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Special Issue: Environment in Architecture’s History and Architecture in Environment’s History
International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) Guest editor: Esra Akcan Thematic volume planned for: 2027 Abstract submission deadline: June 1, 2025 One may misleadingly infer from the data on the built environment’s responsibility in causing climate change that...
Strand Call: Heritage and Culture. Part of the Livable Cities Series.
Conference One: LISBON Lisbon, the capital of Portugal has increasingly become a ‘mecca’ for European expats wishing to relocate. Attracted by sun, beaches, food, culture and history, it has been ranked as the world’s third most livable city for foreigners. The home...
Rencontres Jean-Louis Cohen Legacy and Perspectives
By the scope of his work and commitments, Jean-Louis Cohen has had a profound impact on the history of architecture and urban planning, not only in France but throughout the world. As a historian of architectural modernity, he has endeavored to study main figures, as...
Professor of Practice in the Arts (Associate or Full) – Architectural Design/Theory
Description The Department of Art History at the University of Chicago invites applications for a position as Professor of Practice in the Arts (Associate or Full) in Architectural Design/Theory and related areas. The expected start date of the position is July 1,...
Journal of Architecture’s “Offbeat / Off-beam” feature
“Offbeat / Off-beam” We invite paper submissions for our new feature that critically profiles objects, people, events or other phenomena that have hitherto been misunderstood, undervalued, or overlooked in architectural discourse. Papers might centre on vulnerable or...
Assistant Professor in Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark
The Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology at Aarhus University has a pronounced international profile and a robust research network. In the Aesthetics and Culture section, the research is interdisciplinary and often collaborative at a...
III Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes Congress (Lisbon, 11-13 February 2026)
The third edition of the Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes Congress will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, from 11-13 February 2026. The conference will intersect the topics of Architecture, Colonialism and Labour. Although a...
Lecturer, Ph.D. Position/Assistantship, and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Urban Studies
Urban Studies at the University of Basel is rooted in disciplinary approaches of architecture, geography, anthropology, social and political theory, and history, and oriented towards global Southern and postcolonial questions. With a regional focus on Africa, Europe,...
A Question of Time. In Search of Temporal Strategies for an Architecture of Transition
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?
Latrobe Chapter Symposium: The Architecture of Food
Fourteenth Biennial Symposium COHOSTED BY THE LATROBE CHAPTER SAH & D.C. PRESERVATION LEAGUE
Governing and Building the City (1200-1600): Mirrors-for-Magistrates as a lieu for theoretical reflection on architecture
Your main assignment will be to participate in the research project, carrying out a PhD thesis within the field of history, theory and criticism of architecture under the supervision of the PI, prof. Nele De Raedt.
On the Traces of Misery
“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.