If taken literally, housing is the origin myth of architecture. If less so, we might say that it is in housing where the discipline has found one of its most persistent questions: the relationship between space and ways of life, between production and reproduction....
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The 8th Frascari Symposium
The 8th edition of the Frascari Symposium turns the focus from architecture to the architect. The profession’s figure, often idealized as a singular creative genius, has always been shaped by shifting pedagogies, ideologies, and material conditions. Today, as new...
Architecture and Ethics of Care
On the most general level, we suggest that caring be viewed as a species activity that includes everything we do to maintain, continue, and repair our world so we can live as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, our selves, and our environment, all of...
Specters of Architecture: The Negative Voices of the Project
The International Study Days organized by LIAT and EVCAU, will take place on May 20 and 21, 2026, at ENSA Paris-Val de Seine, Université Paris Cité, and ENSA Paris-Malaquais - PSL. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Architecture and infrastructures are inhabited by specters, which...
Stoà n° 16
The proposed reflection focuses this time on the why rather than the how: not so much, or not only, on the tools and teaching methods that structure architectural design education, but rather on the objectives for which those same methods are conceived and those tools...
CLARA 13 | Architecture has a soil problem
Clara and guest editors Jolein Bergers, Nadia Casabella, Seth Denizen, and Ananda Kohlbrenner are launching a call for papers for the thematic section "Architecture has a soil problem" of issue 13, to be published in 2027. Architecture has a soil problem. Not only...
Tools of the Trade. Architecture’s Critical Instruments
Architects have always created or borrowed practical, conceptual, and discursive means to imagine, communicate, and achieve their work. Such means are neither neutral, nor are they mere technicalities. From the draftsman's pencil and the ephemeral logic of formwork to...
International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) | Reimagining Islamic Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Special Issue: Reimagining Islamic Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries Thematic volume planned for July 2028 Guest Editors: Emily Neumeier & Jennifer Pruitt Proposal submission deadline: 15 December 2025 We invite submissions for this special issue of the...
Architecture in the Critical Zone | AIARG 15th Annual Conference 2026
The theme for the 15th annual conference of the All-Ireland Architecture Research Group (AIARG) invites discussion on how architecture, and the practices that surround it, engage with the challenge of reconceiving the terrestrial. Our title derives from the French...
The Materialities of the Ephemeral City
What builds a city is more than materials meant to cross time. Since its origins, the permanent city has always been overlaid with ephemeral layers that interrupt and reshape the everyday use of streets, squares and buildings. Festivals, religious processions,...
Clara no. 13 Archives and Positions
Clara launches a call for papers for its Archives and Position(s) sections, to be published in issue 13. Clara is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in architecture dedicated to topics, research methods and tools specific to the field. Each issue comprises a main...
Weird Science, Isolated Intelligence: Histories of Architecture, Technology, and Evolution
International Symposium, Round Tables and Lecture Series December 2025- May 2026 Curated by Lina Malfona, polit(t)ico research lab This call for proposals invites reflections on the interplay between invention and creativity, science and architecture. Inspired by the...