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CFP: Thinking Architecture through Publication (Lisbon, 28-29 Sept. 2015)
Thinking Architecture through Publication September 28 - 29, 2015 Deadline: Jun 5, 2015 Currently, there’s a widespread consensus that architectural magazines have played a fundamental role in consecrating identities and giving rise to new orders of thought on...
CFP: The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Early Modern Europe (Pasadena/Los Angeles, 6-10 April 2016)
Call for Paper Proposals: The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Early Modern Europe Society of Architectural Historians (Pasadena/Los Angeles, 6-10 April 2016) Application deadline: 9 June 2015 Thinking about the creation of ‘national styles’ in architecture, most...
CFP: Shared invention (Clermont-Ferrand, Aubusson, Limoges, 6-8 April 2016)
Call for paper proposals: SHARED INVENTION FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE 21ST CENTURY (Clermont-Ferrand, Aubusson, Limoges, 6-8 April 2016) Deadline: Jun 22, 2015 International Colloquium Organized by Laurence RIVIALE and Jean-François LUNEAU, lecturers, Blaise Pascal...
CFP: Italien und die wandernde Hauptstadt (Innsbruck, 19-20 June 2015)
Call for Paper: "ITALIEN UND DIE WANDERNDE HAUPTSTADT / L’ITALIA E LA CAPITALE ITINERANTE Torino / Firenze / Roma" Innsbruck, 19. - 20 June, 2015 Deadline: May 18, 2015 Studientag am Arbeitsbereich Baugeschichte und Denkmalpflege der Leopold-Franzens-Universität...
Lecture: Architecture for All: English Baroque (London, 7 May 2015)
Lecture: "Architecture for All: English Baroque" -- 7 May 2015 Venue & Time: Room 080 Queen Anne Building, University of Greenwich. 18.30 - 20.00 Price: £5 Adult, £3 ORNC Angel Description: Dan Cruickshank opens the season with a talk exploring the notion of the...
CFP: Palaces and Urban Dynamics: Centers of Power and Knowledge in Europe (Évora, 5 – 7 November, 2015)
Call for paper proposals: Palaces and Urban Dynamics: Centers of Power and Knowledge in Europe -- Évora, Portugal, 5 - 7 November, 2015 Due 10 May 2015 The European palaces established more than mere residences of monarchs, princes, cardinals, aristocrats and...
Call for Applications: ATCH Visiting Fellows Program
Call for Applications: ATCH Visiting Fellows Program Closing: June 1, 2015. The ATCH (Architecture Theory Criticism History) Research Centre invites applications for the Visiting Fellows Program 2015-2016. The program welcomes applications from scholars with varying...
CfP: This Thing Called Theory-12th AHRA International Conference (19th-21st November 2015)
This Thing Called Theory - 12th AHRA International Conference Leeds Beckett University / School of Art, Architecture and Design / Leeds, United Kingdom 19th-21st November 2015 This conference proposes Theory as a form of architectural practice which opposes the...
CfP: Scandalous Slabs, SAH
CfP: SCANDALOUS SLABS THE SEMANTICS OF THE MODERNIST OFFICE-BUILDING AFTER 1945 If Sigfried Giedion is right (Space, Time and Architecture, 1941), the Rockefeller Center’s RCA Building was barely completed when critics responded to its size, width and provocative...
Symposium: "ARCHITECTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY" (Zaragoza, 28 May 2015)
FIFTH SYMPOSIUM "ARCHITECTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY" University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, May 28, 2015 The research group “Photography and modern architecture in Spain” of the University of Zaragoza organizes the fifth annual Symposium “Architecture and Photography”, to...
CONF: Mythos Orient (Oberhofen, 12 June 2015)
Mythos Orient. Architektur und Ornament im Zeitalter des Orientalismus 12 June 2015 -- Schloss Oberhofen (Schweiz) Registration deadline: Jun 8, 2015 PROGRAMM 8.45-9.00 Registration 9.00-9.15 Christina Fankhauser (Stiftung Schloss Oberhofen)/Francine Giese...
CFP: “Architettura e città. Problemi di tutela e valorizzazione nei centri storici e nelle periferie” (La Spezia, 27- 28 November 2015)
Convegno Internazionale di studi “Architettura e città. Problemi di tutela e valorizzazione nei centri storici e nelle periferie” La Spezia, 27-28 novembre 2015 [See English below] La simbiosi fra architettura e città rappresenta uno dei temi più significativi del...