Anachronism, according to encyclopedias, is an error. For historians, argued Manfredo Tafuri paraphrasing Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, it is something worse: a mortal sin (Bloch 1949: 176; Febvre 1947: 15; Tafuri 1984: 64). More recently, Georges Didi-Huberman and...

The Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève explores the role of interior spaces in shaping contemporaneity. To that extent, it organizes a series of reflections and interventions that aim to learn, question and visibilize how interiors play a key role in...

Session organised at EAUH 2026 by Nele De Raedt (UCLouvain), Merlijn Hurx (KU Leuven) and Jaap-Evert Abrahamse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Deadline for applications: 22.10.2025 Water management is a central issue in urban governance. Both an essential resource for...

OVERVIEW Recent scholarship in the environmental and energy humanities has called attention to regimes of energy transition. The discussion on futures "after oil" marks a shift from earlier studies of oil assemblages, which evolved from analyses of coal-based fossil...

Date: 15 August -15 September 2025 Location: London, UK When interior decoration professionalized in urban centers throughout the world in the nineteenth century, new businesses ranging in scale from family furniture firms in Damascus to department stores in...

November 27–28, 2025 | Politecnico di Milano – Mantova Campus Curated by Elisa Boeri and Luca Cardani (Department ABC, Politecnico di Milano) In the history of places of care, architecture holds a decisive and deeply symbolic value. It was the physical container in...

International Conference Politecnico di Milano, December 2-3, 2025 organized by Chiara Baglione (Politecnico di Milano) and Fabio Marino (Politecnico di Milano) Communicating architecture to a non-specialist audience means not only interpreting and clarifying complex...

“Antillean art,” remarked St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, “is this restoration of our shattered histories, our shards of vocabulary, our archipelago becoming a synonym for pieces broken off from the original...

Michel Foucault, in La volonté de savoir (1976), described how the mechanisms of the examination of conscience belonging to the pastoral tradition of the 17th century progressively extended to all areas of society, marking the threshold of a biopolitical modernity....

As climate disruption and ecological crises increasingly reshape planning policies, the design disciplines—architecture, urbanism, and landscape—are being called upon to reinvent themselves (Younès, 1999; Bognon, 2022; Rode, 2023). Yet the contours of this...

Coined by Thomas More in 1516, utopia holds a telling ambiguity: it means “no place” (ou-topos) but is sufficiently close to “good place” (eu-topos). Since then, the concept has oscillated between aspiration and critique—between imagining radical alternatives and...

Organizers: Irene Cheng, James Graham, Andrew Herscher, Diana Martinez Attention to material has become almost ubiquitous in recent architectural history, both extending and revising a modernist tradition of interest in material innovation and expression. Whether...

CIVICNESS: ARCHITECTURE AND THE POLITICS OF THE PUBLIC REALM Guest editors: Anna Livia Friel & Agustina Labarca Gatica The term character in architecture has long been contested. During the 17th century, it was defined as rational manifestation of a building’s...

Palm leaves loosely thatched create a bushy screen wall. The screen is part of a large building designed to shelter the pieces of other plants and make them dry out quickly. They are tobacco leaves, hanging from the rafters in neat rows swaying in the breeze. Nearby,...

The RIVELAZIONI international conference invites contributions that engage critically with spaces of marginalization, confinement, and invisibility – places that are physically or symbolically denied within contemporary society. These may include prisons, detention...

International conference: gta Institute (ETH Zurich) and CDHM (Geneva Graduate Institute). Organised by Andreas Kalpakci, Charlotte Rottiers, and Davide Rodogno Diplomatic interiors have long shaped how foreign relations are conducted. From ambassadorial residencies...

International Conference Organized by: MAIA, Master of Arts in Interior Architecture, HEAD – Genève (HES-SO) Scientific Committee: Javier Fernández Contreras, Youri Kravtchenko Date: 17 November 2025 Location: HEAD – Genève, Avenue de Châtelaine 7; 1203 Geneva The...

The congress, Mexico and Spain: Five Centuries of Architecture for a Shared History/México y España. Cinco siglos de arquitectura para una historia en común, will take place in Seville at the end of October 2026. More information related to the call for papers in...

Sasha (ULB) and ACTE (ULiège) research groups are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the conference “The Neglected Times of Architecture” to be held in Brussels on March 17 and 18, 2026. The framework of the conference, along with practical information, can...

The University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Eleonore Marantz) and the ENSA Paris-La Villette (Sophie Descat, Catherine Maumi) organize an international conference on "Frank Lloyd Wright's legacy in France: transmissions, appropriations, hybridizations", which will take...

