Rethinking our disciplines in terms of time and not just space is a challenge that concerns all scales (buildings, cities, landscapes, territories). The magnitude of the challenge calls for openness to other disciplines: history, the arts, philosophy, economics, literature, sociology, and anthropology. Given the scale of the problem, don’t we need to look at things from different angles, and fundamentally reconsider the way in which time shapes space?

“Miserabilia” investigates spaces and spectres of misery in the imagination and reality of the contemporary Italian urban context. The main objective is the definition of tools for the recognition and investigation of the tangible and intangible manifestations of misery and the development of methods and languages to narrate and design it.

This edited volume aims to explore the multifaceted impacts of the transition from oil-driven economies and landscapes to post-oil paradigms, focusing on urban transformations, resilience strategies, and the preservation and reinterpretation of oil heritage. 

The organizers invite researchers in architecture––practitioners and academics, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers––to reflect upon their own quest for truth in their research, as well as on what the true nature of research in architecture could be.

By examining detail through the lens of ethics, this issue invites contributions that might help deconstruct the separation between design and construction.

The call focuses on places of culture, i.e. places built to boost new ideas, nurture doubts, dreams, and today’s utopias that will be tomorrow’s reality and strengthen the sense of belonging to a community. 

The organizers invite proposals that reflect upon the many possible interpretations of islands in architectural history: how islands have influenced the production and reception of architecture, and how architecture has contributed to the formation and transformation of island cultures, identities, and environments.

The Society of Architectural Historians invites those interested in the history of the built environment to submit a session proposal for its virtual conference—SAH Virtual 2024—that will be held from Thursday, September 19, to Saturday, September 21, 2024.