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International Symposium FUTURE / ISMS I
How have visions of the future shaped architecture, art, and cultural imagination—and what can those visions offer us today? ARCHIP – Architectural Institute in Prague and the Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, invite you to the inaugural...
Three Doctoral Positions in History and Theory of Urban Design and Architecture | ETH Zürich
The Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design (Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete) at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zürich, is looking for three doctoral candidates within the ERC Advanced Grant Project “Co-opolis: Another...
Call for Abstracts | ADH Journal #8: “Heritage Cities On Screen”
The eighth issue of ADHJ: The Journal of Architectural Design and History, titled Heritage Cities on Screen: Urban Imageries in Movies, Music Videos and TV Series, explores the representation of the city on screen, examining how its various elements and spaces are depicted across film, television, and music videos.
Call for Contributions | Edited Book: The Avant-Garde and Migration
The editorial board of the book series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter) calls for contributions to the tenth volume, which explores historical and theoretical aspects of the avant-gardes’ cross-border mobility, transcultural encounters, aesthetic disruptions, and conceptual transformations, while also considering how these can shed light on the global challenges and complex problems that characterise our time.
Sacred Spaces: Building Identities, Sharing Heritage Conference
The Department of Architecture at Yeditepe University and Centro de Estudos Nuno Portas at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, invite contributions to the 3rd International Architectural Studies Conference taking place in Porto on 9-10 September 2027 in a hybrid format.
“Translating the Rural” Exhibition + Symposium
Accompanying the exhibition “Translating the Rural” (24 September-4 December 2026) at ETH Zurich, the symposium “Mediating the Rural. From Ethnography to Design Knowledge” (9-10 November, 2026) examines how vernacular architecture, particularly wooden churches in interwar East-Central Europe, has been reinterpreted as a carrier of cultural identity, national narratives and modern architectural ideas.
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Summations from the EAHN 2026 Aarhus
Domesticating Life by Kostas Tsiambaos PhD, Associate Professor, NTUA School of Architecture The sessions of the ‘Domesticating life’ thread could be described as efforts to examine typologies, geographies and scales that go beyond the architectural, in order to...
Special Interest Group Activities at the EAHN 2026 Aarhus Biennial Conference
Photograph by Katharina Ya Ten Special Interest Group (SIG) activities took place on the first day of the EAHN 2026 Aarhus Biennial Conference on Wednesday, 17 June, bringing together established and newly constituted groups around focused conversations on thematic...
Reflections from the EAHN 2026 Aarhus
Photograph by Katharina Ya Reflections by Panagiotis Farantatos and Kasper Lægring Aarhus in June proved to be a particularly hospitable place for a conference. The weather was exceptionally good, but the compactness of the city meant that participants had little...