gd:c Summer School 2026 organised by Clemens Finkelstein - Susanne Quitmann - Aliena Guggenberger — Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect Munich, Germany – 20–24 July 2026 Applications due: 1 March 2026 The Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect...

CHS Annual Conference in collaboration with Cambridge Faculty of Architecture Queens’ College, Cambridge, Friday 25 - Sunday 27 September 2026 The aim of this year's Annual Construction History Society Conference from the 25-27 September 2026 is to explore the history...

In 2019, the International Art Exhibition of Venice, directed by Ralph Rugoff, was titled May You Live in Interesting Times. The phrase has an uncertain origin and is likely the result of a misunderstanding that renders it ambiguous, as it may also be interpreted as a...

The AHRA PhD Symposium 2026 takes place on 29 and 30 June. The symposium is held in a hybrid-format in Sétif (Algeria), Norwich University of Arts (Britain) and TU Delft (The Netherlands). Deadline: 15 March 2026 Symposium theme Research in the architectural...

Guest editors: Antonio Cantero & Stefano Corbo Submission deadline: April 27 2026. Publication date: August 2026 More info: link Materia Arquitectura 30 invites us to explore how human, non-human and post-human patterns of occupation shape the more-than-human...

Online conference, January 26-27, 2027, organized by the “Art, Environment, Ecology” Research Group, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich Modernist architectural discourse and historiography have long established concrete as a rational, efficient, and hygienic...

Issue 05 of 4A Journal is dedicated to the relationship between architectural design and the space of the mise-en-scène, understood both as a site of traditional representation (theatre, cinema, television) and in a broader sense, encompassing retail environments,...

Enabling Boundaries: Rethinking Spatial Categories, Epistemic Challenges, and Transformative Design Practices School of Architecture, Jade University of Applied Sciences, Oldenburg, Germany, June 5, 2026 Deadline: March 6, 2026 Symposium Theme: Urban planning and...

We live in a global ecosystem marked by interconnected challenges, including climate change, social inequalities, urban transformations, health emergencies, digital transitions, and crises of care and living. These are complex problems with multiple interdependent...

Since the fall of European empires, the metanarratives of modernity in architecture and its assumed progressive, liberal value systems have been profoundly questioned by post and de-colonial critiques. Today, modernity and modernism, once (within specific geopolitical...

The Global Neoclassicism Project Online Symposium: Neoclassicism in the Extended Field: A Global Project 28-30 May 2026 Co-chaired by: Faraz Olfat - PhD candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Rebecca Yuste - PhD candidate, Department of Art...

This conference invites proposals examining how modernist architecture in the Mediterranean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Global South is being re-evaluated and reinterpreted in response to contemporary ecological, political, and cultural challenges. Focusing on...

International Conference, Zurich, 2-4 September 2026 The term ‘character’ is part of today’s vocabulary of architecture: we casually refer to the ‘character’ of specific buildings or landscapes, and the ‘characteristics’ of projects or historical city centres, to...

The Lessons of Rome aim to propose a space for reflection for anyone who grasps Italy as an architectural, urban, and landscape research laboratory. Defining Italy as a laboratory involves analyzing contexts of urban policies but also as design experiences, theories,...

It is a widely shared diagnosis that translocal connectivity and interdependence of events and processes are defining characteristics of the present. Beyond the development of increasingly powerful infrastructures for the transport of goods and data – which have led...

Beyond their pedagogical functions, school buildings have long served as discrete instruments of cultural and ideological articulation. Domesticity, so far little explored in contrast to other approaches, offers a way to examine how educational architecture unsettles...

If taken literally, housing is the origin myth of architecture. If less so, we might say that it is in housing where the discipline has found one of its most persistent questions: the relationship between space and ways of life, between production and reproduction....

The 8th edition of the Frascari Symposium turns the focus from architecture to the architect. The profession’s figure, often idealized as a singular creative genius, has always been shaped by shifting pedagogies, ideologies, and material conditions. Today, as new...

On the most general level, we suggest that caring be viewed as a species activity that includes everything we do to maintain, continue, and repair our world so we can live as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, our selves, and our environment, all of...

