Architecture that exhibits commonality or neutrality, dependent upon its situation and context – buffer zones, no-mans-lands, and transitional spaces have spawned a range of programmes that facilitate either community interaction and cross cultural dialogue or conflict, smuggling, escapes, rituals, parades, performances, protests and other kinds of border events.
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Deadline Extended: The Zero Degree of Architectural Writing: Theorizing, Drawing, and Debating the ‘Third Term’
This symposium explores the history of the idea of ‘zero degree’ of architectural writing, as it moved across the globe in various media and theatres of debate, and its resonance in the present.
Deadline Extended: SEEDS 2022: Sustainability Across the Built and Natural Environments
The 2022 conference themes seek to draw responses from the wider fields of Engineering, Design, Sustainability and Ecology.
PastForward 2022 Session Proposals
Organizers are looking for ideas for conference content under Historic Preservation is Climate Action; Encouraging Inclusion and Diversity Through Preservation; and Understanding Preservation’s Role in Real Estate Development.
gta edition, volume 3
gta edition is a peer-reviewed series of short monographs that take a fresh and provocative look at seemingly well-known aspects of architectural theory, thus engaging in contemporary historiography and the production of theory in architecture.
Agora II: (Un)common Precedents
Often, early design years include pedagogical exercises in building surveys and recording. Yet, design influence for architects can also expand beyond buildings.
Dismantling the canon through multidisciplinary encounters: the cases of diplomatic legations in the city
This session aims to confront narratives about diplomatic spatial settings that involve those voices that current historiographies have so far neglected.
Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment
Portrayal of computational infrastructures as neutral solutions that open participation in design hides the social, political, and environmental entanglements involved in their creation and expansion.
Restoration and Promotion of Architectural Monuments in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and First Half of the 20th Centuries
This international workshop aims to identify some of the methods, actors, ideas and principles behind restoration of architectural monuments and their promotion to a wider public on the territories of the former Russian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires and their successor states.
ENTANGLED MILIEUS: Co-Constituting a Shared Futurity (slow, un-disciplined conference)
The upcoming conference will investigate how architecture and landscape architecture as a material-discursive practice profoundly acts upon these thick surfaces and critical zones.
Deadline Extended: Prospectives: The Algorithmic Form
The new issue will explore the use of algorithms in architecture, how their use is evolving and progressing and the contribution they make to architecture and the built environment.
Renaissance Conference
These conferences offer young scholars the occasion to explore and discuss their different research methods and lines of inquiry, and give a comprehensive view of the many different emerging research approaches to architectural history and to the analysis of the relations between architecture and the other visual arts in the Renaissance.
