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Architecture, Villages, and their Entangled Histories: Rural-urban Encounters in the Islamic World
This panel invites papers which examine the making of villages in the Islamic world from the medieval era to the second half of the twentieth century.
Tange transnational – Japanese futures for European cities
The panel aims at examining Tange‘s influence on European architecture and urban planning in a comprehensive way.
The 2nd International Symposium on the Architecture of Erik Gunnar Asplund
The aim of the symposium is to give an overview of the current state of research on Erik Gunnar Asplund.
Habitat in Transition
The new Ph.D. program HabiT (Habitat in Transition) is designed to create an interdisciplinary, innovative and collaborative training and research context specifically for teachers and students to address contemporary and complex challenges related to the critical issues of Sustainable Transition (environment, welfare, living space).
(Un)Common Precedents, the Agora II International Symposium
The symposium tackles some critical questions, which are at the core of practice: How do architects build a frame of reference? Which are the under-acknowledged and (un)common precedents that inspire architectural design in terms of diversity, culture and socio-political contexts? Is there potential in seeking architectural precedents in adjacent disciplines such as literature, music, the culinary, visual, and performing arts, and beyond?
Ardeth no. 13: Energy Landscapes
The ARDETH issue promotes the conceptual framework of “energy land- scapes” to question energy as cheap, abundant, and at the disposal of urban development. It critically examines concepts and methods for shaping future energy landscapes.
Vitruvius n. 3, 2024
The journal is a scholarly periodical that aims to publish essays on topics related to all that pertains to Vitruvius and his work, the De Architectura, the only treatise on architecture that has come down to us complete from antiquity.
Stoà Open Seminar Conference
Architectural design pedagogy, in contrast to other pedagogies, draws from both theories and practices, contingencies, and immanences. What critical issues might arise for those involved in teaching, studying, and contributing to architectural design pedagogy, ultimately qualifying as central themes meriting in-depth exploration through the construction of a monographic issue of the journal, focused on pedagogical tools for architectural design teaching?
Bruno Zevi Prize 2023
With a view to developing and disseminating the teachings of Bruno Zevi and his method of critical and historical inquiry, The Bruno Zevi Foundation annually holds an international competition to award a prize for a historical-critical essay offering an original...
Forging “Crossed Histories” of Twentieth-Century Architecture and Urban Design
While this session first and foremost explores ways to capture dynamism in historiography, it equally calls attention to the challenges that come with “crossing”: the necessity to combine multiple sources, the ever-present need to open counter-archives, and how to account for the hierarchies embedded in crossed histories.
The “Professional Worlds” of Architectural Ornament: Actors and Practices from the 18th Century to the Present Day
Despite their common dynamism, these two fields of study–the history of ornament and the history of professions related to architecture –have so far rarely been connected to one another. The ambition of this colloquium is therefore to foster such a dialogue, to move towards a better understanding of the ‘professional worlds’ of ornament.
Architecture and Urban Planning in Post-Independence Morocco: Tracing Actor Trajectories and Knowledge Circulation
Rabat, February 20, 2024 The inaugural session of RHAM, Research Network on the History of Architecture in Morocco, 20th-21st Centuries (Réseau de recherche sur l'histoire de l'architecture au Maroc aux XXe-XXIe siècles, https://rham.hypotheses.org/), marks the...