16th 4T DESIGN AND DESIGN HISTORY SYMPOSIUM On the Move: Objects/Images/Spaces 6-7 November 2025 Extended Deadline for Abstracts: 30 June 2025 Venue: The symposium will be hosted by Dokuz Eylül University (DEU) Faculty of Fine Arts in Dokuz Eylül Continuing Education...

Session at Society of Architectural Historians Conference 2026 (Mexico City, 15-19 Apr 26) SAH, Mexico City, Apr 15–19, 2026 Deadline: Jun 5, 2025 www.sah.org/2026 We invite paper proposals for the session: Women, Welfare, Labour: The Architecture of Philanthropy ...

36.2 Spatial Practices of Transnational Care Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand invites papers for a special issue (Vol. 36 No. 2) on the theme of “Spatial Practices of Transnational Care”, edited by...

Abstracts are now being accepted for the 19th International Docomomo Conference, taking place March 17-22, 2026 in Los Angeles. Docomomo International invites practitioners, educators, researchers, and scholars involved in the documentation, conservation, and...

JOELHO 17, “Co-Operative Housing” EDITORS: João Mendes Ribeiro, Nuno Correia, Nuno Travasso In the next issue of JOELHO we will address topics related with contemporary forms of housing. We use the expression “Co-Operative” both in the sense of alternative ways of...

The Second Annual Mark Girouard Symposium 15 November 2025 - The Courtauld Institute of Art, London The Second Annual Mark Girouard Symposium 15 November 2025 - The Courtauld Institute of Art, London Organised by Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain,...

Heritage Making in the Eastern Mediterranean Session at the Society of Architectural Historians Meeting, Mexico City, April 15–19, 2026 Deadline: Jun 5, 2025 Heritage making, previously masked by the guise of historic preservation and perceived as a technical...

The ATI2026 Conference hosted by Yaşar University, İzmir (Türkiye), addresses the use of innovative technologies in architectural design and education through the themes and topics listed below. PRODUCTION This theme encompasses topics related to the innovative...

Farming Architecture Beyond the Farm Session at Society of Architectural Historians Conference 2026 (Mexico City, 15-19 Apr 26) SAH, Mexico City, Apr 15–19, 2026 Deadline: Jun 5, 2025 www.sah.org/2026 We invite paper proposals for the session Farming Architecture...

Synergies: Building Collaborations in Architectural Research Guest Editors: Urs Hirschberg, Sophia Meeres, Milena Stavrić A defining feature of architecture is its multidisciplinary nature—whether in design, practice, or research. In architectural design, many...

The 1970s, also known as the decade of “development,” witnessed not only an unprecedented flow of capital to the Global South but also a steady stream of technical specialists and advisors. Western-educated architects and engineers were contracted by the Ministries of...

“WATERLINES” Research, Projects and Visions for the Connection between Cities and Waterfronts International Conference Ancona, September 5–6, 2025 The international conference WATERLINES. Research, Projects and Visions for the Connection between Cities and...

What stories do abandoned buildings still hold? Can they be transformed to serve new purposes without losing their essence? How can architects balance history and innovation? This conference delves into the art and challenge of adaptive reuse, where past and present...

The aim of this editorial initiative, promoted by the research project Retranslates1 and the Department of Architecture and Design at the Politecnico di Torino, is to develop a historical and critical investigation into the network of exchanges and mutual influences...

Women’s History Today: the Journal of the Women’s History Network is seeking expressions of interest for articles to be included in a Special Issue focused on tracing the education and career paths of women in the professions of the built environment with a special...

HIG Emerging Scholars Symposium The Society of Architectural Historians Historic Interiors Group (HIG), in collaboration with Virginia Commonwealth University, is seeking proposals for its 5th Annual Emerging Scholars Symposium, If These Walls Could Talk: Fiction,...

The Jaap Bakema Study Centre has announced a call for papers for its annual conference, to be held on 26 and 27 November. This year’s conference, entitled Networks of (Ex)Change, is being organised in collaboration with the gta Archive of the ETH Zürich and focuses on...

Convenors: Elif Kaymaz (Middle East Technical University), Caner Arıkboğa (Middle East Technical University) Military architecture is a spatial paradox—designed for permanence yet subject to decay, built for impenetrability yet frequently abandoned, and if in use,...

Art can serve as the foundation and purpose for research, providing motivation, context, and methodologies. This approach is often defined as Artistic Research (AR), and its goal is to articulate a framework that positions art both as an object of study and as well as...

