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Affordances of Architectural Typology
The editors are looking for buildings that can illustrate the relationship between more or less open ‘indeterminacy’ and affordance.
Thresholds 52: Disappearance
The editors seek contributions that aim to discover how disappearances are spatially manifested (human/non-human, living/non-living, material/symbolic) and how the appearances of certain things have led to the disappearances of others.
Book Launch Event: Drawing and Experiencing Architecture
Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city’s inhabitants.
Constructing Coloniality: British Imperialism and the Built Environment
The conference takes as its theme the coloniality of architecture and heritage in relation to the British Empire, from the early years of expansionism and the escalation of the slave trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through the physical and political force wielded in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the development of racial capitalism, to the subsequent and ongoing struggles for independence, freedom and justice.
Fondation Le Corbusier’s Research Grants
These grants are intended to stimulate new fields of research but also to highlight lesser known aspects of Le Corbusier’s work.
Buell Center Research and Teaching Fellow
The Buell Center at Columbia University seeks a recent doctoral recipient to join its intellectual community for a 21-month fellowship.
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.