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CONFERENCE: Architecture_Metaphor. Frankfurt am Main, 5-7 November 2020 (online event)
Conference: Architecture_Metaphor. Frankfurt am Main, 5-7 November 2020 (online event) We commonly and ubiquitously use architectural metaphors in both everyday speech as well as various professional contexts. Yet we rarely, if at all, register this connection when we...
EVENT: Exactitude 2020: A Five College Architecture Symposium. 2-3 October 2020 (online event)
EVENT: Exactitude 2020: A Five College Architecture Symposium. 2-3 October 2020 (online event) University of Massachusetts Amherst. College of Humanities & Fine Arts - Department of Architecture The Five College Virtual Architecture Symposium Exactitude brings...
JOB: Tenure-Track Faculty, History & Theory of Architecture. Princeton University School of Architecture
Job: Tenure-Track Faculty, History & Theory of Architecture. Princeton University School of Architecture The School of Architecture at Princeton University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in the area of the history and theory of...
CfP: Deep City – Climate crisis, democracy and the digital. Lausanne, 24-27 March 2021
CfP: Deep City - Climate crisis, democracy and the digital. Lausanne 24-27 March 2021 2020(21) International Latsis Symposium - Open Forum Big data, smart systems, machine learning – it is inevitable that these new technologies will change the way we study, build and...
CfP: Architectural Archives. Bitácora Arquitectura Journal, issue 46
Call for Papers: Architectural Archives. Bitácora Arquitectura Journal, issue 46 The current pandemic has shown us that we live in a world that functions digitally, online; it has made clear the need to have access to digital tools. In times of isolation and social...
AWARD: 2012 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award – The Vernacular Architecture Forum
Award: 2012 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award - The Vernacular Architecture Forum Call for Nominations The Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, named after the founding president of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, is awarded annually to the book that has made the most...
JOB: Associate or Full Professor – Art, Architecture, Material and/or Visual Culture. The University of Chicago
Job: Associate or Full Professor - Art, Architecture, Material and/or Visual Culture. The University of Chicago The University of Chicago: Humanities Division: Department of Art History In an initiative to broaden its methodological and conceptual coverage, the...
JOB: Assistant Professor – Arts, Architecture, Material and/or Visual Culture. The University of Chicago
JOB: Assistant Professor - Arts, Architecture, Material and/or Visual Culture. The University of Chicago Humanities Division: Department of Art History In an initiative to broaden its methodological and conceptual coverage, the Department of Art History at the...
EVENT: Open City Documentary Festival. London (online), 9-15 September 2020
EVENT: Open City Documentary Festival. London (online), 9-15 September 2020 The Open City Documentary Festival runs online this year, from 9th to 15th September. The festival features some specific Architecture and Urban Studies-focused programs. Films start from £3...
EVENT: Live Roundtable: Museum Exhibition Design: Histories and Futures. Brighton (online), 11 September 2020
Event: Live Roundtable: Museum Exhibition Design: Histories and Futures. Brighton (online), 11 September 2020 You can join to celebrate the Museum Exhibition Design: Histories and Futures conference in a free live closing plenary on Friday 11 September, 4-5pm (BST),...
EVENT: Online Panel: Hagia Sophia: Perspectives from Cultural Heritage. Cornell University, 19 September 2020
Event: Online Panel: Hagia Sophia: Perspectives from Cultural Heritage. Cornell University, 19 September 2020 This panel is organized to bring together scholars and analysts to comment on the recent conversion of the Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque from the...
JOB: PhD position: Magnificent Architecture: Giving Form to Inherent Greatness in Fifteenth-Century Antwerp, Rouen en Strasbourg. Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Job: PhD position: Magnificent Architecture: Giving Form to Inherent Greatness in Fifteenth-Century Antwerp, Rouen en Strasbourg. Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) The project studies the reception of the Aristotelian concept of magnificence in Antwerp, Rouen and...