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The History of Architectural History. Genesis and development of a scientific discipline between national perspectives and European models
The symposium will analyse the genesis and development of architectural historiography within the panorama of historical sciences, especially in relation to the history of art.
Research Student Symposium | History of Modern Architecture in the Light of Gender Studies
The two symposium sessions will be followed by two Keynote Lectures with researchers Anne-Laure Iger, Alessandra Bruno and Sophie Jacquemin (ULB), and professor Lucía C. Pérez Moreno (KULeuven+UniZar).
Fishing Architecture: Call for Expressions of Interest
FISH-A is a research project that sets out to trace a socioecological history of North Atlantic architecture in relation to fisheries, elucidating the relationships between marine environments and terrestrial landscapes and assessing the ecological impact of fishing constructions and the natural resources they depend upon.
Acting Institutions. Agents, Actors, and Authorities in Modern Architecture (between the 1890s and 1930s)
Beyond the conventional agents, the conference emphasises the role of institutions, interest groups, and individual actors in their historical meaning of power networks.
Assistant Professor of Architecture with a History/Theory Focus
The University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning seeks applicants for an assistant professor tenure-track appointment in the history and theory of architecture and urbanism.
JOELHO – Journal of Architectural Culture #15 – Architectural Design as a Co-Creation Process
JOELHO 15 will explore whether citizen participation in the different stages of the design process has, or may have, tangible consequences for the way the city is projected and experienced.
The architectural laboratory: amulet or shibboleth?
Is the notion of the laboratory used as a metaphor, indicating a different type of epistemological inquiry, or does it designate a distinct kind of praxis that distinguishes a lab from other ways of architectural practice through other ways of working?
STOÀ Journal n. 7, Year III, Issue 2/3, Reference
The seventh issue of Stoà will therefore question the role of references as a methodological teaching tool, through a survey of teaching practices and ongoing pedagogical experiences, which refer to methods of research, interpretation, and introjection of knowledge through the comparison with its processes and its products.
LOEWE Research Cluster Architectures of Order Fellowship Program
Research subject areas include reevaluation of the concept of the ruin as testament to life cycles of urban orders and, focusing on architectural practice, the dynamics of order | disorder in computational design.
Faculty position in Architectural Design and Heritage, EPFL
EPFL’s School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) invites applications for a faculty position in Architectural Design and Heritage. The position is open at the level of Assistant (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenured).
Book Launch: “Habsburgs going global”
In his presentation of “Habsburgs going global”, Michael Falser will focus on the urban architectural conception and the implementation of the trading post.
Critic|all V International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism
The Critic|all Conference is a place and an event. A place because it is an academic meeting point for researchers, teachers and architects interested in architectural culture and criticism, and an event because the forum that takes place during those days generates a fruitful knowledge, where the intellectual and scientific impulse is higher than the sum of the valuable individual contributions.