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Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Université libre de Bruxelles
The research assistant is responsible for assisting in setting up projects and seeking funding, and expected to be the main point of contact at the ULB for the elaboration of research projects related to architectural and urban planning practices
The Future or the Eclipse of Criticism and Acts of Critical Writing
The aim of this symposium is to investigate emerging themes, identifying those figures, exhibitions, editorial
projects and paradigmatic constructions that support, or that have driven, particular critical approaches.
Stoà Journal – Issue 8 [Lexicon]
The aim of Stoà 8 is to carry out a critical reflection on the words used in the teaching of architectural design today, in order to identify a conceptual vocabulary necessary to encompass (and possibly reinvent) the various subject areas of the discipline.
DISTANT PROXIMITIES | V AEAULP International Seminar on Architecture and Urbanism
The conference seeks to give voice to a ‘language that we all inhabit’ and in which all these thoughts of proximity
and distance, science and vox populi manifest themselves.
Lecturer in Architecture Studies
The committee is looking for applications from candidates who specialise in architectural studies with a focus on architectural humanities and/or social studies of architecture and can contribute to research-informed teaching that complements the existing clusters of activity in the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG) and the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA).
Engaging Cosmotechnical Difference in Architecture and Urbanism: Cosmologies, Technologies, Worlds
The editors invite contributions that aim to critically expand the purview of architectural and urban discourse to address the contemporary discussions of technology and plurality.
Contentious Spaces: Uncovering the Hidden Narratives of Socialist Built Heritage
The organizers are looking for proposals investigating the conservation and preservation of modernist heritage as well as proposals examining the historicization of modernist architectural vocabulary in the contemporary era.
HERITAGE CITIES AND DESTRUCTION | Journal of Architectural Design and History
The second issue of the journal JADH is dedicated to the theme of “destruction”, its perceptions, as well as its implications that can be perceived in several fields of architectural heritage as positive and negative at the same time (destruction/construction, absence/loss, memory/oblivion, etc.).
Deep White: Myths, Materialities, and Ideologies of an Ambivalent Colour
The organizers seek to build dialogue among scholars engaged in interdisciplinary art historical research and to foster conversation on how to examine the different, yet entangled stories of white colour.
2023 Renaissance Architecture and Theory Scholars Conference
Happening in person and online, with advance registration required.
Education, Architecture, Policy
A lecture series on post-war exchanges on educational policy and school building.
Contesting dignity in space: between shame, fame and pride
The call for presentations invites scholars from different fields to submit their original works on the contestations of dignity and its expressions in space. This might refer to dimensions like embodiment in politics, questions of ethnicity, moral or religious stance, or socio-economic status, or as expressions in performances of and feelings such as pride, humility or, shame.