Organizers seek to establish the common grounds of housing aid/assistance schemes and the subsequent small-to-big scale speculative developments experienced in countries which received any kind of foreign aid/assistance during the second half of the 20th century beyond economic/political/geographical limitations.
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Journal of Architectural Design and History: Heritage Cities as Project
The first issue of the journal aims at investigating the visions and the multiple forms of the project as (transformation, enhancement, exhibition, …) intervention in World Heritage Cities.
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The open Call For Papers is in Spanish or Portuguese and is open to teachers, graduate students, or professionals with a master’s or doctoral degree.
Writing Alternative Histories of Disaster Relief: Architecture and Humanitarianism
The session sets out to correct the canonical histories of disaster relief that are largely dominated by the narratives of UN interventions, instead exploring the collaboration between architects and humanitarian organizations, such as the League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS), the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and the International Rescue Committee (IRC), whose contributions have largely been overshadowed by the UN.
Canon(s) and Icon(s): re-wondering a North-South contamination
This edited book aims at confronting the rhetoric(s) on multiple exchanges between Nordic European countries and Southern ones, also beyond their European boundaries including Global South, spanning from traditional methods of architectural research to the more experimental and artistic formats.
RSA San Juan 2023_The Material Culture of Magnificence in Early Modern Cities
This session proposes to study the material culture of magnificence in early modern cities as a specific topic.
Deep Surface – Rethinking Surfaces with Art and Architecture
Metode invites artists, designers, and architects to unite with researchers from the humanities to explore creative and risky ways of assembling new knowledge about surfaces through words and works.
Building Data: Architecture, Memory and New Imaginaries
Vast amounts of data of the built environment are continuously generated, stored, retrieved, updated, edited, and resaved – a seemingly endless cycle of coding and recoding of the past and the present, and of possible futures.
The Architecture of Global Governance
A special issue of Architectural Theory Review (vol. 27, no. 1), edited by Sven Sterken (KU Leuven)
and Dennis Pohl (TU Delft/Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).
Bartlett Prospectives Journal Issue03
This third issue will explore the implications of technologies on humans and ecologies in the era of climate catastrophes and increasing instability.
Les Cahiers 17: How Environmentalist Mobilizations Shape Buildings, Cities and Landscapes
Environmental awareness has grown steadily over the past decades, shaping public conduct and everyday practices at nearly all levels of society.
Graz Architecture Magazine – GAM.19 – Professionalism
GAM.19 is interested in the tensions arising between these poles of the architectural
profession and asks about different manifestations of architecture as a professional practice.

