This session hopes to facilitate a pivotal change to how we look at the formation of architectural cultures in the past through the eyes of women and their lived experiences, considering questions of race, class, or religion, besides those of gender.
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Vitruvio vol. 8 iss. 2: Digitalization processes for the built environment
The editors are seeking contributions that investigate informative and computational modelling, as well as theories, methods, and technologies for the coordination and control of design, construction, transformation, and maintenance of buildings and infrastructures, as well as related product and process innovation for the improvement of economic, social, and environmental sustainability in the construction and infrastructure sector.
Vesper No. 10 Progetto Eden | Eden Project
Following the tradition of Italian paper journals, Vesper revives it by hosting a wide spectrum of narratives, welcoming
different writings and styles, privileging the visual intelligence of design, of graphic expression, of images and
contaminations between different languages.
Materiality in History of Architecture and Urban Planning: Evolutions of Techniques, Perceptions, and Analyzes
This session is intended for historians of Architecture and Urbanism, as well as building recording technicians: photographers, draftsmen, surveyors, geomaticians, etc.
Building Identity: Architecture’s Material Significations
This panel considers building materials as elements that participate in the shaping and representation of such identities from the early modern period to the 20th–century.
Kay Fisker Symposium – Appraisals and Reappraisals
The organizers particularly seek scholarly and didactic contributions which will contribute to mapping the international state of the art of interpretations, investigations, and insights into Fisker’s production.
FACES 83 + 84 / Light and Heavy
The next issues of FACES will focus on lightness vs. heaviness, two notions that often have an antonymic and antinomic relationship, signalling the opposition of two conceptual and practical propositions between which architects must in principle choose,
based on their location, culture, and building tradition and in accordance with their aesthetic, technical, economic, political, and ethical convictions.
An evolving architectural heritage today: direction and signification?
Considering all previously built structures as materials to be preserved and transformed challenges the very concept of heritage. Can the need for classification for restoration purposes coexist with the need to view all existing structures as a resource for transforming the world?
Drawing Attention to the Periphery
The organizers welcome papers that investigate peripheral conditions, drawing attention to the strangely familiar and the memorably unfamiliar; the events, encounters, forms, ideas, and narratives of the periphery.
International Conference on Architecture as Built Criticism
This year’s conference seeks papers that offer realized examples of architecture as built criticism.
Materia Arquitectura N°25: Out of Place Matter
This issue of Materia Arquitectura seeks contributions that explore these new conditions in the context of environmental degradation. It calls for research and design projects, both speculative and realized, that reformulate our relationship to the design of public spaces, environmental management systems, and our active role as citizens and professional custodians of the landscapes we inhabit.
Iberoamerican Conference on Sustainable Social Housing
This first edition of the conference is organized in collaboration between UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid).