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Queer(ing) Space(s) from Antiquity to the Present
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.
Dwelling with Class
Following research into classism, this issue aims to bring together various perspectives that critically examine dwelling in terms of class relations.
Assistant Professor in History/Theory/Criticism of Architecture, National University of Singapore
The Department of Architecture invites applications for one Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in History/Theory/Criticism of Architecture.
Architekturzentrum Wien: Toourism
The exhibition sheds light on key aspects of tourism, such as mobility, city tourism, interdependencies with agriculture, climate change, the privatisation of natural beauty and the change in accomodation typologies, and explores the question of whether and how tourism development is planned.
After the Middle Ages (Reception, Remnants, Revival): Architecture and Medievalism
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.
Remembering and Restoring the Past to Ensure the Future: Religious Sites of Minneapolis and St. Paul
This seminar is presented as a collaboration between the Centre for the Study of Religion at University of Galway and the Material and Cultural Heritages of Religion in Ireland research network (MCHRI). The seminar chair will be Dr Sophie Cooper, Queen’s University Belfast.
Funded Workshop: Developing Architectural History Education in the UK
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.
Body Matters
Body Matters aims to investigate notions of Body in contemporary architectural discourses. Always a fundamental in architecture, the body needs to be reconsidered on its own terms, as a creative, material and philosophical concern.
ArchDebates III: Islamic Landscape Architecture and the Making of the Renaissance Garden
The 3rd workshop in the series Arch Debates, organized in collaboration with the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and the Escuela de Estudios Arabes (CSIC), aims to stimulate transregional, interdisciplinary debates on the history of landscape architecture.
Materia Arquitectura 26: Cartography and Resistance
Throughout the 26th issue of Materia Arquitectura, the editors are looking for the cartography of resistances that are
being built in the conflicts of the present, but also those that are still silenced in the archive, with the intention
of recognizing ‘bodies’ –human and non-human, subaltern and outside the norm, clandestine or oppressed,
with ignored or unrecognized identity– and ‘territories’ –borders, peripheries, refugee camps, ghettos,
colonies, slums, shantytowns, popular neighborhoods– traditionally excluded from architectural thought
because of their mundane and subversive conditions.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art -early modern European art and architecture, Amherst College
The Amherst College Department of Art and the History of Art seeks a scholar of early modern European art and architecture for a full-time three-year visiting appointment at the rank of visiting assistant professor, beginning on July 1, 2024.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art – North American art and architecture, Amherst College
The Amherst College Department of Art and the History of Art seeks a scholar of North American art and architecture for a full-time three-year visiting appointment at the rank of visiting assistant professor, beginning on July 1, 2024.