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CfP: Portals as Places of Transformation (Bamberg, 11-14 January 2018)
Final Conference of the BMBF Project “Portals as Places of Transformation” The medieval church portal is in many respects a place of transformation. At the threshold of a church, various spheres converge and meet: secular – ecclesiastic, corporeal – spiritual, earthly...
CfP: Architectural Theory Review 22:1 Resist, Reclaim, Speculate (deadline 1 June 2017)
Resist, Reclaim, Speculate: Situated Perspectives on Architecture and the City Architectural Theory Review Deadline: June 1, 2017 In search of new forms of critical and creative resistance, the Editors of this issue of ATR call for situated, relational, and embodied...
CfP: The Art of Ornament (Lisbon, 23-25 November 2017)
The Art of Ornament. Meaning, Archetypes, Forms and Uses Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, November 23 - 25, 2017 Deadline: April 30, 2017 The topics suggested for proposals for participating in this Conference are generically the following, although others may be...
CONF: Architecture, Citizenship, Space (Oxford, 15-16 June 2017)
Architecture, Citizenship, Space: British Architecture from the 1920s to the 1970s Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, Oxford, June 15 - 16, 2017 How did individuals and groups concerned with architecture and the built environment respond to, and...
JOB: Research Associate – Relocating Modernism (Munich, deadline 1 May 2017)
Job @ METROMOD, Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile, an ERC funded project at the Institute for Art History of the LMU Munich Institute for Art History, School of Arts, Zentnerstr. 31, D-80798 Munich, Germany, September 1, 2017 Application...
CONF: Histories Built, Carved & Written (New Brunswick, NJ 7 April 2017)
Histories Built, Carved, and Written: A Symposium in Honor of Tod A. Marder Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 7, 2017 This symposium is organized on the occasion of Tod A. Marder’s retirement from active teaching. A generous and...
CONF: Work, Play & Protest: Ephemeral Architecture, 1500-c.1900 (Oxford, 29 – 30 April, 2017)
Work, Play & Protest: Ephemeral Architecture & Temporary Structures, 1500-c.1900 Rewley House 1 Wellington Square Oxford OX1 2JA Think of the historic built environment and what comes to mind are churches, palaces and grand civic buildings: architecture...
CFP: The Architectural Review
The Architectural Review Does your research into architectural history deserve a wider public? The Architectural Review seeks contributors for its new History section, a 1,200-word feature which aims to bring the unexamined to light and open new perspectives on more...
Book Proposals: Routledge Research in Architecture
Routledge Research in Architecture We are actively looking for new book proposals for our Routledge Research in Architecture series. The series provides academic readers with the latest scholarship in the field of architecture and covers research from areas as diverse...
Annual Prizes in Architectural History (SAHGB)
The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain: Annual Prizes in Architectural History. The Society of Architectural Historians Great Britain (SAHGB) is accepting nominations and submissions for its growing suite of internationally-renowned prizes. These...
CfP: Drawing Millions of Plans Conference. Copenhagen, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK), 1–3 November 2017
Call for Papers: Drawing Millions of Plans Conference. Copenhagen, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK), 1–3 November 2017. This conference invites scholars and practitioners to investigate and discuss contemporary architectural drawing and, in particular, the...
Cfp: Studies in History and Theory of Architecture journal: Marginalia. Limits within the Urban Realm.
Call for Papers: Studies in History and Theory of Architecture journal: Marginalia. Limits within the Urban Realm. The journal studies in History and Theory of Architecture, published by the Department of Architectural History & Theory and Heritage...