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Adaptive Reuse. A theoretical glossary
The editors are delighted to extend an invitation to scholars interested in contributing a short essay on the topic of Adaptive Reuse in Architecture. Selected submissions will be included as entries in a “glossary” featured within a pioneering book that aims to explore diverse theoretical approaches.
Health Equity in Architecture at the Intersection of Teaching, Archive and Curating
The panel will discuss how architectural design education can bring attention to the issue of health equity, its historical background, and gaps in the field by turning to insights from historical documentation, archiving, and curatorial practices and methods.
Monuments and Sites de-colonial! Methods and Strategies of Dealing with the Architectural Heritage of the German Colonial Era
Monuments and Sites de-colonial! will be dealing with the architectural relics of the German colonial era and investigating post-colonial strategies of appropriation and critical communication regarding these buildings. In addition to references to pre-colonial legacies, the focus lies primarily on the period of the German colonial era from around 1880 to 1920.
Minding her Business: Women, Architecture, and Design
Women influenced the global dissemination of modern architecture and design through a range of entrepreneurial roles. Proposals are invited for papers that address these too often overlooked activities.
Art History-Architecture-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
The Art History Department of Emory University seeks to expand and diversify its department through the hire of a full-time tenure track position in Architectural Design and History/Theory at the rank of Assistant Professor. T
4th International Conference of the Association of Architecture and Urban Planning Historians
The environmental approach encompasses everything from the smallest and most specific to the broadest and most generic, and in its ambition to embrace architecture at large, it also covers the city, which is as much a powerful economic, political, and social construct as it is a complex network of ecosystems: the quintessential environmental invention of humans.
Folger Institute Long-term Fellowships
Each year the Folger Institute awards research fellowships to create a high-powered, multidisciplinary community of inquiry.
The Churches and the City
This initiative proposes a critical review of the figure and role of parish complexes to an update on the spatial articulation, management and planning models for parish complexes suited to the conditions of contemporary cities.
Sculpting Harmony
The digital exhibition features more than 150 models, sketches, and archival photographs documenting the concert hall’s development.
8th International Conference on Contemporary Religious Architecture: The Client
A closer look at the reasons that led to the final result -unfortunate or not- will shed light on relationships that have marked contemporary religious architecture, and from which we can always draw valid lessons for the future.
Exhibiting in Slovenia III
You are kindly invited to participate in the third edition of the symposium dedicated to the practice of exhibiting art, architecture, and design in Slovenia.
Revista de Arquitectura 26: Memories of the Ground
Greek architect Dimitris Pikionis designed the archaeological site in Philopappou Hill in Athens between 1954 and 1958. The general idea of the design was laid out by marking paths and selecting a series of points related to orientation and views. Arranged according...