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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...
Mini Symposia explores novel experimental topics that extend the general conference themes. Each mini symposia is formulated by expert researchers and gathers key contributions on the symposia theme in up to 4 sub-sessions of up to 6 speakers. All interested authors...
Join our Estonian Academy of Arts team as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow! Estonian Academy of Arts invites young and talented researchers to express their interest in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship programme (MSCA PF), which provides funding for...
5-6 October 2026 2026 Theme: «Methods of Engagement» Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta) Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, Zurich Switzerland The gta institute of the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich invites doctoral students to...
Two months after the ‘truce’ between Hamas and the Israeli government, the debris of Gaza continues to confront us (and every day new wars and new disasters add to the pile). In this issue we propose to treat it as a historiographical node, focusing not so much on the...
Transsylvania Nostra Journal invites the submission of articles for the 2026 issues. We welcome original research papers addressing the following thematic areas: 2026/1 – Central Squares and Urban Heritage In European cities, the central square has traditionally been...
A conference, part of the Livable Cities Series, held at the University of Salford, Manchester in 17-19 June 2026.
As far as we know, it was Leon Battista Alberti who first set down in writing the reciprocal analogy between house and city. Writing in the mid-15th century—at a time when cities were believed to grow according to principles of natural law—he proposed the phrase now...
In the decades following the Second World War, coal developed from an extracted energy source to a multi- dimensional modernist project. Across Europe, as nations rebuilt after the conflict, coal mining became the epicentre of technological optimism, democratic...
The African Architectural and Urban History Network (AFRAUHN) in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Nairobi will be holding a major international conference from 8th–10th September 2026:...