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Enabling Boundaries: Rethinking Spatial Categories, Epistemic Challenges, and Transformative Design Practices School of Architecture, Jade University of Applied Sciences, Oldenburg, Germany, June 5, 2026 Deadline: March 6, 2026 Symposium Theme: Urban planning and...
We live in a global ecosystem marked by interconnected challenges, including climate change, social inequalities, urban transformations, health emergencies, digital transitions, and crises of care and living. These are complex problems with multiple interdependent...
Since the fall of European empires, the metanarratives of modernity in architecture and its assumed progressive, liberal value systems have been profoundly questioned by post and de-colonial critiques. Today, modernity and modernism, once (within specific geopolitical...
The Global Neoclassicism Project Online Symposium: Neoclassicism in the Extended Field: A Global Project 28-30 May 2026 Co-chaired by: Faraz Olfat - PhD candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Rebecca Yuste - PhD candidate, Department of Art...
This conference invites proposals examining how modernist architecture in the Mediterranean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Global South is being re-evaluated and reinterpreted in response to contemporary ecological, political, and cultural challenges. Focusing on...
International Conference, Zurich, 2-4 September 2026 The term ‘character’ is part of today’s vocabulary of architecture: we casually refer to the ‘character’ of specific buildings or landscapes, and the ‘characteristics’ of projects or historical city centres, to...
The Lessons of Rome aim to propose a space for reflection for anyone who grasps Italy as an architectural, urban, and landscape research laboratory. Defining Italy as a laboratory involves analyzing contexts of urban policies but also as design experiences, theories,...
It is a widely shared diagnosis that translocal connectivity and interdependence of events and processes are defining characteristics of the present. Beyond the development of increasingly powerful infrastructures for the transport of goods and data – which have led...
Beyond their pedagogical functions, school buildings have long served as discrete instruments of cultural and ideological articulation. Domesticity, so far little explored in contrast to other approaches, offers a way to examine how educational architecture unsettles...
If taken literally, housing is the origin myth of architecture. If less so, we might say that it is in housing where the discipline has found one of its most persistent questions: the relationship between space and ways of life, between production and reproduction....
The 8th edition of the Frascari Symposium turns the focus from architecture to the architect. The profession’s figure, often idealized as a singular creative genius, has always been shaped by shifting pedagogies, ideologies, and material conditions. Today, as new...
On the most general level, we suggest that caring be viewed as a species activity that includes everything we do to maintain, continue, and repair our world so we can live as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, our selves, and our environment, all of...