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The purpose of this call for abstracts is to collect and discuss the current research on the history of holiday camps in Europe between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular consideration of the contemporary reuse and restoration strategies of this architectural heritage.
Cuadernos de la Alhambra is a scientific journal in the field of heritage research and diffusion; it was founded in 1965 and is free to access and free of charge.
The aim of the conference is to contribute to a better understanding of the didactics of architectural theory from the 1960s to the present.
The symposium focuses on the production and communication of knowledge about architecture and landscape architecture connected with design-related research projects.
This symposium seeks to raise awareness of traditions of vernacular adaptation and reuse, including cultural responses to ruins, layering of settlements, repurposed architectural fragments, temporary habitations and obsolete building typologies.
The website sets out to collect the rest of the 17,000 competition entries that did not win any award but are considered crucial in making the history of the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition (1965-present) more global and inclusive.
The city is, after all, its people: people who occupied and inhabited buildings, shared spaces and resources, and invested in or were inspired by ideas, labor, and beliefs.
The symposium opens up the archives and the design knowledge they produce, exploring how they can be made operative within the field of architectural history and theory, in order to feed the current design practice.
This Symposium attempts to reconcile technical exploration and social dimension in spatial imagination, recognizing that technology is culture, and constructive choices are always historically determined.
In this reimagination, knowledge on “Asia” acknowledges the multiplicities of these different lands, as well as connections, monetary exchanges, and translations within, into, and from it.
In an effort to bring Bauer’s legacies together in conversation, Penner and housing historian Matthew Lasner aim to convene a panel at the Nineteenth National Conference on Planning History, sponsored by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History.
A key objective of the symposium will be to connect architectural research with wider political concerns around democracy, protest and populism and we are particularly attentive to processes of public engagement and empowerment, social stratification and elitism.