The conference was held between 24-26 September. You may explore all conference contributions through the following links: Book of abstracts - https://www.passages.polimi.it/book-of-abstracts/ Contributions - https://www.passages.polimi.it/discover/ Call for Abstracts...

Convenor(s): Özgün Özçakır (Middle East Technical University), Mesut Dinler (Politecnico di Torino) As the climate crisis intensifies, historic environments are increasingly susceptible to extreme weather events, rising temperatures, and environmental degradation....

The construction of context, understood not only as a set of material, physical and spatial conditions, but also as a system of cultural, social and historical relations, is a fundamental step in defining the pedagogical project. Contexts are not just repositories...

Research Day: Hors Catégorie On Thursday 20 November 2025, the Flanders Architecture Institute organises its annual research day in De Singel in Antwerp. Entitled Hors catégorie, it explores how archival classifications shape – but also limit – our understanding of...

Laboring Landscapes: Workers’ Agency in Transforming Agricultural Spaces Session 07 at Architecture and Labour, III Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes International Congress Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon | 11–13 February 2026 We invite paper proposals for...

WOMEN ARCHITECTS UNDER STATE SOCIALISM: ONLINE WORKSHOP EAHN WOMEN AND GENDER IN ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE AND URBAN DESIGN INTEREST GROUP The EAHN Women and Gender in Architecture Landscape and Urban Design Interest Group, is inviting presentation proposals for our...

We are now accepting abstracts for its 79th Annual International Conference in Mexico City, Mexico, April 15–19, 2026. Authors may submit abstracts to one of the 54 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks, or the Open Sessions for the Mexico City...

Chaired by Marco Folin (Università di Genova), the Session 2.15 Comparing European Civic Architecture Over the Long Term (12th–18th Centuries) is part of the 12th AISU CONGRESS - THE CROSSROAD CITY Relations and Exchanges, Intersections and Crossing Points in Urban...

15th International Conference on the History of Modern Architecture "BUILDING FOR HIGHER EDUCATION: CITIES AND TEMPLES OF KNOWLEDGE (1930-1990)" There are many buildings for higher education teaching that have occupied a prominent place in the development of...

You are welcome to submit your abstract proposal for a paper in the framework of the session “7.13 The Brutalist City. Concrete as a Tool for Urban and Intercultural Experimentation” at the 12th Congress of the  Italian Association of Urban History/Associazione...

Late 19th-century museum exhibitions, rooted in natural sciences, archaeological, and art historical disciplines, primarily served as visualizations of methodology. They were a part of the research process and represented a form of spatial knowledge production in...

Call for Papers is now open Abstract deadline: May 5, 2025. Full-paper deadline: September 15, 2025 Critic|all is an initiative lead by the Architectural Design Department of Madrid ETSAM–UPM. The sixth edition of this peer-reviewed conference is organized in...

In the late Middle Ages, cities were governed through constant dialogue. Rulers, nobility, citizens and other social groups all found ways to shape urban governance, each articulating complex views on what “good” governance entailed. In order to meet expectations of...

The concept of the double has long fascinated—and unsettled—philosophers, psychologists, and artists, emerging as a site of tension between self and other, reality and illusion, truth and distortion. The double operates as a bizarre paradox—identical yet different, a...

What happens when those living alongside historical monuments—churchgoers, farmers, workers, custodians, local officials, non-human entities—see these sites as theirs? Through what sources and scholarly approaches can we recover their voices and their role in the...

Architectural exhibitions, despite their transient nature, have a profound influence in articulating movements, sparking central discussions and marking traces in the field. They act as active agents that represent, culminate, disseminate or project prevailing...

Guest editors: PAREID (Deborah Lopez + Hadin Charbel) The increasing use of interactive media in architecture has radically transformed how we conceive of and experience both the subjects and the scales of design. The traditional approach of working with isolated,...

The issue 03 of 4A Journal will be dedicated to exploring the synergy between cultural heritage and fashion, aimed at investigating the new forms of territorial, architectural, artistic, and social enhancement generated by the interaction of these two design...

CICA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM 2025 TERRITORIALITY AND TEMPORALITY IN ARCHITECTURE Online Conference. CICA Comité International des Critiques d’Architecture 18-19, 25–26 October 2025 Call for Abstracts How do buildings establish and engage...

A little over 25 years ago, the site of this conference, Maritime Greenwich, London, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Home to the first Palladian building in England, the Royal Naval College by Sir Christopher Wren, the National Maritime Museum, the...