The International Study Days organized by LIAT and EVCAU, will take place on May 20 and 21, 2026, at ENSA Paris-Val de Seine, Université Paris Cité, and ENSA Paris-Malaquais - PSL. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Architecture and infrastructures are inhabited by specters, which...

The proposed reflection focuses this time on the why rather than the how: not so much, or not only, on the tools and teaching methods that structure architectural design education, but rather on the objectives for which those same methods are conceived and those tools...

Clara and guest editors Jolein Bergers, Nadia Casabella, Seth Denizen, and Ananda Kohlbrenner are launching a call for papers for the thematic section "Architecture has a soil problem" of issue 13, to be published in 2027. Architecture has a soil problem. Not only...

Architects have always created or borrowed practical, conceptual, and discursive means to imagine, communicate, and achieve their work. Such means are neither neutral, nor are they mere technicalities. From the draftsman's pencil and the ephemeral logic of formwork to...

Special Issue: Reimagining Islamic Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries Thematic volume planned for July 2028 Guest Editors: Emily Neumeier & Jennifer Pruitt Proposal submission deadline: 15 December 2025 We invite submissions for this special issue of the...

The theme for the 15th annual conference of the All-Ireland Architecture Research Group (AIARG) invites discussion on how architecture, and the practices that surround it, engage with the challenge of reconceiving the terrestrial. Our title derives from the French...

What builds a city is more than materials meant to cross time. Since its origins, the permanent city has always been overlaid with ephemeral layers that interrupt and reshape the everyday use of streets, squares and buildings. Festivals, religious processions,...

Clara launches a call for papers for its Archives and Position(s) sections, to be published in issue 13. Clara is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in architecture dedicated to topics, research methods and tools specific to the field. Each issue comprises a main...

International Symposium, Round Tables and Lecture Series December 2025- May 2026 Curated by Lina Malfona, polit(t)ico research lab This call for proposals invites reflections on the interplay between invention and creativity, science and architecture. Inspired by the...

Place: Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain + Online Format: A mix of live, pre-recorded, and in person (at scale that’s allowed) presentations and social interaction spaces. Dates: 14-15 May 2026 -------- SPECIAL FOCUS: From the Home to the City: Designing Spatial...

Demolitions have often been framed in architectural history as spectacular narrative moments: the implosions of large-scale buildings, the clearing of “obsolete” modernist icons, or the large-scale operations of urban renewal, including infamous domicides, urbicides...

Footprint, the open access Delft Architecture Theory Journal, is now welcoming abstracts on Conditions of Architecture. Footprint 40 (edited by Alina Paias and Catherine Koekoek) explores the theoretical and practical implications of situating architecture within its...

EAUH 2026 Conference - CFP City Networks in Europe and Beyond Barcelona, September 2-5, 2026 Session 83 (Main Session): “Urban Healthcare Architecture: Networks and Exchanges in the 20th Century” We are calling for papers for our session: “Urban Healthcare...

Co-organisers Elizabeth J. Petcu and Maurice Saß Confirmed double session for the Association for Art History Conference 8-10 April 2026 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Ecocriticism—that is, critical approaches to understanding the interconnection of...

Middle East Technical University Graduate Program in Architectural History organizes a series of symposiums bi-annually, open to graduate students and researchers who have recently completed their Ph.D. studies. The fourteenth meeting of the symposium series will take...

Performing Archeology: Excavations as a Display Project Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève (HES-SO), Geneva 8–9 December 2025 This event seeks to explore the ways in which performative approaches to archaeology open up new spaces for reflection and...

CFA: Session: “Beyond Transcendence. Understanding Networks of Religious Belonging between Local Urban Parishes and Global Institutions since the Turn of the 20th Century”. European Association for Urban History (EAUH) Conference “City Networks in Europe and Beyond”,...

Anachronism, according to encyclopedias, is an error. For historians, argued Manfredo Tafuri paraphrasing Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, it is something worse: a mortal sin (Bloch 1949: 176; Febvre 1947: 15; Tafuri 1984: 64). More recently, Georges Didi-Huberman and...

The Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève explores the role of interior spaces in shaping contemporaneity. To that extent, it organizes a series of reflections and interventions that aim to learn, question and visibilize how interiors play a key role in...

Session organised at EAUH 2026 by Nele De Raedt (UCLouvain), Merlijn Hurx (KU Leuven) and Jaap-Evert Abrahamse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Deadline for applications: 22.10.2025 Water management is a central issue in urban governance. Both an essential resource for...

