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...

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...