SWS Scholarly Society invites research contributions to the Arts & Humanities sessions of the 13th SWS Vienna ART conference: History of Art, Visual Arts, Architecture and Design, Digital Humanities, Museology & Heritage Studies. We welcome research on...

This issue gta papers invites intersectional critical examinations of how architectural toys are designed, produced, and marketed to reveal the cultural and political values through which different generations have learned to imagine and value space.

Clara, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in architecture dedicated to topics, research methods and tools specific to the field, is launching a call for papers for its Position(s) section, to be published in issue 14.

The session “Cities under Attack: Architecture, Infrastructure, and the Evolution of Urban Defence from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century,” which will take place at the 13th Congress of the Italian Association of Urban History (AISU), September 7-10, Genova, Italy, welcomes abstract proposals that investigate the genesis, evolution, and transformation of urban defence architectures and infrastructures from the twentieth century till today.

Organized by the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI), the conference explores architectural and design crossovers between Modern Italy and other countries from circa 1750 to the present. Papers can cover architectural and design cultures and their...

Taking place on December 7th, 2026, in Genève, Switzerland, the symposium explores the future of material-technological interventions in the humanitarian field. Through the research strand on camps and settlements, this event aims to examine how virtual and digital...

This University of Porto conference marks the 55th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. It explores changing ideas of heritage across art, architecture, history, museums, digital culture, tourism, sustainability and communities, bringing...

The Italian Association for Urban History (AISU) invites contributions for the Academic Sessions, Poster Session, Agora and other participation opportunities at the XIII Congress of AISU, The Wounded City. Urban Spaces as Sites of Conflicts, Life, and Memory, to be...

As part of the XIII Congress of AISU, The Wounded City. Urban Spaces as Sites of Conflicts, Life, and Memory, to be held in Genoa, Italy, from 7-10 September 2027, the session “Authoring Absence: Demolition, Forgetting, and the Wounds of the Contemporary City (20th-21st Centuries)” invites paper proposals by 18 October 2026.

A building is never the work of a single mind. Architectural production unfolds through the coordinated activity of many actors—designers, technicians, and administrators as well as things, technologies, and environments. The list goes on. Yet architectural culture...

The Heritage Institute at the University of Liverpool are pleased to announce a PGR Symposium on Colonial and Postcolonial Architectural History, to take place at the University of Liverpool on Wednesday, 9 December 2026. It is an excellent opportunity for...

The Modern City Mediated: Emotion, Space, Image is an interdisciplinary collection that explores how academics, researchers, artists, and practitioners— from fields such as art, architectural and urban history, sociology, semiotics, urban planning, media studies,...

Hosted by de Boekentoren, Ghent University Library, and the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University, in partnership with The Ruskin – Museum & Research Institute at Lancaster University, and the schools of architecture at the Universities of Lancaster, Edinburgh and Bologna, the event will take place at de Boekentoren, Ghent University Library, on March 3-5, 2027.

Chaired by Rebecca Carrai (KU Leuven) under the title “The Global Architecture of Fashion,” the DHS Affiliated Society panel at the 115th CAA Annual Conference will take place in New York, February 3-6, 2027.

Conference website: https://www.granadacongresos.com/culturayciudad The International Conference ‘Cultura y Ciudad’ [Culture and City], initiated in 2015, will celebrate its 6 th edition in 2027 under the theme Health, City, Architecture. The conference calls for...

Abstract submission deadline October 23, 2026 Conference website: https://www.granadacongresos.com/culturayciudad Conference abstracts will be presented either in Spanish or English, with a maximum extension of 500 words. Abstracts will be submitted through the...

Architecture today is increasingly shaped by market pressures, process optimization, speed, and various production demands which often overshadow its broader cultural and critical role. Rather than exploring alternative social and spatial forms, the discipline is...

Under the title "Contemporary Construction Sites as Postcolonial Infrastructure: Preliminary Inquiries", this issue proposes un certain regard for the construction site, approaching it as an object of inquiry rather than merely the stage following the project before...

The home – be it skin, a carpet, a shadow, a hut, a shelter or a fortress – is the place where the idea of the world manifests itself: the idea of belonging to the world or claiming possession of a part of it. Homes, like islands or lifeboats in a seething sea, form...

Revista de História da Arte (RHA) is an open-access art history journal, published online twice a year, by the Instituto de História da Arte of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The journal publishes multi- and cross-disciplinary academic articles that address and...

If the first two issues of this trilogy on housing approached their subject from self-contained scales—the domestic unit and its relationship with ways of inhabiting; collective housing and its relationship with urban form—this third issue proposes to linger in the...

