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Contentious Spaces: Uncovering the Hidden Narratives of Socialist Built Heritage
The organizers are looking for proposals investigating the conservation and preservation of modernist heritage as well as proposals examining the historicization of modernist architectural vocabulary in the contemporary era.
HERITAGE CITIES AND DESTRUCTION | Journal of Architectural Design and History
The second issue of the journal JADH is dedicated to the theme of “destruction”, its perceptions, as well as its implications that can be perceived in several fields of architectural heritage as positive and negative at the same time (destruction/construction, absence/loss, memory/oblivion, etc.).
Deep White: Myths, Materialities, and Ideologies of an Ambivalent Colour
The organizers seek to build dialogue among scholars engaged in interdisciplinary art historical research and to foster conversation on how to examine the different, yet entangled stories of white colour.
2023 Renaissance Architecture and Theory Scholars Conference
Happening in person and online, with advance registration required.
Education, Architecture, Policy
A lecture series on post-war exchanges on educational policy and school building.
Contesting dignity in space: between shame, fame and pride
The call for presentations invites scholars from different fields to submit their original works on the contestations of dignity and its expressions in space. This might refer to dimensions like embodiment in politics, questions of ethnicity, moral or religious stance, or socio-economic status, or as expressions in performances of and feelings such as pride, humility or, shame.
International Journal of Islamic Architecture: The Urgency of the Digital
This special issue encourages contributions that address the urgent promises and risks that digital infrastructures, tools, and approaches hold. The editors invite paper proposals that employ a wide spectrum of approaches, including but not limited to spatial mapping, social network analysis, distant reading, photogrammetry, 3D printing, virtual reality and augmented reality simulators, humanities gaming, and electronic publishing, among other topics addressing contexts in or involving the Islamic world.
Workshop: Perspectives on Uses and Users in the History of Office Buildings
The two-day workshop will take place at the Belval campus of the University of Luxembourg and aims to deconstruct the managerial and
architectural determinants of the 20th-century office buildings.
6th Frascari Symposium: Finishing: The Ends of Architecture
This conference seeks to expand the conceptualization of finishing and explain the practices of finishing in architecture along three currents: the surface, the project, and most broadly, architectural time itself.
Swedish Receptions of Vitruvius from 16th to 21st Century
Talk by Johan Mårtelius, professor emeritus of History of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
8th International Conference on Contemporary Religious Architecture: The Client
The conference brings to the forefront the figure of the client – the principal, the person or entity that inspires, promotes or commissions a work of architecture – highlighting his or her relationship with the architect in a particular building.
Director, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
The Director serves as thought leader and advocate, developing comprehensive strategies for Avery Library specifically and distinctive collections broadly in areas such as analog and born digital acquisitions, digitization, scholarly communication, course and curricular integration, user-centered services, organizational design and change management, diversity and inclusion, accessibility, employee engagement, and the ongoing professional development of Avery’s dedicated staff.