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Call for Papers: archimaera #9: The Rear View
Call for Papers: archimaera #9: The Rear View "Man walks in a straight line because he has a goal and knows where he is going."– Le Corbusier's quote only knows one direction. The destination lies ahead – but what is on the rear side? The destination is the planned,...
CfP: Precarious housing, health and wellbeing. Global Discourse, volume 11, issue 3
Call for papers: Precarious housing, health and wellbeing. Global Discourse, volume 11, issue 3 Edited by Kelly Greenop (k.greenop1@uq.edu.au) and Johanna Brugman Alvarez (j.brugmanalvarez@uq.edu.au), School of Architecture, The University of Queensland Housing is...
CfP: The Housing Question of Tomorrow, Nordic Journal of Architectural Research NJAR
Call for Papers: The Housing Question of Tomorrow, Nordic Journal of Architectural Research NJAR Editors: Daniel Movilla Vega (Umea University), Ola Nylander (Chalmers University of Technology) and Magnus Ronn (Chalmers University of Technology) Over the past 40...
CfP: Architecture and Democratization: Overlooked witnesses to Allied intervention in occupied Germany after 1945. Bamberg, 4-6 June 2020
Call for Papers: Architecture and Democratization: Overlooked witnesses to Allied intervention in occupied Germany after 1945. Bamberg, 4-6 June 2020 Chair in Heritage Conservation, Bamberg University In the reform and reconstruction of Germany after World War II,...
CfP: Identities and the Cities: Urban Transformations, Transition and Change in Urban Image Construction. Venice, 24-25 January 2020
Call for Papers: Identities and the Cities: Urban Transformations, Transition and Change in Urban Image Construction. Venice, 24-25 January 2020 As part of The 8th Global Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions Again Urban image construction is a reflection,...
CfP: How Women Build. Manchester, 26-27th June 2020
Call for papers: How Women Build. Manchester, 26-27 June 2020 A two-day conference, Wikithon Event and Exhibition at the Manchester School of Architecture Supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Women’s History Network Keynote Speakers:...
CfP: The Power of New Urban Tourism: Markets, Representations and Contestations
Call for Book Chapters: The Power of New Urban Tourism: Markets, Representations and Contestations Editors: Sybille Frank, Claudia Jürgens, Claus Müller, Anna Laura Raschke, Kristin Wellner Since urban space is represented as an assemblage of important sights, buzzing...
CfP: Media Building: Architecture, Communications and the Built Environment, from Fleet Street to Facebook. University of Salford, MediaCityUK, 8-9 July 2020
Call for Papers: Media Building: Architecture, Communications and the Built Environment, from Fleet Street to Facebook. University of Salford, MediaCityUK, 8-9 July 2020 In 1702 Elizabeth Mallett founded the Daily Courant at her modest bookshop on Fleet Street in...
CfP: Instinct of Ornament, Faces 77
Call for Papers: Instinct of Ornament, Faces 77 In connection to its 77th number, FACES magazine launches a peer-reviewed call for papers on the subject of decor, its use today in architecture and its relation to history. Henri Focillon talked about the geometries of...
EVENT: Symposium: Packed, Unpacked, and Adopted. Garden Cities Reconsidered. Birmingham, 14-15 May 2020
Symposium: Packed, Unpacked, and Adopted. Garden Cities Reconsidered. Birmingham, 14-15 May 2020 In 1901, in Bournville, Birmingham, there took place a conference of the Garden City Association. The event, benefiting from the status of Bournville as the model town of...
CfP: The Terms of Habitation: Re-theorizing the Architecture of Housing. Jerusalem and Haifa, 20-23 April 2020
Call for Papers: The Terms of Habitation: Re-theorizing the Architecture of Housing. Jerusalem and Haifa, 20-23 April 2020 IIAS Jerusalem and Technion, Haifa, Israel Convened by the Research Group “Retheorizing the Architecture of Housing as Grounds for Research and...
EVENT: SAHGB Annual Lecture and Awards Ceremony 2019. London, 9 December 2019
Event: SAHGB Annual Lecture and Awards Ceremony 2019. London, 9 December 2019 'Why New Towns?', Dr Elain Harwood 6.00 pm, Monday 9 December 2019 Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, University College London Booking is now open for The Society of...