese and is open to teachers, graduate students, or professionals with a master’s or doctoral degree.
Writing Alternative Histories of Disaster Relief: Architecture and Humanitarianism
The session sets out to correct the canonical histories of disaster relief that are largely dominated by the narratives of UN interventions, instead exploring the collaboration between architects and humanitarian organizations, such as the League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS), the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and the International Rescue Committee (IRC), whose contributions have largely been overshadowed by the UN.