COTAA #3 invites researchers, practitioners, historians, theorists, educators, doctoral researchers, artists, and independent scholars to contribute to this ongoing conversation. We welcome theoretical, historical, methodological, and practice-based contributions that...

Exhibitions occupy a distinctive position in the history of architectural education. Although they are generally regarded as instruments of communication, dissemination, or public presentation, they have often played a far more significant role in shaping pedagogical...

The issue "Constructing Churches in Concrete Ecclesiastical Architecture in and around Post-war Rome" addresses post-war ecclesiastical architecture in Rome as a crucial site of architectural, structural, and urban experimentation between the 1950s and the 1970s. In...

Scholars of urban design are invited to present their work at the fourth Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory, entitled ‘Beyond Repair: Extended Histories and Theories of Urban Design’ which will be held at the University of Sheffield on 15-18 September 2027....

Guest editors: Carlos A. Segura y Richard Gerald—Rondón Institutions are inevitable conventions. They classify, create temporalities, remember and forget precedents, and authorize or censor narratives. They capture the shifting features of reality in order to serve...

The word 'heirloom' evokes objects tucked away in wardrobes, imbued with woody, musty fragrance, aged with patina and eerie silence – rescued, retained, preserved, and remembered. Their fate remains unpredictable: second-hand stores, antique shops, auction houses,...

What is the domestic? Modernity closely bound this concept to the house, and especially to bourgeois housing. So-called private life emerged from a historical reconfiguration of the divisions between the public and the private, and the dwelling consequently became one...

www.facesmagazine.ch “Creating does not mean deforming or inventing people and things. It means forging new relationships between existing people and things.” This quotation by Robert Bresson encapsulates the approach of FACES no. 88, devoted to the theme of working...

(...) women play almost no part in making decisions about or in creating the environment. It is a man-made environment. (Matrix Architects, Making space. Women and the man-made environment. London, Pluto Press, 1984, p. 3) More than four decades after this statement,...

Date: 14 November 2026 Convenors: Elizabeth McKellar (SAHGB), Manolo Guerci (University of Kent), Kyle Leyden (Courtauld Institute) This third symposium in memory of Mark Girouard looks at women’s contributions to architectural history in Britain and Ireland. There...

What is the current, emerging research in architecture, design and urbanism across the African continent? Which lessons can other global cultures learn from what is being envisioned and tested in Africa today? What further insights emerge when these questions are...

Date: September 25, 2026 (virtual) Proposal Deadline: June 10, 2026 Link to CFP: https://sahhistoricinteriorsaffiliategroup.sah.hcommons.org/2026/05/12/call-for-papers-no-fixed-abode-histories-of-the-mobile-and-itinerant-interior/ The Historic Interiors Group (HIG),...

The international symposium Mapping Architectural Integration (1960–2000) aims to critically examine architectural approaches, projects, and debates in which the sensitive and contextual integration of contemporary architecture into historic cities emerged as a...

A+I Working Paper Series, Issue #03 | Guest Editor: Jingliang Du Abstract Deadline (300 words): 8 June 2026 This issue invites contributions that examine how architectural labour organised, mediated, and contested colonial and imperial power, with a focus on East...

Intelligent Archives invites researchers and practitioners to rethink the role of the archive in the age of Generative AI. AI systems rely on the cataloguing, structuring, and processing of large amounts of data. As a result, archives and preservation practices can no...

At a time of fundamental social and political upheaval, when the emancipatory impulses of the revolutions in the United States and France were making themselves felt across the world, architecture around 1800 turned back to the canon of classical forms. This apparent...

Society of Architectural Historians 2027 Annual International Conference April 14-18 in Chicago, Illinois (USA) Session: Indigenous Knowledge, Architecture and Resistance in the Arctic Processes of militarization, urbanization, and modernization accelerated...

Edited by Maia Adele Simon and Hana Nikčević Thresholds, the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture and published by the MIT Press, is now accepting submissions for Thresholds 55: Property. Submission deadline: June 1, 2026....

The Jaap Bakema Study Centre is seeking contributions to its 13th annual conference through this call for papers. (IM)MATERIAL explores the state of architectural memory in the post-digital age. The event will be held at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built...

All architectural workers know it. That feeling you get behind your eyes after staring at Revit or Rhino for too long. Working overtime with computer fans raging against the digital entities you manipulate, themselves shadows of the information shared on some shadowy...

The Italian Association for Urban History and the Genoa Congress The Italian Association for Urban History is one of the leading European scholarly associations devoted to the study of urban history in all its dimensions. Since its foundation in 2001, it has promoted...

FILARCH 2026 is an international conference organized this year by the Architectural Association Design Research Lab and the Department of Architecture, University of Patras and hosted at the Architectural Association in London, on 19–21 November 2026. Originally...

