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SAHGB MA Scholarship
Recognising that partial support often excludes those from non-traditional backgrounds for postgraduate study in the humanities, the SAHGB is offering a £20,000 bursary to one candidate.
SAHGB Dissertation Prize
The Dissertation Prize is framed to encourage innovative and critical thinking in and around the subject, either by the pursuit of new kinds and categories of knowledge or else by reassessing and rewriting topics that are already an accepted part of the field.
The relation between the garden and the house
The aim of the conference series is to compare the uses, practices and techniques applied in the gardens of Europe and East Asia. With the fourth edition of the conference series we extend the discourse to the Islamic cultural sphere. Alongside a certain form of universality in the function of the garden (pleasure, display of power, ceremonial, reclusion but also production), the scholars are questioning, from one continent to another, the extraordinary diversity of the elements that make up a garden, of the forms and devices that implement it and of the representations that express its nature.
Emotion, Sense, Experience in British Art and Architecture
How can we revise the history of British art and architecture through the lens of the histories of emotions and senses? What can the history of British art and architecture add to our understanding of the histories of emotions and senses?
FACES 83 + 84 / Light and Heavy
The next issues of FACES will focus on lightness vs. heaviness, two notions that often have an antonymic and antinomic relationship, signalling the opposition of two conceptual and practical propositions between which architects must in principle choose,
based on their location, culture, and building tradition and in accordance with their aesthetic, technical, economic, political, and ethical convictions.
An evolving architectural heritage today: direction and signification?
Considering all previously built structures as materials to be preserved and transformed challenges the very concept of heritage. Can the need for classification for restoration purposes coexist with the need to view all existing structures as a resource for transforming the world?
Drawing Attention to the Periphery
The organizers welcome papers that investigate peripheral conditions, drawing attention to the strangely familiar and the memorably unfamiliar; the events, encounters, forms, ideas, and narratives of the periphery.
International Conference on Architecture as Built Criticism
This year’s conference seeks papers that offer realized examples of architecture as built criticism.
Research Assistant in the Field of Architecture and Landscape
Leibniz University Hanover The Faculty of Architecture and Landscape, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, Department of Architectural Theory (Prof. Dr. Nathalie Bredella), invites applications for the position of a Research Assistant (m/f/d) in the...
Materia Arquitectura N°25: Out of Place Matter
This issue of Materia Arquitectura seeks contributions that explore these new conditions in the context of environmental degradation. It calls for research and design projects, both speculative and realized, that reformulate our relationship to the design of public spaces, environmental management systems, and our active role as citizens and professional custodians of the landscapes we inhabit.
German Colonial Building Cultures in 100 Primary Sources
The exhibition explores how print media of the time – from colonial daily newspapers to specialist architectural journals, from travel reports and guidebooks to (auto)biographies by/of German colonists – put German colonial architecture ‘into words and images’.
Educating the Interior Designer
This international conference aims to bring together scholars interested in the history of the education of interior designers.