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Call for Papers: The Open Hand 2: Orientalism in the Pacific. Auckland, 9 September 2017. With the election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States and Brexit, it appears like we have been returned to aggressively hegemonic geopolitics and spatial...
Call for Papers: Architecture and professionalism. New approaches towards the work of Léon Stynen and his international contemporaries. International conference, deSingel, Antwerp, 7-8 December 2017. Flanders Architecture Institute – Architectural Archives of the...
Call for Papers: The Tools of the Architect. EAHN European Architectural History Network, International Thematic Conference. 22 – 24 November 2017. TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The European Architectural History Network (EAHN) is...
Call for Papers: Polemic. Cambridge, MA, 14 October 2017 The History, Theory, and Criticism program at MIT thus invites graduate students from architectural history, art history, communication studies, anthropology, and other related disciplines whose research broadly...
Call for Papers: Standard Architecture: From Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand to BIM. Frankfurt, 20-22 October 2017. Standardization has played a key role in architecture and construction since the Enlightenment. It accelerates building production, reduces costs, and assures...
Call for Papers: Aggression, Transgression, and the Avant-garde. Edinburgh, 6th June 2017. In the political tumult of the twentieth century, an era which saw humanity face the worst excesses of war, revolution, fascism, capitalism, and communism, the arts have...
Call for Papers: Das Bauhaus in der Provinz/The Bauhaus in the Provinces. Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Oldenburg, 2-3 November 2017. The research project “The Bauhaus in Oldenburg – Avant-garde in the Provinces” examines the history of cooperation...
Call for Papers: Defense(less) city, RHA Revista de Historia da Arte. The city is, by definition, alterity, difference. It is the human accomplishment par excellence, standing out from nature, isolating itself from it. The presumption of defense is inherent to the...
Final Conference of the BMBF Project “Portals as Places of Transformation” The medieval church portal is in many respects a place of transformation. At the threshold of a church, various spheres converge and meet: secular – ecclesiastic, corporeal – spiritual, earthly...
Resist, Reclaim, Speculate: Situated Perspectives on Architecture and the City Architectural Theory Review Deadline: June 1, 2017 In search of new forms of critical and creative resistance, the Editors of this issue of ATR call for situated, relational, and embodied...
The Art of Ornament. Meaning, Archetypes, Forms and Uses Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, November 23 - 25, 2017 Deadline: April 30, 2017 The topics suggested for proposals for participating in this Conference are generically the following, although others may be...
Call for Papers: Drawing Millions of Plans Conference. Copenhagen, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK), 1–3 November 2017. This conference invites scholars and practitioners to investigate and discuss contemporary architectural drawing and, in particular, the...