Call for Papers: EAHN2020 – European Architectural History Network Conference 2020

EAHN is a European organisation, but its intellectual scope is global, and the meeting welcomes proposals on any architectural historical topic. As well as topics on any aspect of the built environment, proposals on landscape and urban history are also very welcome, along with proposals dealing with the theories, methodologies and historiographies of architectural history. In accordance with EAHN´s mission, the European Architectural History Network Conference 2020 aims to increase the visibility of the discipline of architectural history, to foster transnational, interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches to the study of the built environment, and to facilitate the exchange of research in…

Call for Papers: International Call – Book “Women at the Bauhaus, the Bauhaus to the Women. For a Reconsideration of the Myth”

“Edited by Paola Ardizzola and Olimpia Niglio. The Bauhaus school, whose centenary of its birth falls this year, despite the short duration of the time span in which it was active (1919-1933), it earned a fame that today get closer to the myth, thanks above all to an extremely innovative and democratic pedagogical methodology. Yet one of the most advanced European societies of the time, which included scientists as Albert Einstein, sociologists as Georg Simmel, philosophers as Walter Benjamin, musicians as Arnold Schönberg and writers as Bertolt Brecht, was really ready to a school which offered identical opportunities to males and…

Call for Abstracts: 2nd urbanHIST Conference: “Interpreting 20th Century European Urbanism”

The conference will take place at the Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm between the 21st and the 23rdof October 2019. Convenor of the conference is Abdellah Abarkan, Professor and Head of the Department of Spatial Planning at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) in Karlskrona, Sweden. Besides the Bauhaus University Weimar (Germany), the University of Valladolid (Spain) and the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (Slovakia), BTH is one of the four urbanHIST beneficiaries. The 15 urbanHIST early stage researchers are substantially involved in the organization of this conference. The 2nd urbanHIST Conference is welcoming abstracts on the main theme: “Interpreting 2othCentury European Urbanism”….

Call for Abstracts: LDE-HERITAGE International Conference on Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals

The LDE-HERITAGE International Conference on Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals will happen between 26th and 28th November 2019 at TUDELFT, Delft, Netherlands. The Centre for Global Heritage and Development (LDEHeritage) is a collaboration of Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam. LDE-Heritage fosters an interdisciplinary approach, between sciences such as archaeology, architecture, the social sciences, the humanities, law, technology and design and urban and regional studies. LDE-Heritage goes beyond the traditional study of heritage, by focusing on how heritage relates to cultural, social, economic and environmental developments and decisions. This conference aims to discuss and debate about heritage…

Call for abstracts: International Conference CHANCES – Practices, spaces and buildings in cities’ transformation.

CHANCES is an international conference that aims to explore, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the fragile but continuous urban transformation through the effective contribution of culture, nature and technology. The aim of this conference is to provide a deeper understanding of urban transformations’ research and practices, focusing on the use, re-use, design, renovation and innovative governance and management of public spaces, urban commons and buildings. Contributions can build on reflections and studies concerning current or historical approaches that are changing or drastically changed the cities we lived in. Track 1 / DESIGN AND PRACTICES Contributions about actions, projects and design practices…

Call for Papers: Joelho nº10: Team 10: Debate and Media in Portugal and Spain

Guest Editors: Nuno Correia, Pedro Baía, Carolina B. García Estévez   For issue nº10, the journal Joelho will be published in association with the International Conference “Team Ten Farwest: Critical Revision of the Modern Movement in the Iberian Peninsula, 1953-1981”, which will be held in FAUP – Porto University School of Architecture, in 28-30 November 2019 — the year that marks the 60th anniversary of the last CIAM Meeting of 1959, in Otterlo.   For the preparation of this Conference, two preliminary meetings were held, where several contributions of Portuguese and Spanish researchers were presented — in Guimarães, December 2017, and Barcelona, June 2018. These different historiographical perspectives were centred on subjects like the protagonists, the processes, architectural works, urbanism, and representation; from…

Call for Papers: Histories of Postwar Architecture – Mass Media and the International Spread of Post-war Architecture

This monograph edition of the journal HPA attempts to map the international spread processes of architectural culture in the mass media after the Second World War, taking the period 1945-1960 as a traditional time framework. It focuses on how certain ideas about the city and contemporary architecture were diffused through periodical publications, exhibitions and conferences, by analyzing some monographic case studies in an attempt to answer some essential questions: How was an architectural and/or urban project linked to a specific framework, presented in the international context through state, professional and educational channels -be they either institutional or otherwise? How did…

Call for paper: Architecture for Art, Spaces for Exhibiting

The international conference organised as part of the 24th Ischian Meeting on Mediterranean Architecture, to be held on 19-22th september 2019 in Ischia invites architects, artists and scholars from diverse fields to propose new and innovative considerations of this theme through a call for abstracts. The event, entitled “Architecture for Art: Spaces for Exhibiting”, is the third and final appointment of a trilogy inaugurated in 2018 with the conference “Architecture for Art: Spaces for Ideas”, which was followed in 2018 the conference “Architecture for Art: Spaces for Creation”. The final objective of this series is to create the “Capri-Semaforo Verde per l´Arte” park in a…

ColloquiATe 2019

The DISEG Department of the Polytechnic University of Turin, together with ArTec, Società Scientifica dell´Architettura Tecnica are organising the conference ColloquiATe 2019 with the title: Ingegno e Costruzione nell´epoca della Complessità. A Call for Abstracts is now open! The deadlines are as follows: 18 February 2019: Submission of abstracts 4 March 2019: Notification of accepted papers 29 April 2019: Submission of full papers Topics: A_Construction History and Preservation B_Construction and Building Performance C_Design and Building Technologies The conference will take place on 25th – 28th September 2019, Turin, Italy. For more details, please visit: website In ColloquiATe 2019 Torino Comunicato you can find more information [Italian]

Call for Abstracts: APT Miami 2019 Conference

The Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) announced that submission of abstract for their upcoming conference is now open. The “APT Miami 2019 Conference” is focused on four subjects: Effects of Climate Change in Warm Weather Coastal Regions Sustainability and Conservation of Built Heritage in the Americas Conservation of Modern Heritage Across the Americas Diversity, Population Change, and Gentrification in the Preservation Dialogue The conference takes place 19th – 23rd November 2019, at InterContinental Hotel, Miami, Florida. The organizers are: Janet Bascom e: administration@apti.org p: (217) 529-9039 Vanessa Olmo e: vanessa@apti.org p: (217) 529-9039 For more information, and to submit your abstract, visit this website.