Guest editors: Alejandro Aravena, Michela Bassanelli, Agim Kërçuku, Matteo Poli From the middle of the afternoon, after the violent tremors and rumbling pushing up from deep in the earth, the Tohoku area and its vicinity was cut off from everything. It was then that...
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SAH 2027 | Session Zootechnical Architecture
Session Chairs: Sofia Nannini, Politecnico di Torino and Víctor Muñoz Sanz, TU Delft With origins in mid-nineteenth-century France, the scientific discipline of zootechnics transformed animal husbandry into an industrial practice. Merging veterinary science, genetics,...
Castello del Valentino Dialogues 2026 Multispecies Voices from the Architectural Archives: Exercises in Style
Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino September 9–11, 2026 Call for applications The Castello del Valentino Dialogues is a platform that aims at creating a dynamic forum for crafting alternative ways of thinking, exploring and writing the urban....
Thresholds 55: Property
Edited by Maia Adele Simon and Hana Nikčević Thresholds, the annual peer-reviewd journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture and published by the MIT Press, is now accepting submissions for Thresholds 55: Property. Submission deadline: May 1, 2026....
Building Power Symposium
CALL FOR PAPER From monumental institutions to infrastructures, from domestic interiors to objects, the built environment has consistently operated as a medium through which power materializes in space. Architecture is never neutral: it structures hierarchies,...
Identity, Modernity, and (Post)coloniality in the Architecture of the Arab Gulf
International conference in History of architecture organized by SAFIR Institute and the Department of Art History and Archeology, Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, 28 October 2026 A fleeting view from the multiple lanes of a motorway into Abu Dhabi’s or Dubai’s urban...
JOELHO 18
EDITORS Nuno Grande, Nuno Correia, Paula del Río “Ground floor” is an architectural concept that synthesises two spatial relationships: one with the soil; the other with the collective, the common. Through the ground floor, a building is tied to the earth and a...
The Detail as the Convergence of Structure and Architecture: History, Theory, and Articulation
Mini Symposia explores novel experimental topics that extend the general conference themes. Each mini symposia is formulated by expert researchers and gathers key contributions on the symposia theme in up to 4 sub-sessions of up to 6 speakers. All interested authors...
Estonian Academy of Arts opens Call for Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellows
Join our Estonian Academy of Arts team as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow! Estonian Academy of Arts invites young and talented researchers to express their interest in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship programme (MSCA PF), which provides funding for...
gta Doctoral Colloquium
5-6 October 2026 2026 Theme: «Methods of Engagement» Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta) Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, Zurich Switzerland The gta institute of the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich invites doctoral students to...
“Debris/Macerie”, Studi e ricerche di storia dell’architettura 20 (2026)
Two months after the ‘truce’ between Hamas and the Israeli government, the debris of Gaza continues to confront us (and every day new wars and new disasters add to the pile). In this issue we propose to treat it as a historiographical node, focusing not so much on the...
Transsylvania Nostra Journal – Call for Papers 2026
Transsylvania Nostra Journal invites the submission of articles for the 2026 issues. We welcome original research papers addressing the following thematic areas: 2026/1 – Central Squares and Urban Heritage In European cities, the central square has traditionally been...