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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.
THE ARCHITECTURES OF CATALOGS | THE CATALOGS OF ARCHITECTURES
Even though catalogs are widely mentioned in books and manuals of architectural history, specific studies still need to be more systematic. The purpose of this conference is to initiate this systematization
Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory
SUDHT is intended as a worldwide forum with an expansive interest in the past.
The Wild West meets Rome: Roman Architecture at The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Omaha (1898)
The Institute for the Study of International Expositions (ISIE) presents “New Perspectives on National Pavilions at World Fairs.” This is the second lecture in the series.
Architecture for Education (1914-1975): A Permanent Need
The School of Architecture of the University of Navarra is the venue for the International Conference on the History of Modern Architecture. The meeting has been held every two years since its creation in 1998.
Architecture + Cities Research Studentships
The School of Architecture + Cities at the University of Westminster is pleased to offer three full time studentships and three full time fee waivers only, for three and a half years, for prospective PhD students starting in October 2023 or February 2024.
Research Scientist
Applications are invited for a Temporary 3 year post of a Research Scientist within UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy.