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3 PhD and 3 Postdoc Positions ‘Construction History: Above and Beyond’ (UGent, VUB, ULB)
The EOS research project will set up a dialogue (in terms of sources, methodologies, concepts and cognitive interests) between Construction History and three other fields of history, namely Colonial History, Legal History and Planning History.
Liberated Histories & Imperial Afterlives: Architecture, Urbanism, Heritage, & Hybridity in Post-Colonial Conditions
The conference seeks studies exploring the ways that architectural and urban history can serve as tools in the recovery of histories that have been erased, denied, or otherwise attacked in the course of imperial conquest and colonization.
Scholarship Fellow, Technical University of Darmstadt: Build Back Better
The scholarship is awarded for Subproject II, which evaluates the significance of monuments and cultural assets for disaster management since 1945, focusing on earthquakes in Italy and the former Yugoslavia.
Beyond housing. Transnational programs and speculative developments
Organizers seek to establish the common grounds of housing aid/assistance schemes and the subsequent small-to-big scale speculative developments experienced in countries which received any kind of foreign aid/assistance during the second half of the 20th century beyond economic/political/geographical limitations.
Journal of Architectural Design and History: Heritage Cities as Project
The first issue of the journal aims at investigating the visions and the multiple forms of the project as (transformation, enhancement, exhibition, …) intervention in World Heritage Cities.
rita_ journal issue 18
The open Call For Papers is in Spanish or Portuguese and is open to teachers, graduate students, or professionals with a master’s or doctoral degree.
Writing Alternative Histories of Disaster Relief: Architecture and Humanitarianism
The session sets out to correct the canonical histories of disaster relief that are largely dominated by the narratives of UN interventions, instead exploring the collaboration between architects and humanitarian organizations, such as the League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS), the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and the International Rescue Committee (IRC), whose contributions have largely been overshadowed by the UN.
The Gift of Architecture: Spaces of Global Socialism and their Afterlives
By focusing on their continuous appropriation by inhabitants and users in Africa and Asia, this conference and the resulting publication will offer a more differentiated genealogy of global urbanisation and its architecture.
The garden, its pavilions and aviaries
L’art des jardins dans les civilisations de l’Europe et de l’Asie orientale
Canon(s) and Icon(s): re-wondering a North-South contamination
This edited book aims at confronting the rhetoric(s) on multiple exchanges between Nordic European countries and Southern ones, also beyond their European boundaries including Global South, spanning from traditional methods of architectural research to the more experimental and artistic formats.
Collegiate Assistant Professor of Architectural History
The Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago is now accepting applications from historians of architecture or the built environment for a four-year, non-renewable, postgraduate appointment as a Collegiate Assistant Professor.
Geoffrey James: Social Spaces — Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana
Thu 30.06.2022 – Thu 28.07.2022, daily 10:00-19:00 The famous Canadian photographer Geoffrey James explores the legacy of Jože Plečnik and his transformation of Ljubljana as a Gesamtkunstwerk. James reveals the social and sensual aspects of Plečnik's work, which are...