The OASE 123 issue edited by Sebastiaan Loosen, Hans Teerds and Tom Avermaete will examine incompleteness in architecture. For this issue, editors are looking for contributions that in various ways explore historical examples and/or contemporary practices, wherein...

Dreams of the South: Nordic Architecture and the Mediterranean This session examines the architectural interactions between the Nordic countries and the Mediterranean, examining the North’s ever-evolving relation to the South as a cultural and geographical entity, as...

Diversifying the Architectural Canon with “Crossed Histories” Organised by Dr. Cathelijne Nuijsink and Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich In June 2024, we held...

Within the body of knowledge that defines architectural design and the means to discuss and transmit it, the brief occupies an ambiguous position. Its status is that of a working document, rarely considered in the context – such as books, journals, conferences, and...

This colloquium investigates the emergence of "technocelebrity" architects in the 20th century, emphasizing the crucial role of intermediaries—such as publicists and intellectuals—in shaping their public image and influence through media and cultural discourse. Long...

The deadline for the proposals' submissions for the CFP titled "Ricardo Bofill Abroad: The International Projection of the Taller de Arquitectura" (HPA issue no. 15) has been extended until February, 28. The issue will be edited by Antonio Pizza, Marta García...

The term "bureaucracy" refers to the organisation of people, processes, and to paperwork. Bureaucracy is often used as a synonym for inefficiency and disinterest, as the so-called "fifth form of rule by irresponsible officials who are not at risk" (Männle 2023)....

International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) Guest editor: Esra Akcan Thematic volume planned for: 2027 Abstract submission deadline: June 1, 2025 One may misleadingly infer from the data on the built environment’s responsibility in causing climate change that...

Conference One: LISBON Lisbon, the capital of Portugal has increasingly become a ‘mecca’ for European expats wishing to relocate. Attracted by sun, beaches, food, culture and history, it has been ranked as the world’s third most livable city for foreigners. The home...

By the scope of his work and commitments, Jean-Louis Cohen has had a profound impact on the history of architecture and urban planning, not only in France but throughout the world. As a historian of architectural modernity, he has endeavored to study main figures, as...

“Offbeat / Off-beam” We invite paper submissions for our new feature that critically profiles objects, people, events or other phenomena that have hitherto been misunderstood, undervalued, or overlooked in architectural discourse. Papers might centre on vulnerable or...

Rethinking our disciplines in terms of time and not just space is a challenge that concerns all scales (buildings, cities, landscapes, territories). The magnitude of the challenge calls for openness to other disciplines: history, the arts, philosophy, economics, literature, sociology, and anthropology. Given the scale of the problem, don’t we need to look at things from different angles, and fundamentally reconsider the way in which time shapes space?

“Miserabilia” investigates spaces and spectres of misery in the imagination and reality of the contemporary Italian urban context. The main objective is the definition of tools for the recognition and investigation of the tangible and intangible manifestations of misery and the development of methods and languages to narrate and design it.

This edited volume aims to explore the multifaceted impacts of the transition from oil-driven economies and landscapes to post-oil paradigms, focusing on urban transformations, resilience strategies, and the preservation and reinterpretation of oil heritage. 

The organizers invite researchers in architecture––practitioners and academics, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers––to reflect upon their own quest for truth in their research, as well as on what the true nature of research in architecture could be.

By examining detail through the lens of ethics, this issue invites contributions that might help deconstruct the separation between design and construction.

The call focuses on places of culture, i.e. places built to boost new ideas, nurture doubts, dreams, and today’s utopias that will be tomorrow’s reality and strengthen the sense of belonging to a community. 

The organizers invite proposals that reflect upon the many possible interpretations of islands in architectural history: how islands have influenced the production and reception of architecture, and how architecture has contributed to the formation and transformation of island cultures, identities, and environments.

The Society of Architectural Historians invites those interested in the history of the built environment to submit a session proposal for its virtual conference—SAH Virtual 2024—that will be held from Thursday, September 19, to Saturday, September 21, 2024. 

In this conference, the organizers are inviting contributors to help capture capacious new research examining the residues of queer histories in spaces, buildings, landscapes and material cultures.

Following research into classism, this issue aims to bring together various perspectives that critically examine dwelling in terms of class relations.

The conference aims to navigate and shine a spotlight on the historical interactions between these responses and architecture, encompassing attitudes towards the medieval built environment, remnants of the Middle Ages, and practices of reception and revival.

Over the past years, renewed attention has been given to calls for improving architectural history education through such means as diversity, anti-racism, globalizing histories, and anti-, post-, and de-colonisation, among others.