OVERVIEW Recent scholarship in the environmental and energy humanities has called attention to regimes of energy transition. The discussion on futures "after oil" marks a shift from earlier studies of oil assemblages, which evolved from analyses of coal-based fossil...

Date: 15 August -15 September 2025 Location: London, UK When interior decoration professionalized in urban centers throughout the world in the nineteenth century, new businesses ranging in scale from family furniture firms in Damascus to department stores in...

November 27–28, 2025 | Politecnico di Milano – Mantova Campus Curated by Elisa Boeri and Luca Cardani (Department ABC, Politecnico di Milano) In the history of places of care, architecture holds a decisive and deeply symbolic value. It was the physical container in...

International Conference Politecnico di Milano, December 2-3, 2025 organized by Chiara Baglione (Politecnico di Milano) and Fabio Marino (Politecnico di Milano) Communicating architecture to a non-specialist audience means not only interpreting and clarifying complex...

“Antillean art,” remarked St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, “is this restoration of our shattered histories, our shards of vocabulary, our archipelago becoming a synonym for pieces broken off from the original...

Michel Foucault, in La volonté de savoir (1976), described how the mechanisms of the examination of conscience belonging to the pastoral tradition of the 17th century progressively extended to all areas of society, marking the threshold of a biopolitical modernity....

As climate disruption and ecological crises increasingly reshape planning policies, the design disciplines—architecture, urbanism, and landscape—are being called upon to reinvent themselves (Younès, 1999; Bognon, 2022; Rode, 2023). Yet the contours of this...

Coined by Thomas More in 1516, utopia holds a telling ambiguity: it means “no place” (ou-topos) but is sufficiently close to “good place” (eu-topos). Since then, the concept has oscillated between aspiration and critique—between imagining radical alternatives and...

Organizers: Irene Cheng, James Graham, Andrew Herscher, Diana Martinez Attention to material has become almost ubiquitous in recent architectural history, both extending and revising a modernist tradition of interest in material innovation and expression. Whether...

CIVICNESS: ARCHITECTURE AND THE POLITICS OF THE PUBLIC REALM Guest editors: Anna Livia Friel & Agustina Labarca Gatica The term character in architecture has long been contested. During the 17th century, it was defined as rational manifestation of a building’s...

Palm leaves loosely thatched create a bushy screen wall. The screen is part of a large building designed to shelter the pieces of other plants and make them dry out quickly. They are tobacco leaves, hanging from the rafters in neat rows swaying in the breeze. Nearby,...

The RIVELAZIONI international conference invites contributions that engage critically with spaces of marginalization, confinement, and invisibility – places that are physically or symbolically denied within contemporary society. These may include prisons, detention...

International conference: gta Institute (ETH Zurich) and CDHM (Geneva Graduate Institute). Organised by Andreas Kalpakci, Charlotte Rottiers, and Davide Rodogno Diplomatic interiors have long shaped how foreign relations are conducted. From ambassadorial residencies...

International Conference Organized by: MAIA, Master of Arts in Interior Architecture, HEAD – Genève (HES-SO) Scientific Committee: Javier Fernández Contreras, Youri Kravtchenko Date: 17 November 2025 Location: HEAD – Genève, Avenue de Châtelaine 7; 1203 Geneva The...

The congress, Mexico and Spain: Five Centuries of Architecture for a Shared History/México y España. Cinco siglos de arquitectura para una historia en común, will take place in Seville at the end of October 2026. More information related to the call for papers in...

Sasha (ULB) and ACTE (ULiège) research groups are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the conference “The Neglected Times of Architecture” to be held in Brussels on March 17 and 18, 2026. The framework of the conference, along with practical information, can...

The University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Eleonore Marantz) and the ENSA Paris-La Villette (Sophie Descat, Catherine Maumi) organize an international conference on "Frank Lloyd Wright's legacy in France: transmissions, appropriations, hybridizations", which will take...

16th 4T DESIGN AND DESIGN HISTORY SYMPOSIUM On the Move: Objects/Images/Spaces 6-7 November 2025 Extended Deadline for Abstracts: 30 June 2025 Venue: The symposium will be hosted by Dokuz Eylül University (DEU) Faculty of Fine Arts in Dokuz Eylül Continuing Education...

