Call for Papers: Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII, Historia del Arte – “The Overflowing Object. Immersive Spaces and Multi-Sensorial Strategies in Art”

Guest Editors: Eduard Cairol & Tomas Macsotay (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Revista Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII, Historia del Arte (ETFVII) is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the themed dossier for the upcoming issue (2021) is now open. “There is nothing particularly novel about the claim that contemporary art has been characterised, since the time of the avant-garde, by its tendency to go beyond the limits between artistic media, but that it has also —perhaps as an outcome of, among other factors, its experimental vocation— been led by desire to integrate, in a single and unique…

Conserving Concrete Virtual Event

Live Roundtable Discussion for the Launch of Conservation Principles for Concrete of Cultural Significance Join the Getty Conservation Institute for this free virtual event bringing together a multidisciplinary group of professionals to discuss the importance of conserving historic concrete and the importance of using a sound conservation methodology to guide practice. December 2, 2020 10:00 to 11:30 am (Los Angeles time) via Zoom Free, Advanced Registration Required Background Over the last two hundred years, concrete has been used to produce a remarkably rich and diverse legacy of buildings and structures increasingly recognized for their cultural significance. With growing recognition of this…

Call for ideas: “Landscapes of Care”, European Future Architecture Platform programme

“From Fundació Mies van der Rohe, as members of the pan-European platform of museums, festivals and architectural promoters Future Architecture Platform, we would like to encourage you to submit your proposal to the call for ideas to become part of the 2021 programme Landcapes of Care. This call acts as a multidisciplinary platform for international exchange to echo and give visibility to the ideas of emerging professionals and thinkers through prestigious institutions, museums, galleries, publishers, biennials and festivals. This year’s edition, under the name “Landscapes of Care” will explore the dynamics of solidarity and auto-organisation, networks of trust on a neigbourhood…

Online debate event series: “Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development”

Docomomo Israel is inviting you to participate in the international online debate event series “Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development”. Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development The international online debate event series “Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development” focuses on how the needs of conservation as well as development requirements can be managed in the urban context. How can historically developed urban fabrics/structures or singular buildings withstand the pressure for change from e.g. the real estate industry or housing demands? What can be done by the City’s administration, politicians and society…

Modernism Is Frozen – Urbanism and Architecture under/after Covid-19

HOUSING FOR ISOLATING We have online discussion for The Next Urbanism and Architecture Under/After COVID-19. This series is subtitled “Is Modernism Frozen?” and the discussions were held with titles “HOW DO YOU MAP MODERNISM UNDER/AFTER COVID-19” and “TRAFFIC SEEKS ANOTHER WAY”. Now we are going to have the third public panel discussion titled “HOUSING FOR ISOLATING” and you are invited to participate. Panelists:Zara Ferreira (Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon)Johannes Widodo (National University of Singapore)Moderator:Takayuki Suzuki (Wuhan University, China) It is planned as a ZOOM meeting at 7pm in Japan, 10am in GMT, 90 minutes to two hours, on 12…

Macau Master Plan: What vision and what rules?

The Rui Cunha Foundation and the Docomomo Macau is inviting you to participate in the Round Table under the theme “Macau Master Plan: What vision and what rules?”, [Plano Director de Macau: Que visão e que regras?] at the FRC Gallery, Thursday, November 26 at 6:30 pm. “The Master Plan, presented for public consultation in September and October 2020, comes after several decades in which Macao has been the subject of several urbanization outbreaks managed with a laissez-faire attitude, sometimes accompanied by Detailed Plans for new landfills , but always in the absence of holistic planning instruments that address social,…

Call for Papers: Joelho n. 13 – Memory, Memorabilia and the Making

Joelho – Journal of Architectural Culture In the new time consciousness of modernity, Jürgen Habermas tells us, historical memory gives place to an ahistorical use of the past, which explains the abstract language of avant-garde aesthetics. Suffice to think of authors such as Picasso and Le Corbusier and in the relationships their work establishes with the past. In their collections particulières, memorabilia ranged from vernacular to primitive and classical artefacts, the operative value of which rested in their aesthetic qualities, independently of their place in the continuum of history. The past was a source of raw material, opening new conceptual…

Call for Papers: Architecture and Endurance

EAHN is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the thematic conference Architecture and Endurance (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 30th September – 2nd October 2021) is open. “Endurance is a state of surviving, remaining alive; the ability to continue a given task; the power of withstanding hardship. Its original meaning implies continued existence and ability to last. As such it has implications not only for how architecture is conceptualized but also for the ways within which architectural historiography is conceived. In recent years, there is a tendency in architectural historiography to go deep into the specific…

Call for Papers: Trangression – A new paradigm?

EAHN is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the conference TRANSGRESSION – A NEW PARADIGM? (Rennes, France, 17-21 November 2021) is now open. Proposals for papers should be uploaded to the conference website before the 25th April 2021. “The past few years have witnessed a proliferation of transgressive manifestations in the architectural field, echoing a propensity to dismiss rules and norms in many social and political circumstances unfolding around us. Transgression was, however, always part of our world and of our way of functioning, presenting a centrifugal force opposing the regulating laws of order – a quest…

International Congress “Thinking about the city we want”

“Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad wants to promote a space for reflection in Spain as a prelude to the celebration of the VI International Congress of Architecture and Society. For this, Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad proposes the meeting “Thinking about the city we want” in which, based on the particular vision of experts from various disciplines and the exchange of ideas and reflections, we will be able to establish a perspective on the city and architecture that is very necessary at this time . On Thursday, November 26, 2020, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., a meeting with limited capacity and…