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Laureates of Philippe Rotthier European Prize for Architecture 2014
The three laureates of the tenth session of the Philippe Rotthier European Prize for Architecture 2014 are: Philippe Rotthier Grand Prize for the best intervention in a built landscape: Cooking school in a former slaughterhouse in Medina Sidonia, Spain, María...
TWO Doctoral Bursaries in Architecture at the Faculty of Arts, Environment and Technology, Leeds Beckett University (UK)
The Faculty of Arts, Environment and Technology is currently offering two UK/EU fees only PhD bursaries in Architecture, at the School of Art, Architecture and Design, for entry in October 2014. The Faculty offers a unique environment for integrating research across a...
CfP: Dumbarton Oaks Symposium 2015: River Cities: Historical and Contemporary
The dynamic relationships between cities and their rivers, a landscape of potentially critical adaptability and resilience, is the focus of the 2015 Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Building on the emergence of urban humanities and urban...
Professorship in History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism, Basel
The University of Basel, Switzerland, invites applications for a full time tenure track or tenured Professorship in History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism at the assistant, associate, or full professor level. We are seeking an innovative scholar and teacher...
Symposium "Consistency of inner and outer spaces in European Art Nouveau architecture" in Rīga (Latvia)
In the framework of the project Art Nouveau & Ecology supported by the programme Culture 2007-2013 of the European Commission, the Réseau Art Nouveau Network, as a network of cities aiming to preserve, study and promote Art Nouveau at a European scale, organises a...
CFP: Dramatic Architectures. Places of Drama – Drama for Places
CFP: International Conference: Dramatic Architectures. Places of Drama - Drama for Places Escola Superior Artística do Porto, November 3-4, 2014 Architecture and theatre have had a close connection throughout time, but this connection, and the ways these two art forms...
CCA Exhibition: The Mound of Vendôme
On view at the CCA from 19 June to 14 September 2014 and curated by architectural historian David Gissen, The M ound of Vendöme revisits one key episode of French history when the Commune de Paris in 187 1 voted to demolish the Ve ndöme Column,abolishing all allusions...
Call for applications for the Editorial Board of Architectural Histories
Call for applications for the Editorial Board of Architectural Histories. The open access journal of the EAHN In 2011 the first Editorial Board of Architectural Histories was formed. Architectural Histories is the online open access journal of the EAHN, published by...
Conference: Das Verschwinden der Architekten. Architektonische Praxis innerhalb prekärer Entwurfsverhältnisse, Innsbruck, 3-4 July 2014
Innsbruck, 03. - 04.07.2014 Registration deadline: Jul 1, 2014 Universität Innsbruck, Fakultät für Architektur Das Verschwinden der Architekten. Architektonische Praxis innerhalb prekärer Entwurfsverhältnisse Tagung am Arbeitsbereich Baugeschichte und Denkmalpflege in...
Call for contributions – Display Architecture: Department Stores and Modern Retail
Display Architecture: Department Stores and Modern Retail The opening in the mid-nineteenth century of the first “cathedrals of consumption” that were the department stores gave birth to an array of strategies meant to enhance the presentation of merchandise. From...
Classicism and the East: receptions of the oriental in European architecture, Durham University, 4 July 2014
The Durham Centre for Classical Reception is pleased to announce the following conference: Classicism and the East: receptions of the oriental in European architecture Friday 4th July 2014, Durham University, Department of Classics & Ancient History Where studies...
New resource: Architektenlexikon Wien 1770 – 1945
The "Architektenlexikon Wien 1770 - 1945" is the first online encyclopaedia listing those architects, planners and theorists who have contributed to Vienna's cityscape since the 18th century until today. Including biographical, aesthetic, theoretical, historical and...