All architectural workers know it. That feeling you get behind your eyes after staring at Revit or Rhino for too long. Working overtime with computer fans raging against the digital entities you manipulate, themselves shadows of the information shared on some shadowy...

The Italian Association for Urban History and the Genoa Congress The Italian Association for Urban History is one of the leading European scholarly associations devoted to the study of urban history in all its dimensions. Since its foundation in 2001, it has promoted...

FILARCH 2026 is an international conference organized this year by the Architectural Association Design Research Lab and the Department of Architecture, University of Patras and hosted at the Architectural Association in London, on 19–21 November 2026. Originally...

Review editors Nicola Campri Claudia Mainardi Luigi Mandraccio Any experience regarding reality is grounded on what has already happened. Reviewing is a primary cognitive and critical process, which structures our relationship with real world through a retrospective...

Thirty years after the proclamation of Bigness, a vision of architecture conceived as a scalar device of urban power, we are now in a position to critically reassess its ambitions and limitations. That moment in architectural discourse, fueled by a strong confidence...

Guest editors: Alejandro Aravena, Michela Bassanelli, Agim Kërçuku, Matteo Poli From the middle of the afternoon, after the violent tremors and rumbling pushing up from deep in the earth, the Tohoku area and its vicinity was cut off from everything. It was then that...

Session Chairs: Sofia Nannini, Politecnico di Torino and Víctor Muñoz Sanz, TU Delft With origins in mid-nineteenth-century France, the scientific discipline of zootechnics transformed animal husbandry into an industrial practice. Merging veterinary science, genetics,...

Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino September 9–11, 2026 Call for applications The Castello del Valentino Dialogues is a platform that aims at creating a dynamic forum for crafting alternative ways of thinking, exploring and writing the urban....

Edited by Maia Adele Simon and Hana Nikčević Thresholds, the annual peer-reviewd journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture and published by the MIT Press, is now accepting submissions for Thresholds 55: Property. Submission deadline: May 1, 2026....

CALL FOR PAPER From monumental institutions to infrastructures, from domestic interiors to objects, the built environment has consistently operated as a medium through which power materializes in space. Architecture is never neutral: it structures hierarchies,...

International conference in History of architecture organized by SAFIR Institute and the Department of Art History and Archeology, Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, 28 October 2026 A fleeting view from the multiple lanes of a motorway into Abu Dhabi’s or Dubai’s urban...

EDITORS Nuno Grande, Nuno Correia, Paula del Río “Ground floor” is an architectural concept that synthesises two spatial relationships: one with the soil; the other with the collective, the common. Through the ground floor, a building is tied to the earth and a...