Session at Society of Architectural Historians Conference 2026 (Mexico City, 15-19 Apr 26) SAH, Mexico City, Apr 15–19, 2026 Deadline: Jun 5, 2025 www.sah.org/2026 We invite paper proposals for the session: Women, Welfare, Labour: The Architecture of Philanthropy ...

36.2 Spatial Practices of Transnational Care Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand invites papers for a special issue (Vol. 36 No. 2) on the theme of “Spatial Practices of Transnational Care”, edited by...

Abstracts are now being accepted for the 19th International Docomomo Conference, taking place March 17-22, 2026 in Los Angeles. Docomomo International invites practitioners, educators, researchers, and scholars involved in the documentation, conservation, and...

JOELHO 17, “Co-Operative Housing” EDITORS: João Mendes Ribeiro, Nuno Correia, Nuno Travasso In the next issue of JOELHO we will address topics related with contemporary forms of housing. We use the expression “Co-Operative” both in the sense of alternative ways of...

The Second Annual Mark Girouard Symposium 15 November 2025 - The Courtauld Institute of Art, London The Second Annual Mark Girouard Symposium 15 November 2025 - The Courtauld Institute of Art, London Organised by Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain,...

Heritage Making in the Eastern Mediterranean Session at the Society of Architectural Historians Meeting, Mexico City, April 15–19, 2026 Deadline: Jun 5, 2025 Heritage making, previously masked by the guise of historic preservation and perceived as a technical...

The ATI2026 Conference hosted by Yaşar University, İzmir (Türkiye), addresses the use of innovative technologies in architectural design and education through the themes and topics listed below. PRODUCTION This theme encompasses topics related to the innovative...

Farming Architecture Beyond the Farm Session at Society of Architectural Historians Conference 2026 (Mexico City, 15-19 Apr 26) SAH, Mexico City, Apr 15–19, 2026 Deadline: Jun 5, 2025 www.sah.org/2026 We invite paper proposals for the session Farming Architecture...

Synergies: Building Collaborations in Architectural Research Guest Editors: Urs Hirschberg, Sophia Meeres, Milena Stavrić A defining feature of architecture is its multidisciplinary nature—whether in design, practice, or research. In architectural design, many...

The 1970s, also known as the decade of “development,” witnessed not only an unprecedented flow of capital to the Global South but also a steady stream of technical specialists and advisors. Western-educated architects and engineers were contracted by the Ministries of...

“WATERLINES” Research, Projects and Visions for the Connection between Cities and Waterfronts International Conference Ancona, September 5–6, 2025 The international conference WATERLINES. Research, Projects and Visions for the Connection between Cities and...

What stories do abandoned buildings still hold? Can they be transformed to serve new purposes without losing their essence? How can architects balance history and innovation? This conference delves into the art and challenge of adaptive reuse, where past and present...

The aim of this editorial initiative, promoted by the research project Retranslates1 and the Department of Architecture and Design at the Politecnico di Torino, is to develop a historical and critical investigation into the network of exchanges and mutual influences...

Women’s History Today: the Journal of the Women’s History Network is seeking expressions of interest for articles to be included in a Special Issue focused on tracing the education and career paths of women in the professions of the built environment with a special...

HIG Emerging Scholars Symposium The Society of Architectural Historians Historic Interiors Group (HIG), in collaboration with Virginia Commonwealth University, is seeking proposals for its 5th Annual Emerging Scholars Symposium, If These Walls Could Talk: Fiction,...

The Jaap Bakema Study Centre has announced a call for papers for its annual conference, to be held on 26 and 27 November. This year’s conference, entitled Networks of (Ex)Change, is being organised in collaboration with the gta Archive of the ETH Zürich and focuses on...

Convenors: Elif Kaymaz (Middle East Technical University), Caner Arıkboğa (Middle East Technical University) Military architecture is a spatial paradox—designed for permanence yet subject to decay, built for impenetrability yet frequently abandoned, and if in use,...

Art can serve as the foundation and purpose for research, providing motivation, context, and methodologies. This approach is often defined as Artistic Research (AR), and its goal is to articulate a framework that positions art both as an object of study and as well as...