This project is developed around the study of the architectural typologies of the three main monotheistic religions and proposes to analyze the exchanges, contaminations, adoption of ancient prototypes and the painful and sacrilegious processes of adaptation to the new cult.
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Learning from the Pandemic: Leveraging Architectural Education Toward Equity, Health, and Resilience
In this session, Deans of five Schools of Architecture across the United States will respond to a range of timely questions for architectural education provoked by the simultaneous epidemics of COVID-19, racism and racial inequity, and climate change.
Triennale di Milano: Kenzo Tange. Gli anni della rivoluzione formale 1940/1970
A presentation of the book
Illegal or Secret? On France’s Classification of Declassified Archives
Samia Henni examines the premises and intentions of this law and explores ways to expose this institutionalized controversy.
Launch of Attention: The Audio Journal for Architecture, no.6
Community is a Practice, guest-edited by Anna Goodman of Portland State University, addresses the rich and complex history of community design in the United States in the 1960s.
Webinar: “On Pedagogy: Islamic Art and Architecture in the Classroom,” International Journal of Islamic Architecture Dialogues Series
A virtual discussion (via Zoom) on a number of pressing issues surrounding the teaching of Islamic art in a wide range of classroom settings.
Architectural History and Theory Seminar Series at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Each year, the Architectural History & Theory – MSc programme at the University of Edinburgh welcomes around ten guest speakers and colleagues to present an evening seminar on their research.
Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-century Iran
Using Iran as an example, Dr Ali Mozaffari will draw upon case studies to demonstrate how architecture became a conduit for the production of heritage at large in a modernizing Muslim society.
Genealogy of Urban Design Network Seminar: Contextualism, Collage City and Beyond
This initial seminar will investigate Colin Rowe’s mid-twentieth century role in appropriating Sitte’s 1890’s reaction to Von Forster’s 1860 imperial design for the Vienna Ringstrasse.
Spanish National Meeting: Women and Architecture. Towards an egalitarian profession
Current feminist practices led by women architects will be presented, as well as critical pedagogies that question the traditional and patriarchal way of educating new generations of architects.
EAHN Building Word Image Group: Actors at the Margins
Online Seminar Series, October - December 2021 A series of dialogues, initiated by the EAHN Group Building Word Image, shedding light on groups or individuals acting at and from the margins of the realm of architecture. Through these seminars, through multivocal and...
Edinburgh School of Architecture Architectural History & Theory Seminar Series
The events are a fantastic opportunity to hear about the latest work in the field from scholars working across the globe.