Body Matters aims to investigate notions of Body in contemporary architectural discourses. Always a fundamental in architecture, the body needs to be reconsidered on its own terms, as a creative, material and philosophical concern.
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Materia Arquitectura 26: Cartography and Resistance
Throughout the 26th issue of Materia Arquitectura, the editors are looking for the cartography of resistances that are
being built in the conflicts of the present, but also those that are still silenced in the archive, with the intention
of recognizing ‘bodies’ –human and non-human, subaltern and outside the norm, clandestine or oppressed,
with ignored or unrecognized identity– and ‘territories’ –borders, peripheries, refugee camps, ghettos,
colonies, slums, shantytowns, popular neighborhoods– traditionally excluded from architectural thought
because of their mundane and subversive conditions.
Architectural Theory Review 28:3, Architectures of Informal Empire
This issue seeks to explore the boundaries of what can be considered “colonial” in histories of architecture and urbanism, in the past as in the present.
DocTalks and DocTalks x MoMA CfP Spring 2024
DocTalks is an informal, peer-to-peer, weekly online forum by and for PhD students, postdocs and early career researchers in architectural history and theory.
ACTIVISM! The political dimension of heritage in the post-communist world
This call for position papers focuses on the activism related to these processes and debates and its role in both redefining the terms of heritage and (re)fueling a political involvement with the concerned collectivities.
Avant-Garde and War
The organizers invite innovative and freshly-researched proposals for creative and critical presentations – in all areas of avant-garde and modernist practice across all of the arts – which frame and re-frame our thinking about avant-gardism/modernism and war.
Beyond CIAM: Transnational Networks of Late Modernism
In line with the subtheme 8: Modernity and Diversity, the organizers would like to analyze how journals, conferences and personal and educational networks fostered exchange between architects and regions and nurtured the architectural debate beyond the Central European canon.
Radical Roof Gardens: Dream Spaces of Social Cohesion and Private Retreat
This session invites abstracts for research papers on modern roof gardens, with a particular focus on the twentieth century.
Educating in Architecture, Cities and Landscapes: New challenges for the 21st century
Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère (Craup) This issue of Craup does not seek to delve into new institutional frameworks, actors and teaching methods, but rather to highlight their effects on pedagogy. As “sets of interrelated pedagogical...
Vesper No. 11: Miserabilia
Miserabilia aims to focus on spaces and spectres of misery in imagination and reality.
The Lessons of Rome (7th edition)
The Lessons of Rome aim to propose a space for reflection for anyone who grasps Italy as an architectural, urban, and landscape research laboratory.
STOÀ Journal n. 11, year IV, 3/3 [Schools]
The aim of the call is to explore how the physical space of learning, namely university buildings as pedagogical devices, bears specific intentions linked to particular aims, educational programmes and learning objectives.