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This panel invites papers which examine the making of villages in the Islamic world from the medieval era to the second half of the twentieth century.
The panel aims at examining Tange‘s influence on European architecture and urban planning in a comprehensive way.
The ARDETH issue promotes the conceptual framework of “energy land- scapes” to question energy as cheap, abundant, and at the disposal of urban development. It critically examines concepts and methods for shaping future energy landscapes.
The journal is a scholarly periodical that aims to publish essays on topics related to all that pertains to Vitruvius and his work, the De Architectura, the only treatise on architecture that has come down to us complete from antiquity.
Architectural design pedagogy, in contrast to other pedagogies, draws from both theories and practices, contingencies, and immanences. What critical issues might arise for those involved in teaching, studying, and contributing to architectural design pedagogy, ultimately qualifying as central themes meriting in-depth exploration through the construction of a monographic issue of the journal, focused on pedagogical tools for architectural design teaching?
With a view to developing and disseminating the teachings of Bruno Zevi and his method of critical and historical inquiry, The Bruno Zevi Foundation annually holds an international competition to award a prize for a historical-critical essay offering an original...
While this session first and foremost explores ways to capture dynamism in historiography, it equally calls attention to the challenges that come with “crossing”: the necessity to combine multiple sources, the ever-present need to open counter-archives, and how to account for the hierarchies embedded in crossed histories.
Despite their common dynamism, these two fields of study–the history of ornament and the history of professions related to architecture –have so far rarely been connected to one another. The ambition of this colloquium is therefore to foster such a dialogue, to move towards a better understanding of the ‘professional worlds’ of ornament.
Rabat, February 20, 2024 The inaugural session of RHAM, Research Network on the History of Architecture in Morocco, 20th-21st Centuries (Réseau de recherche sur l'histoire de l'architecture au Maroc aux XXe-XXIe siècles, https://rham.hypotheses.org/), marks the...
With contributions across a range of disciplines, this thematic dossier puts forward the hypothesis
that technology today represents a space of differentiation and a place for negotiating plural and
conflicting interests, with a direct impact on material production, the organisation of work and
labour, and the definition of space.
This panel invites papers that investigate a ‘moving beyond’ ocularcentric perceptions of architecture within Britain.
The focus of interest will primarily be on the political, civic and architectural / artistic forms of appropriation on site and the strategies of dealing with them in terms of scientific methodology and monument conservation.