Dennis Sharp CICA Awards for Architectural Criticism 2020

The International Committee of Architectural Critics CICA is pleased to announce an invitation to publishers, editors, curators and authors to submit their publications for consideration for the 10th CICA Awards 2020 by 30th November 2019. Award winners will be announced during the UIA XXVII World Congress of Architecture to be held in Rio de Janeiro from July 19th to 23rd, 2020. The Awards fall into four categories: “Bruno Zevi CICA Book Award” For published books on architectural criticism, theory and history “Pierre Vago CICA Journalism Award” For an article of architectural criticism for individual, institutional or society magazines, newspapers and…

Student website with travel report to the 15th International Docomomo Conference 2018

From August 18th to September 1st, 2018, a group of eleven students discovered the modern architecture of Central Europe (Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia) under the direction of France Vanlaethem, Professor Emeritus of UQÀM and President of Docomomo Québec; and Manuela Senese, Lecturer at UQÀM – Université du Québec à Montréal and member of Docomomo Québec. The purpose of the trip was to attend the 15th Docomomo International Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and meet with representatives of organizations as well as professionals working to protect and safeguard modern architecture along the way. Now, they have created a website, with the support…

Case milanesi. 1923-1973. Cinquant’anni di architettura residenziale a Milano

“The interest in the golden years of the Milanese architecture, the period leading up to the first experiments of Ca ‘Bruzio by Giovanni Muzio to the last works of the Modern in the Seventies, is constantly growing. Architecture lovers and researchers are turning to Milan in search of the works of Terragni, Ponti, Portaluppi, Lingeri, Asnago and Vender, Figini and Pollini, Hunting Dominion, Buttons, Gardella, BBPR, Zanuso, Magistretti and many other architects open-air museum of the twentieth century. Yet there was not a book that in about 80 boards redesign planimetry, plant and building prospect, so as to capture both…

Australia Modern: Architecture, Landscape and Design

This volume was motivated by the aim to create a beautiful, comprehensive and accessible book about Australian Modern design and architecture.  It features 100 significant site examples by Australia’s most revered architects, rich archival imagery and expert essays exploring how modernism has shaped Australian society. From the Sydney Opera House and the National Gallery of Victoria to cutting-edge homes across the country, the pervasive presence of modernism is inescapable in Australia. Led by the likes of Robin Boyd, Harry Seidler and Walter Burley Griffin, modernist architects and designers set out to rebuild at all scales, from vast infrastructure projects, to…

Poética Urbana. A cidade da palavra literária [Urban Poetics: The city of the literary word]

“The image of the city, understood as a universal idea or as a concrete place in the world, from the urban literature, that is, from the set of texts that have an aesthetic intention related to the urban context, is the starting point for the author of this book. Marta Llorente, lecturer of the 2016 edition of the Conferences Marques da Silva Architect, proposes to do in Urban Poetics. “The city of the literary word” is an approximation to the relations between literature and inhabited space centered in the literary tradition in Castilian language, but without fail establishing its relations…

Call for papers: 9th International congress on White Architecture (CIAB 9)

La Cátedra Blanca of Valencia has scheduled the celebration at the Universitat Politècnica of València of the 9th International Congress on White Architecture (9º Congreso Internacional de Arquitectura Blanca) on March 2020. In each edition of the Congress a selection of the best international architecture studios that are working with concrete as the main subject of their projects will be exhibited through a series of conferences. Likewise, the presented projects respond to diverse economies, locations and functions, but all share the common denominator of having been conceived in concrete. The communications of the 9th International Congress of White Architecture (9º Congreso Internacional de Arquitectura Blanca, CIAB 9) …

Call for Abstracts: 3rd National Congress of Interior Architecture “Building the contemporary dwelling. New themes and methods of the project”

The 3rd National Congress of Interior Architecture, “Building the contemporary dwelling. New themes and methods of the project” will be held in Naples, on January 17 and 18 of 2020, at the Dipartimento di Architettura dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. “In May 2005 Adriano Cornoldi organized the first national convention dedicated to the disciplines of interiors in Venice. The questions are still current and highlight the role of a discipline whose task is to give material form to human dwelling needs, offering concrete answers to real problems. The 3rd conference, dedicated to Cornoldi in the decade of his death, wants to…

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”….