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The “new mobility turn” goes hand in hand with the intention to explore urban planning strategies that aim to contribute to a significant reduction in the use of individual car, and to an increase of the use of public transportation in our everyday life.
This workshop will provide a platform where participants are able to deeply communicate with editors and reviewers from Architectural Histories and EAHN on how to enrich their reach, diversify their content, and expand their media presence. It aspires to support emerging scholars to contribute to more inclusive cultures in architectural histories and their academic publishing outlets.
If the principal milestones of the history of 20th century international competitions are firmly established today, historiography struggles to produce syntheses concerning national competitions with a few rare exceptions, most notably the 19th century which has remained largely unexplored to this day.
As we recover from the pandemic which highlighted social inequalities in the nation’s health, this symposium will consider what we can learn from as well as about history.
Adopting an understanding of architecture in a widened sense – as practice, knowledge and a way of looking; as process, representation and consolidated capital; as a form of spatial organisation that shapes social conditions as much as being shaped by it – makes us uniquely able to transgress the borders between the real and the imaginary.
This special issue of IJIA focuses on the impact of the current climate crisis on the built environments of the Islamic world.
The aim of the symposium is to share and discuss new, original and emerging perspectives on the transformation potential of the single-family house.
New forms of adaptable designs and constructive flexibility may help society in achieving new models of comfort that resolve spatial issues more effectively and propose patterns that can set innovative minimum habitation standards.
Architecture that exhibits commonality or neutrality, dependent upon its situation and context – buffer zones, no-mans-lands, and transitional spaces have spawned a range of programmes that facilitate either community interaction and cross cultural dialogue or conflict, smuggling, escapes, rituals, parades, performances, protests and other kinds of border events.
This symposium explores the history of the idea of ‘zero degree’ of architectural writing, as it moved across the globe in various media and theatres of debate, and its resonance in the present.
The 2022 conference themes seek to draw responses from the wider fields of Engineering, Design, Sustainability and Ecology.
Organizers are looking for ideas for conference content under Historic Preservation is Climate Action; Encouraging Inclusion and Diversity Through Preservation; and Understanding Preservation’s Role in Real Estate Development.