The Lilly Reich Grant for equality in architecture aims to support the study, dissemination and increasing the visibility of the contributions in the field of architecture which have been unduly relegated or forgotten due to discriminatory reasons. The grant also seeks to promote access in the equality of opportunities in architectural practice. This modality of the Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture is specifically addressed to the study, dissemination and visibility of Lilly Reich’s own contributions to the field of architecture. More information and the rules for applying are available on the Fundació Mies van der Rohe website.

HPA Issue 8, Roberto Fabbri (University of Monterrey, MX) and Iain Jackson (University of Liverpool, UK) Today’s general perception of Gulf cities is based on the assumption of a futuristic vision; a visionary development and a cluster of hi-tech constructions. Since the striking of oil, this ‘brave new world’ has been a testing ground for experimental, risk imbued architecture and real estate. The sudden affluence and ambition of the rulers to demonstrate progress and social advancements (sometimes expressed through outlandish ‘iconic’ designs) has certainly fired this drive. The building of cities seemed an appropriate culvert for the vast funds generated, turning what…

The V International Congress Architecture and Gender | ACTION. Feminisms and the spatialization of resistances continues the reflections organized since 2015 and mainly from southern Europe, enabling the construction of networks, research and transcontinental experiences. In this genealogy, with varied programs and themes, the previous congresses are ArquitectAs (2014, Seville), Matrices (2015, Lisbon), MORE (2017, Florence), and Fielding Architecture (2019, Brighton). The fifth edition emphasizes the political component of space and rights intersection, never forgetting the diversity of being a woman or a girl and the crossing with the current circumstances derived from the COVID-19 pandemic. In 1995, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted at IV World…

Approach to the environment has recently undergone a fundamental reconsideration. Le Corbusier’s urban visions of high-rise structures marked a radical disparity between nature and human interventions in it, which shaped the human-designed environment enormously. Many of the transformations of the urban landscape took place in the name of economic interests; cities and built environment became sites where political and ecological interests clashed. After celebrating the revolutionary and progressive outcomes of such collisions, attention to negative human impact on natural environment has come to the fore in the last decades. Practitioners started implementing into their practice knowledge of the effects of…

A special issue of Architectural Theory Review (vol. 25, no. 1), edited by Irina Davidovici (ETH Zürich) and Laila Seewang (Portland State University) The residual associations that timber architecture maintains with tradition, local culture and manual craft have long been challenged by its global ubiquity. This inner contradiction was already visible in the paradox of 1920s timber modernism: a locus of tangible tensions between universal commodity and regional culture, enmeshing mythical nation-building with entirely pragmatic rationales. Unlike steel or concrete, other materials quintessentially bound up with modernity, timber has widely been perceived as a corrective to modernism. As an organic, living material, it demands a…