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Denise Scott Brown: A Symposium
Fifty years after the publication of Learning from Las Vegas, Denise Scott Brown: A Symposium, convened by Frida Grahn, presents new scholarship related to the groundbreaking studio methods, developed by Scott Brown during her teaching career in the early 1960s.
SAH 2023 Annual International Conference
The SAH 76th Annual International Conference will be comprised of an in-person meeting in Montréal, Canada, April 12–16, 2023, followed by virtual sessions, September 20–22, 2023.
Struggles in the Concrete – Architecture, Architectural History and the Marxist Tradition
The conference aims to sample how the work of architectural historians, and contemporary architectural scholarship more broadly, relates to the analytical categories and concepts belonging to the Marxist tradition, and to open out new lines of research and theoretical enquiry.
Revisiting Corboz
Organised around four thematic fields, the conference looks at various issues and contexts that were relevant for Corboz – in particular for his contributions to the discourse on cities, territories and urbanised landscapes.
The History of Architectural History. Genesis and development of a scientific discipline between national perspectives and European models
The symposium will analyse the genesis and development of architectural historiography within the panorama of historical sciences, especially in relation to the history of art.
Acting Institutions. Agents, Actors, and Authorities in Modern Architecture (between the 1890s and 1930s)
Beyond the conventional agents, the conference emphasises the role of institutions, interest groups, and individual actors in their historical meaning of power networks.
Multiplicity: Agency, Constraint, and Freedom in Contemporary Architecture
“Multiplicity” investigates the forces that generate uncertainty and change in contemporary architecture by studying the vectors of agency, constraint, and freedom.
First Symposium on the Architecture of US Military Bases in Spain
The physical presence of the US Navy and Air Force on the Iberian Peninsula forever changed not only Spanish/American relations, but also deeply impacted Spain’s economy, infrastructure and culture.
Towards new summers: Past, present and future of holiday camps for children
The purpose of this international conference is to discuss the current research on the history of holiday camps in Europe between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular consideration of contemporary reuse and restoration strategies of this architectural heritage.
Reconstructed cities, cities under reconstruction
Taking as a starting point the cities of Brest and Dresden, whose histories reveal common trajectories, the project aims to offer a new perspective that updates the knowledge and historiography of urban history, particularly that of reconstruction.
The Architecture of Copies | Copies of Architecture
The confrerence aims to revisit the borders between the copy and the prototype, acts of imitation and of variation, and to examine the knowledge production and preservation processes involved in the act of architectural replication and other attendant phenomena.