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Symposium: Landscape and Power. London, 18th May 2017
Symposium: Landscape and Power. Thursday 18th May 2017, 6-7.30pm, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, room B03 This event brings together three speakers to share their research on the relationships between landscape,...
Symposium: Art Nouveau and Modernist Architecture: Building the Narratives of Women's Professional Identity. London, 17th May 2017
Symposium: Art Nouveau and Modernist Architecture: Building the Narratives of Women's Professional Identity. Wednesday 17th May 2017, 2pm, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, Room G04 The symposium explores how women...
CfP: The Laboratory Revolution. Groningen, 26-27 October 2017
Call for Papers: The Laboratory Revolution, The Rise of the Laboratory and the Changing Nature of the University, 1850-1950. 26-27 October 2017, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. The conference ‘The Laboratory Revolution’ intends to bring together scholars...
CfP: Dialectic VI: Craft – The Art of Making Architecture
Call for Papers: Dialectic VI: Craft – The Art of Making Architecture DIALECTIC, a refereed journal of the School of Architecture, CA+P, University of Utah. Dialectic VI invites articles, reports, documentation, and photo essays on the craft of architecture and the...
CONF: Rethinking Museums Politically (Berlin, 11-12 May 2017)
Rethinking Museums Politically: Berlin’s Altes Museum, Museum Island and the (reconstructed) City Palace Berlin, Technische Universität, May 11 - 12, 2017 Since its opening in 1830, Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Altes Museum has been located in Berlin's highly symbolic...
CfP: thresholds 46: SCATTER!
Call for Papers: thresholds 46: SCATTER! Editors: Anne Graziano, Eliyahu Keller. From treatises to TED talks; postcards to propaganda; etchings to drawings, films, and blogs, architecture moves in diverse and curious ways. It is these currencies, which give...
CfP: Private Virtues or Vices? Architects in Search of Aesthetics of Resistance. Brisbane, 20-21 July 2017.
Call for Papers: Private Virtues or Vices? Architects in Search of Aesthetics of Resistance. Brisbane, University of Queensland’s School of Architecture, 20-21 July 2017. 'It is remarkable to observe the good taste and restraint with which the most wildly innovative...
CfP: Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos 2017. Funchal, 8–12 November 2017
Call for Papers: Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos 2017. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 8–12 November 2017. This conference brings together researchers from across the globe to explore urban life on islands and archipelagos. Islands are often associated with...
CfP: The Open Hand 2: Orientalism in the Pacific. Auckland, 9 September 2017.
Call for Papers: The Open Hand 2: Orientalism in the Pacific. Auckland, 9 September 2017. With the election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States and Brexit, it appears like we have been returned to aggressively hegemonic geopolitics and spatial...
CONF: Inside | Outside: Trading between Art and Architecture. Ghent, 4-6 May 2017.
Conference: Inside | Outside: Trading between Art and Architecture. Ghent, 4-6 May 2017. KASK / School of Arts. The conference Inside | Outside will focus on specific examples or ‘cases’ of the two-way directions of transaction between art and architecture: artists...
CfP: Architecture and professionalism. Antwerp, 7-8 December 2017
Call for Papers: Architecture and professionalism. New approaches towards the work of Léon Stynen and his international contemporaries. International conference, deSingel, Antwerp, 7-8 December 2017. Flanders Architecture Institute – Architectural Archives of the...
CfP: The Tools of the Architect. Delft and Rotterdam, 22-24 November 2017
Call for Papers: The Tools of the Architect. EAHN European Architectural History Network, International Thematic Conference. 22 – 24 November 2017. TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The European Architectural History Network (EAHN) is...