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gta edition, volume 3
gta edition is a peer-reviewed series of short monographs that take a fresh and provocative look at seemingly well-known aspects of architectural theory, thus engaging in contemporary historiography and the production of theory in architecture.
Agora II: (Un)common Precedents
Often, early design years include pedagogical exercises in building surveys and recording. Yet, design influence for architects can also expand beyond buildings.
Dismantling the canon through multidisciplinary encounters: the cases of diplomatic legations in the city
This session aims to confront narratives about diplomatic spatial settings that involve those voices that current historiographies have so far neglected.
Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment
Portrayal of computational infrastructures as neutral solutions that open participation in design hides the social, political, and environmental entanglements involved in their creation and expansion.
Restoration and Promotion of Architectural Monuments in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and First Half of the 20th Centuries
This international workshop aims to identify some of the methods, actors, ideas and principles behind restoration of architectural monuments and their promotion to a wider public on the territories of the former Russian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires and their successor states.
ENTANGLED MILIEUS: Co-Constituting a Shared Futurity (slow, un-disciplined conference)
The upcoming conference will investigate how architecture and landscape architecture as a material-discursive practice profoundly acts upon these thick surfaces and critical zones.
Deadline Extended: Prospectives: The Algorithmic Form
The new issue will explore the use of algorithms in architecture, how their use is evolving and progressing and the contribution they make to architecture and the built environment.
Renaissance Conference
These conferences offer young scholars the occasion to explore and discuss their different research methods and lines of inquiry, and give a comprehensive view of the many different emerging research approaches to architectural history and to the analysis of the relations between architecture and the other visual arts in the Renaissance.
Learning from the Pandemic: Leveraging Architectural Education Toward Equity, Health, and Resilience
In this session, Deans of five Schools of Architecture across the United States will respond to a range of timely questions for architectural education provoked by the simultaneous epidemics of COVID-19, racism and racial inequity, and climate change.
Document Fever: Encounters with the architecture of the *colonial architecture archive
This symposium adds to the work on *colonial networks of planning consultants since the 2000s and specifically to the work from critical studies and the social sciences developed in the 2010s on *colonial exchanges between Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, US, UK, Nigeria, South Africa, Singapore, The Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Ghana, Germany, Poland, Romania, and Belgium.
Towards New Summers: Past, Present and Future of Holiday Camps for Children in Europe
The purpose of this call for abstracts is to collect and discuss the current research on the history of holiday camps in Europe between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular consideration of the contemporary reuse and restoration strategies of this architectural heritage.
Cuadernos de la Alhambra, Issue 51
Cuadernos de la Alhambra is a scientific journal in the field of heritage research and diffusion; it was founded in 1965 and is free to access and free of charge.