The contributions of this conference attempt to link their concrete architectural case studies of buildings, ensembles and urbanist projects with reflections on the influences of and transactions between locals and foreigners, colonials and colonised, and their changing allegiances, even across changing political powers.
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The Gift of Architecture: Spaces of Global Socialism and their Afterlives
By focusing on their continuous appropriation by inhabitants and users in Africa and Asia, this conference and the resulting publication will offer a more differentiated genealogy of global urbanisation and its architecture.
The garden, its pavilions and aviaries
L’art des jardins dans les civilisations de l’Europe et de l’Asie orientale
Alpine Landscapes in Transformation: Infrastructure, Culture, and Climate
Located at the crossroads of Europe, the transformations of the fragile Alpine environment need to be questioned.
Acting Institutions: Agents, Actors, and Authorities in Modern Architecture (between the 1890s and 1930s)
The objective of this conference is to expand the field of architectural historiography by adding largely under-represented institutional actors as well as their agencies and practices to the common narratives of modern architecture.
Australasia and the Global Turn in Architectural History
A symposium exploring the expansion of the new edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture that encompass Australasia.
Architecture and Real Estate: Historical Perspectives
This international conference proposes to discuss the processes and products of real estate development by foregrounding them as objects of architectural and urban history.
International Expositions: Looking to the Past, Seeing the Future
The symposium has range of speakers from Australia to Argentina with topics from Environment to Empire.
Using What We Have: Architectural Histories of Fragments, Ruins, Rationed Resources and Obsolete Spaces
Organised into two sessions, the morning session addresses historic traditions and the afternoon examines current theoretical and practical approaches informed by architectural history research.
Document Fever: Encounters with the architecture of the *colonial architecture archive
This symposium adds to the work on *colonial networks of planning consultants since the 2000s and specifically to the work from critical studies and the social sciences developed in the 2010s on *colonial exchanges between Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, US, UK, Nigeria, South Africa, Singapore, The Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Ghana, Germany, Poland, Romania, and Belgium.
A Dialogue of the Arts: Concepts of Sacred Spaces in Architecture and its Description in Literature from Early Modern Times to the Present
The aim of the 6th International Conference is to question phenomena “which lie between these poles” of sacred and profane space, and this by relying on literature of different languages from early modern period to the present.
Fortification and sovereign powers (1180-1340): Fortified architecture and territorial control in the 13th century
This international conference aims to compare the latest research in the field in order to understand the similarities of these sovereign administrative and architectural policies across Europe.