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Her: Introducing Women Writing Architecture c.1800
Reading Her presents 9 x 5 min portraits of women and their writings that we conceive as relevant to architectural histories.
Rewriting the Mediality of Architecture Under the Crisis Condition
The issue examines the complex sets of relationships and contexts that shape architecture’s mediality as a result of the rising instability in the constitution of the urban during ongoing turbulent environmental, societal and cultural transformations.
The Muqarnas Pavilion – New South
Muquarnas is a collaboration that aims to re-establish construction innovation as central to contemporary Islamic architecture.
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.
Para-Colonial – Colonial – Post-Colonial: Influences and Transactions in the Architecture of Oceania (1840-1990)
The contributions of this conference attempt to link their concrete architectural case studies of buildings, ensembles and urbanist projects with reflections on the influences of and transactions between locals and foreigners, colonials and colonised, and their changing allegiances, even across changing political powers.
Manual of Therapeutic Architecture
The Manual of Therapeutic Architecture aims to: elaborate a history of using architecture as a therapeutic tool in health crises; evaluate the characteristics of spatial solutions; establish a reference for any other form of distancing that a future epidemic will make inevitable.
Women as Builders, Designers and Critics of the Built Environment, 1200 – 1800
The edited volume will recover women’s agency within the built environment in the urban and rural setting from the perspective of distinct and often overlapping roles women have played
The Architecture Exhibition Operating as a Cross-Cultural Contact Zone
This thematic issue engages with the methodological challenge of writing a global history of architecture through the lens of architecture exhibitions operating as cross-cultural ‘contact zones’.
Bruno Zevi Prize 2022
The Bruno Zevi Foundation annually holds an international competition to award a prize for a historical-critical essay offering an original analysis of an architectural work, theme or architect of the past or present.
Ardeth #11 – KEY WORDS
This call for papers seeks to bring together contributions from the various disciplines involved in architectural design, with the aim of instigating an open discussion on the theme of key words through different kinds of experience and research.
Clara. Intermediality in Architecture. Representation and the Aesthetics of Reflexivity
The journal Clara invites proposals for its next issue on the contemporary intermedial condition of architecture.
UAAC-AAUC Conference 2022
This session welcomes paper presentations from all periods and latitudes, including those recent experiences under COVID-19 pandemic circumstances, which have dealt with hybrid practices of analogue and digital methodologies.