Review editors Nicola Campri Claudia Mainardi Luigi Mandraccio Any experience regarding reality is grounded on what has already happened. Reviewing is a primary cognitive and critical process, which structures our relationship with real world through a retrospective...

Thirty years after the proclamation of Bigness, a vision of architecture conceived as a scalar device of urban power, we are now in a position to critically reassess its ambitions and limitations. That moment in architectural discourse, fueled by a strong confidence...

Guest editors: Alejandro Aravena, Michela Bassanelli, Agim Kërçuku, Matteo Poli From the middle of the afternoon, after the violent tremors and rumbling pushing up from deep in the earth, the Tohoku area and its vicinity was cut off from everything. It was then that...

Session Chairs: Sofia Nannini, Politecnico di Torino and Víctor Muñoz Sanz, TU Delft With origins in mid-nineteenth-century France, the scientific discipline of zootechnics transformed animal husbandry into an industrial practice. Merging veterinary science, genetics,...

Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino September 9–11, 2026 Call for applications The Castello del Valentino Dialogues is a platform that aims at creating a dynamic forum for crafting alternative ways of thinking, exploring and writing the urban....

Edited by Maia Adele Simon and Hana Nikčević Thresholds, the annual peer-reviewd journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture and published by the MIT Press, is now accepting submissions for Thresholds 55: Property. Submission deadline: May 1, 2026....

CALL FOR PAPER From monumental institutions to infrastructures, from domestic interiors to objects, the built environment has consistently operated as a medium through which power materializes in space. Architecture is never neutral: it structures hierarchies,...

International conference in History of architecture organized by SAFIR Institute and the Department of Art History and Archeology, Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, 28 October 2026 A fleeting view from the multiple lanes of a motorway into Abu Dhabi’s or Dubai’s urban...

EDITORS Nuno Grande, Nuno Correia, Paula del Río “Ground floor” is an architectural concept that synthesises two spatial relationships: one with the soil; the other with the collective, the common. Through the ground floor, a building is tied to the earth and a...

Mini Symposia explores novel experimental topics that extend the general conference themes. Each mini symposia is formulated by expert researchers and gathers key contributions on the symposia theme in up to 4 sub-sessions of up to 6 speakers. All interested authors...

Join our Estonian Academy of Arts team as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow! Estonian Academy of Arts invites young and talented researchers to express their interest in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship programme (MSCA PF), which provides funding for...

5-6 October 2026 2026 Theme: «Methods of Engagement» Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta) Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, Zurich Switzerland The gta institute of the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich invites doctoral students to...

Two months after the ‘truce’ between Hamas and the Israeli government, the debris of Gaza continues to confront us (and every day new wars and new disasters add to the pile). In this issue we propose to treat it as a historiographical node, focusing not so much on the...

Transsylvania Nostra Journal invites the submission of articles for the 2026 issues. We welcome original research papers addressing the following thematic areas: 2026/1 – Central Squares and Urban Heritage In European cities, the central square has traditionally been...

As far as we know, it was Leon Battista Alberti who first set down in writing the reciprocal analogy between house and city. Writing in the mid-15th century—at a time when cities were believed to grow according to principles of natural law—he proposed the phrase now...

In the decades following the Second World War, coal developed from an extracted energy source to a multi- dimensional modernist project. Across Europe, as nations rebuilt after the conflict, coal mining became the epicentre of technological optimism, democratic...

The African Architectural and Urban History Network (AFRAUHN) in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Nairobi will be holding a major international conference from 8th–10th September 2026:...

The International Conference on Architecture & Interior Design (ICAD) is a biennial conference series, started in 2018, and hosted by Tishk International University in Erbil, Iraq. This year, the 5th edition of ICAD is jointly organized by Tishk International...

Does architecture create landscape? Is architecture a vector of landscape transformation? The relationship between architecture and landscape is both recent and as old as architecture itself. On the one hand, strictly speaking, since landscape is a modern reality, any...

The Department of Architecture (Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Heverlee Campus, KU Leuven) has vacancies for two postdoctoral researchers (1.0 FTE 36 months) for the ERC-funded project: URBAN-DELTA: Metropolises in the Mud. Innovation in Delta Building Technology in...

Clara and guest editors Eliyahu Keller and Uri Wegman are happy to launch a new call for papers on the theme “Uncertainties" for issue 14, to be published in early 2028. In 1927, Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle challenged the deterministic foundations of...

Learnings/Unlearnings: Environmental learning, spatial design, and participatory pedagogies within institutions and beyond Dates: 3–5 September 2026 | Location: London, UK This conference, developed in collaboration between the London School of Architecture, KTH Royal...

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...