Following the tradition of Italian paper journals, Vesper revives it by hosting a wide spectrum of narratives, welcoming
different writings and styles, privileging the visual intelligence of design, of graphic expression, of images and
contaminations between different languages.
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Materiality in History of Architecture and Urban Planning: Evolutions of Techniques, Perceptions, and Analyzes
This session is intended for historians of Architecture and Urbanism, as well as building recording technicians: photographers, draftsmen, surveyors, geomaticians, etc.
Building Identity: Architecture’s Material Significations
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.
Kay Fisker Symposium – Appraisals and Reappraisals
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.
FACES 83 + 84 / Light and Heavy
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.
An evolving architectural heritage today: direction and signification?
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?
Drawing Attention to the Periphery
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.
International Conference on Architecture as Built Criticism
This year’s conference seeks papers that offer realized examples of architecture as built criticism.
Materia Arquitectura N°25: Out of Place Matter
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.
Iberoamerican Conference on Sustainable Social Housing
This first edition of the conference is organized in collaboration between UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid).
International Journal of Islamic Architecture Special Issue: The Urgency of the Digital
This special issue encourages contributions that address the urgent promises and risks that digital infrastructures, tools, and approaches hold.
The Vittoriano and the work of Armando Brasini
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.