This symposium seeks to raise awareness of traditions of vernacular adaptation and reuse, including cultural responses to ruins, layering of settlements, repurposed architectural fragments, temporary habitations and obsolete building typologies.
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Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition ARCHIVE
The website sets out to collect the rest of the 17,000 competition entries that did not win any award but are considered crucial in making the history of the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition (1965-present) more global and inclusive.
Journal18 #15 CITIES
The city is, after all, its people: people who occupied and inhabited buildings, shared spaces and resources, and invested in or were inspired by ideas, labor, and beliefs.
Drawings as Objects of Knowledge Transpositions in Architectural Archives
The symposium opens up the archives and the design knowledge they produce, exploring how they can be made operative within the field of architectural history and theory, in order to feed the current design practice.
Building Technology and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region: Histories and Projects
This Symposium attempts to reconcile technical exploration and social dimension in spatial imagination, recognizing that technology is culture, and constructive choices are always historically determined.
Writing the History of the Built Environments of Asia: Materiality, Translations, and Colonialism
In this reimagination, knowledge on “Asia” acknowledges the multiplicities of these different lands, as well as connections, monetary exchanges, and translations within, into, and from it.
Catherine Bauer (Wurster) Panel at the Nineteenth National Conference on Planning History
In an effort to bring Bauer’s legacies together in conversation, Penner and housing historian Matthew Lasner aim to convene a panel at the Nineteenth National Conference on Planning History, sponsored by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History.
‘Voices in Architecture’ AHRA Research Student Symposium
A key objective of the symposium will be to connect architectural research with wider political concerns around democracy, protest and populism and we are particularly attentive to processes of public engagement and empowerment, social stratification and elitism.
Symposium Under the Landscape
The Symposium Under the Landscape aims for a critical reevaluation of the very term and notion of the ‘landscape’ and its potential value as a meeting ground for strategic collaborations.
rita_ journal: issue 17
rita_ is an indexed journal of academic texts that publishes articles, essays and critical reviews, related to the project, theory and practice of architecture from its widest spectrum of action and thought.
AA Saturated Space
The Saturated Space Research Cluster at the Architectural Association School of Architecture is looking for exciting new articles about architecture, urbanism and space in which colour is the central protagonist.
Para-colonial – Colonial – Post-colonial: Influences and Transactions in the Architecture of Oceania (1840–1990)
Extended Deadline: 10 January 2022. Knowledge on colonial architecture in the South Pacific is still sparse. Connections with pre-colonial settings and the post-colonial afterlife of this built legacy are often missing.