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The editors are delighted to extend an invitation to scholars interested in contributing a short essay on the topic of Adaptive Reuse in Architecture. Selected submissions will be included as entries in a “glossary” featured within a pioneering book that aims to explore diverse theoretical approaches.
Women influenced the global dissemination of modern architecture and design through a range of entrepreneurial roles. Proposals are invited for papers that address these too often overlooked activities.
The environmental approach encompasses everything from the smallest and most specific to the broadest and most generic, and in its ambition to embrace architecture at large, it also covers the city, which is as much a powerful economic, political, and social construct as it is a complex network of ecosystems: the quintessential environmental invention of humans.
This initiative proposes a critical review of the figure and role of parish complexes to an update on the spatial articulation, management and planning models for parish complexes suited to the conditions of contemporary cities.
You are kindly invited to participate in the third edition of the symposium dedicated to the practice of exhibiting art, architecture, and design in Slovenia.
Greek architect Dimitris Pikionis designed the archaeological site in Philopappou Hill in Athens between 1954 and 1958. The general idea of the design was laid out by marking paths and selecting a series of points related to orientation and views. Arranged according...
For the EAHN 2024, the Focus Group Building Word Image wants to continue its ongoing thematic discussion on ‘Mediatising the Domestic’ by focussing on untold and original material histories of home objects through modern and contemporary media. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers, spanning the last three centuries and including a global geographical scope.
Footprint 36 seeks to explore architectural technicities that overcome poorly defined problems and
reinvigorate (post)critical thinking, requiring a transdisciplinary mode of operation that breaks with
the anti-intellectualist tradition of specialisation, professionalisation, and knowledge fragmentation.
The goal is to provide a platform to discuss a much neglected aspect in urban historiography – rural forms of governance over space and how these forms have interacted with imperial or transregional edicts concerning use of resources.
If the common thread proposed is that of the activity of the Dutch West India Company, the project also aims to consider the whole vast cultural, diplomatic, artistic, scientific, anthropological and gastronomic panorama that the approach to such a topic necessarily brings with itself, and will therefore also evaluate the tangencies and interactions with travels and exchanges also made by other European states and kingdoms in the period considered.
The relations established between the ecclesiastical hierarchies, politicians, intellectual scholars of religious and social sciences, architects and artists lead to the construction of thousands of new churches throughout Europe in a short time, even before the post-conciliar revolution. These were immediately understood by all the institutional stakeholders and communities involved not only as indistinct pieces of the complex mosaic of the neighbourhood, but as identity points of the new settlement realities, architectural, social and cultural nerve centres for the residents.
Middle East Technical University Graduate Program in Architectural History organizes a series of symposiums bi-annually, open to graduate students and researchers who have recently completed their Ph.D. studies.