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Workshop Transforming Hospital Architecture
The workshop focuses on the hospital as both object and hyper-object of architecture and design, in the light of its historical and contemporary transformations, from the scale of the bed to the scale of the city.
Reconceiving urban planning strategies and cities after the big oil crisis of the 1970s: New challenges and the new mobility and ecology turn
The “new mobility turn” goes hand in hand with the intention to explore urban planning strategies that aim to contribute to a significant reduction in the use of individual car, and to an increase of the use of public transportation in our everyday life.
Job Openings at The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo
The Faculty of Engineering is looking for candidates with a PhD in engineering or an equivalent area in the sciences or a related discipline, or a terminal degree in architecture.
Acting Institutions: Agents, Actors, and Authorities in Modern Architecture (between the 1890s and 1930s)
The objective of this conference is to expand the field of architectural historiography by adding largely under-represented institutional actors as well as their agencies and practices to the common narratives of modern architecture.
Australasia and the Global Turn in Architectural History
A symposium exploring the expansion of the new edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture that encompass Australasia.
Deadline Extended: Architectural Histories Editorial Workshop
This workshop will provide a platform where participants are able to deeply communicate with editors and reviewers from Architectural Histories and EAHN on how to enrich their reach, diversify their content, and expand their media presence. It aspires to support emerging scholars to contribute to more inclusive cultures in architectural histories and their academic publishing outlets.
Architectural Design Competitions in Europe from the 15th to 21st centuries
If the principal milestones of the history of 20th century international competitions are firmly established today, historiography struggles to produce syntheses concerning national competitions with a few rare exceptions, most notably the 19th century which has remained largely unexplored to this day.
Architecture and Real Estate: Historical Perspectives
This international conference proposes to discuss the processes and products of real estate development by foregrounding them as objects of architectural and urban history.
Seminar East/South. A session with Simona Gîrleanu and Elidor Mëhilli about architectural exchanges in Central and Eastern Europe
Within the space of Central and Eastern Europe, how relevant is a division between a North and a South?
Postcolonial interruptions? Decolonisation and global dis:connectivity
global dis:connect promotes dialogue between scholarship and art as co-equal means to approach dis:connective phenomena — interruptions, absences and detours of globalisation.
Borders, Mobilities and Landscapes. Mapping railway infrastructure in (post)colonial Africa
An exhibition with spatial investigations of railways in Africa, produced by students in the course of master dissertations and a research seminar
International Expositions: Looking to the Past, Seeing the Future
The symposium has range of speakers from Australia to Argentina with topics from Environment to Empire.