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Architectural Theory Review vol 27. no. 2. Untimely Teachers: Recovering Postmodernism’s Anachronic Pedagogies
This issue of Architectural Theory Review invites contributions that investigate anachronic pedagogical experiments, the untimeliness of which is less concerned with the aesthetic shock of the old as provoked by the 1975 MoMA exhibition “The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts,” and more with imaginary didactic dialogues staged around the work of neglected luminaries.
Environmental Design Archives Research Fellowships
The Environmental Design Archives (EDA) is pleased to offer two short-term research fellowships to support scholars conducting interdisciplinary and innovative research on-site at the EDA, located in Berkeley, California.
eden-eden. Renato Rizzi
The exhibition presents about two hundred gypsum models related to thirty projects by Renato Rizzi.
Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture
A central starting point for the theme of this conference is how the selection of references is driven by interests and if they are thus ideologically constructed more than anything in order to comply with current social demands on architecture.
Listening In: Conversations on Architectures, Cities, and Landscapes 1700-1900
Taking the art of conversation, integral as both practice and form to the period in Western thought, and repurposing it to dismantle the exclusivity of historiography, this conference calls for contributions which bring women into dialogue with others.
Assistant Professor in Architectural Design and the Humanities
The School of Architecture at Dalhousie University invites applications for a tenure stream Assistant Professor in Architectural Design and the Humanities, whose teaching and research focus is architectural history, theory and criticism.
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Mellon Program in Race, Place, and Equity
The University of Virginia seeks an emerging scholar whose transformative research is focused on the intersections of race, social justice, and equity in the built environment and who might contribute to broader efforts to bolster the school’s intellectual capacity and curriculum in these directions.
Constructing Coloniality: British Imperialism and the Built Environment
This three-day conference is hosted by The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) in collaboration with UCL and the London School of Architecture.
Renaissance Architecture and Theory Scholars
The conference co-convenors seek proposals for 20-minute papers on topics in the history of Renaissance architecture and theory, broadly defined.
Adaptive Reuse: Design Transformations for Community Healthcare
The 2023 Epidemic Urbanism Initiative Design Competition will focus on adaptive reuse, inviting submissions that consider how pre-existing vacant, underused, or currently used sites, structures, and spaces can be transformed into healthcare settings with thoughtful, sustainable design interventions.
Assistant or Associate Professor of Architecture
Virginia Tech’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC) seeks a versatile and committed faculty member who will contribute to its unique educational environment.
Educating the Interior Designer
This conference invites contributions that address the education of the interior designer throughout the twentieth century.