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First Symposium on the Architecture of US Military Bases in Spain
The physical presence of the US Navy and Air Force on the Iberian Peninsula forever changed not only Spanish/American relations, but also deeply impacted Spain’s economy, infrastructure and culture.
Sophia Journal Vol.8 – Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage
Editors invite theoretical and field work where architectural photography and filmmaking are descriptive, analytical and interpretive, communicating original perceptions and new understandings of modern architecture and landscapes.
Health & Equity in Global Architectural Practice (Epidemic Urbanism)
A panel on urgent questions for global architectural practice provoked by the simultaneous epidemics of COVID-19, inequity, and climate change
Organizing Change Toward Health Equity (Epidemic Urbanism)
A panel centered on critical dialogues about the roles that organizations can play in educating the public on the role of the built environment on public health.
Humanities Bulletin (HB), Vol. 5, No. 2
The journal’s aim is to bring together different international scholars, in order to promote the dialogue between cultures, ideas and new academic researches.
The Architecture of Zvi Hecker. Italian projects
An important opportunity to see all of Zvi Hecker’s Italian projects in Pescara, Italy, on display at the Maison des Arts by Fondazione Pescarabruzzo.
Book Conversation: Exactitude: On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture
With “Exactitude,” contributors examined the ever-increasing demand for precision in architecture at a time when the parameters of the profession are shifting.
Fabrications, Vol. 33, No. 2: Trans-Tasman Trips and Tropes
This special issue looks from 1850 to the present to see how history might be written against the grain of the broad nationalist histories of both Australia and New Zealand by looking at the later period when those histories are dominant.
Getty Conservation Guest Scholars Program
Guest Scholar grants are for established scholars, or individuals who have attained distinction in their fields.
Towards new summers: Past, present and future of holiday camps for children
The purpose of this international conference is to discuss the current research on the history of holiday camps in Europe between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular consideration of contemporary reuse and restoration strategies of this architectural heritage.
Reconstructed cities, cities under reconstruction
Taking as a starting point the cities of Brest and Dresden, whose histories reveal common trajectories, the project aims to offer a new perspective that updates the knowledge and historiography of urban history, particularly that of reconstruction.
The Architecture of Copies | Copies of Architecture
The confrerence aims to revisit the borders between the copy and the prototype, acts of imitation and of variation, and to examine the knowledge production and preservation processes involved in the act of architectural replication and other attendant phenomena.