This session is intended for historians of Architecture and Urbanism, as well as building recording technicians: photographers, draftsmen, surveyors, geomaticians, etc.

This panel considers building materials as elements that participate in the shaping and representation of such identities from the early modern period to the 20th–century.

The organizers particularly seek scholarly and didactic contributions which will contribute to mapping the international state of the art of interpretations, investigations, and insights into Fisker’s production.

The next issues of FACES will focus on lightness vs. heaviness, two notions that often have an antonymic and antinomic relationship, signalling the opposition of two conceptual and practical propositions between which architects must in principle choose,
based on their location, culture, and building tradition and in accordance with their aesthetic, technical, economic, political, and ethical convictions.

Considering all previously built structures as materials to be preserved and transformed challenges the very concept of heritage. Can the need for classification for restoration purposes coexist with the need to view all existing structures as a resource for transforming the world?

The organizers welcome papers that investigate peripheral conditions, drawing attention to the strangely familiar and the memorably unfamiliar; the events, encounters, forms, ideas, and narratives of the periphery.

This year’s conference seeks papers that offer realized examples of architecture as built criticism.

This issue of Materia Arquitectura seeks contributions that explore these new conditions in the context of environmental degradation. It calls for research and design projects, both speculative and realized, that reformulate our relationship to the design of public spaces, environmental management systems, and our active role as citizens and professional custodians of the landscapes we inhabit.

This first edition of the conference is organized in collaboration between UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid).

This special issue encourages contributions that address the urgent promises and risks that digital infrastructures, tools, and approaches hold. 

The conference is intended as a moment of reflection to verify the state of the art, rediscover aspects of Brazilian work that have remained in the shadows or even unknown, relaunch studies and offer support to ongoing protection and enhancement activities, with a view to fruitful collaboration between research institutes and institutes of the Ministry of Culture.