Symposium: How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible? New York, 16 November 2019 The Architecture Exchange has organized a one-day symposium, How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible?, in which four architectural theorists (Peggy Deamer, Anthony Vidler,...
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EVENT: Study Days: Leonardo da Vinci, From the Libro di Pittura to the Trattato. Rome, 24-25 October 2019
Event: International Study Days: Leonardo da Vinci, From the Libro di Pittura to the Trattato. Rome, 24-25 October 2019 The Circulation, Transmission and Reception of Leonardo’s Ideas and Writings in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries The aim of the Study Days is...
SYPMPOSIUM: Building the Presence of the Prince. Utrecht, 8-9 November 2019
SYPMPOSIUM: Building the Presence of the Prince. Utrecht, 8-9 November 2019 Organized by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid (URJC), the Universiteit Utrecht (UU) and the Royal Netherlands Society of Architectural History (KNOB) Nowadays the rulers’ residences and...
EVENT: SAH Study Day: A New MoMA! New York, 1 November 2019
EVENT: SAH Study Day: A New MoMA! New York, 1 November 2019 This October, there will be a new MoMA. Stunning new galleries and spaces for performance and events will transform the Museum of Modern Art. Along with these physical changes, MoMA will be showing their...
CONFERENCE: Adaptive Re-Use – Strategies for Post-War Modernist Housing. Frankfurt, 11 October 2019
Conference: Adaptive Re-Use - Strategies for Post-War Modernist Housing. Frankfurt, 11 October 2019 In prosperous regions, housing markets are under significant pressure. With the focus on preserving land and developing brownfield sites, post-war housing estates are...
EXHIBITION: Cold War and Architecture. Vienna, 17 October 2019 – 24 February 2020
Exhibition: Cold War and Architecture. Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, 17 October 2019 – 24 February 2020 After the liberation of Austria in spring 1945 and the occupation by the four victorious powers of Great Britain, France, USA, and the Soviet Union, Vienna...
EVENT: Melnikov House: Saving an Avant-Garde Icon. 7-15 October 2019
Event: Melnikov House: Saving an Avant-Garde Icon. 7-15 October 2019 The Iconic Houses Lecture Series launched in 2014 in five cities in Europe to raise awareness about modern house museums and their frequent struggles to survive. The speakers are the directors of and...
SYMPOSIUM: Factory World: Architecture and Industrialization over Time and Space. London, 31 October 2019
Symposium: Factory World: Architecture and Industrialization over Time and Space. London, 31 October 2019 Organized by Mark Crinson and Claire Zimmerman This one-day symposium explores new research on factory architecture and images of factories between the Industrial...
CONFERENCE: Architecture and Bureaucracy: Entangled Sites of Knowledge Production and Exchange. Brussels, 30-31 October 2019
Conference: Architecture and Bureaucracy: Entangled Sites of Knowledge Production and Exchange. Brussels, 30-31 October 2019 The FWO-funded Scientific Research Network ‘Texts ≈ Buildings: Dissecting Transpositions in Architectural Knowledge (1880-1980)’ hosts the...
EVENT: Unorthodox: Architecture as Paradigm. New York, 26 September 2019
EVENT: Unorthodox: Architecture as Paradigm. New York, 26 September 2019 Preservation Lecture Series, a lecture by Teresa Stoppani What happens when architecture is dismantled and questioned, broken beyond a repair that nobody wants to perform anymore, so atomised...
EVENT: Symposium: Moscow x Detroit: Transnational Modernity in the Built Environment. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 11–12 October 2019
EVENT: Symposium: Moscow x Detroit: Transnational Modernity in the Built Environment. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 11–12 October 2019 Department of the History of Art, The University of Michigan University of Michigan Museum of Art and Horace H. Rackham...
CONFERENCE: On Power in Architecture #3. Ljubljana, 25-26 September 2019
Conference: On Power in Architecture #3. Ljubljana, 25-26 September 2019 A Psychoanalytical and Poststructuralist Perspective After focusing on the materialistic and the phenomenological philosophical perspective, the third and last edition of the symposia series On...