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The Power of Sources in Architecture Research and Practice
The 8th Forum of Architectural Science will examine the power of sources in thematic aspects of Agency and Politics, Canon and Episteme, Materiality and Mediality, and Reception and Production.
How ‘Byzantine’ was the Eighteenth century? New insights on the Christian Orthodox art and architecture of the late Ottoman Empire
This session seeks papers that investigate the evolution of the artistic and architectural expression of Eastern Orthodoxy in the long eighteenth century.
The View from the Car: Autopia as a New Perceptual Regime
The view from the car changed architecture fundamentally. The exhibition aims to render explicit the impact of the car on the way we perceive architecture and the city.
Maintaining the Presence of the Prince: Management of Royal Geographies (XIVth-XIXth Centuries)
Following on the conference “Building the Presence of the Prince” held in Utrecht in November of 2019, this international symposium aims to reunite experts from different historiographical fields (History, Art History, Architectural History and Political Thought), with the objective of developing a comparative analysis on the way royal spaces were maintained from a transnational and diachronic (14th–19th century) perspective.
Knowledge, Interpretations and Dissemination: Circulations in Mediterranean Architectural Culture between XVII and XVIII Centuries
This conference aims to investigate the circulation, dissemination, and appropriation of architectural novelties of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, placing relations with Italy at the centre of attention and broadening the gaze over the entire Mediterranean.
Re-Conceiving an Ancient Wonder: The Afterlife of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, 1500-1850.
The Mausoleum’s invisibility entails that it is not the monument itself that will be investigated here, but rather the ensemble of texts, images and architectural projects referring to this central but unknowable model.
Getty Conservation Guest Scholars
The Conservation Guest Scholars Program provides an opportunity for professionals to pursue research on topics that bring new knowledge and fresh perspectives to the field of conservation.
Architectural Training and Research in the Foreign Aid-Funded Knowledge Economy 1950s-1980s
The various North-South exchanges that took place in the name of ‘development’ have left a deep imprint on the geopolitical landscape of postcolonial Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Pioneers of the Dutch Modern House
The Iconic Houses Foundation is proud to present its 6th International Iconic Houses Conference in September 2021.
Terms and Conditions: Financialized Space
Even prior to the 1980s, which witnessed a rapid acceleration in processes of financialization under the regimes of neoliberalism, the built environment has always enjoyed an intimate relationship with finance.
PhD Conference: Approaching Research in Architecture
The aim of the workshop is to reflect upon the multitude and diversity of current research practices. This event also marks the beginning of a doctoral course on research practices.
3rd International Symposium of Design for Living with Water
Within the scope of this symposium, the relationship between water and design will be discussed in the process from hunting societies to Society 5.0. As designers and engineers of the “climate change generation” it is our responsibility to contribute to the design field by looking at the past, present and future through the relationship of water and life.