This international conference will explore the appearances and functions of ephemeral objects, materials, and machineries used at court festivities, as well as their relations to spectacles and performances in general.

How can we revise the history of British art and architecture through the lens of the histories of emotions and senses? What can the history of British art and architecture add to our understanding of the histories of emotions and senses?

This international conference aims to bring together scholars interested in the history of the education of interior designers.

Trinity College Dublin, 22-24 June 2023 This three-day conference, hosted by the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College Dublin, will debate urban universities through their architectural and design histories. These will be examined in...

This conference seeks to direct attention to verifiable practices and material documentation of copying and imitation in the workshop and on the building site, and how this evidence sheds new light on the production of architecture.

A three-day international conference discussing the role of women in the creation of the spaces of the post-war Welfare States

The conference takes as its theme the coloniality of architecture and heritage in relation to the British Empire, from the early years of expansionism and the escalation of the slave trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through the physical and political force wielded in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the development of racial capitalism, to the subsequent and ongoing struggles for independence, freedom and justice. 

Happening in person and online, with advance registration required.

This conference seeks to expand the conceptualization of finishing and explain the practices of finishing in architecture along three currents: the surface, the project, and most broadly, architectural time itself.

Even though catalogs are widely mentioned in books and manuals of architectural history, specific studies still need to be more systematic. The purpose of this conference is to initiate this systematization