Call for Nominations: SAH Publication Awards

Docomomo International is pleased to share the call for nominations for the SAH Publication Awards. Every year, the Society of Architectural Historians presents awards that recognize the most distinguished publications in architectural history, urban history, landscape history, preservation, and architectural exhibition catalogues. SAH also presents the Founders’ Award for an outstanding JSAH article written by an emerging scholar in the previous two years. The deadline to submit nominations for the 2022 SAH Publication Awards is July 31, 2021. Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award The Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award was established in 1949 to recognize annually the most distinguished work of…

Call for Applications: PhD Positions: X Agendas for Architecture Dissertation Proposals. Department of Architecture, Delft University of Technology

Docomomo International is pleased to share the call for applications for PhD positions: X Agendas for Architecture Dissertation Proposals, of the Department of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. “Under the auspices of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (Delft University of Technology), the Department of Architecture invites PhD dissertation proposals to help expand its doctoral portfolio. We invite all interested academic and/or professional candidates who are qualified to pursue PhD-level research work aligned with the Department’s research agenda. The research program of the Department consists of 10 Research Lines, and offers a rich and…

Call for Papers: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanismo ZARCH. Issue 18: “Women, Feminist Practices and Alternative Practitioners in Architecture”

Docomomo Interantional is pleased to share the call for papers for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanismo ZARCH, Issue 18: “Women, Feminist Practices and Alternative Practitioners in Architecture”, with the editors Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno (Associate Professor, Zaragoza University, Spain) and Ann E. Komara (Professor, University of Colorado-Denver, USA). “In contrast to other types of studies on women and architecture in which biography predominates, this special issue seeks to delve into how the different situations in which women have carried out their work can be a device for opening up new fields of activity, encouraging creativity and offering a…

Call for Papers: Architectural Theory Review vol. 26, no. 1. Terms and Conditions: Financialized Space

Docomomo Interantional shares the call for papers for the journal Architectural Theory Review vol. 26, no. 1. , “Terms and Conditions: Financialized Space”, edited by Maren Koehler (University of Sydney) and Jasper Ludewig (University of Newcastle). “This issue of Architectural Theory Review investigates the relation between finance capital and architecture. In particular, we seek contributions that explore previously overlooked situations in which the terms and conditions of finance have had spatial and architectural effects. In this way, the issue aligns itself with the argument recently reiterated by Sara Stevens and Lauren Jacobi, among others, that spaces of finance – banks,…

Call for Papers: in_bo vol. 13, no. 7. Sacred Pedagogy: The Sacred in Architectural and Design Education

Docomomo International would like to share the call for papers for the open-access online journal in_bo vol. 13, no. 7. titled “Sacred Pedagogy: The Sacred in Architectural and Design Education”. “Any design pedagogy implies the reconsideration of the relationship between the sacred and the religious. Today, spaces of rituals risk becoming themes of specialized design — as stadiums for example, where architecture cannot ignore the rules and the form of the games that take place in them. Also, divisive religious beliefs highlight the fragility and fragmentation of contemporary society. The expansion of the sacred beyond religions underscores the theme of…

Call for Papers: edA, Special Issue 2021. “Totalitarian Architecture and Urban Planning: History and Legacy”

Docomomo International would like to share the call for papers for the ESEMPI DI ARCHITETTURA International Journal, special issue 2021 “Totalitarian Architecture and Urban Planning: History and Legacy”, with the guest editors Claudia Lamberti and Justyna Zdunek-Wielgołaska. “Totalitarianism is universally known as a political system that exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life. In this kind of regime, propaganda is a fundamental aspect of the maintenance of power and consensus. Architecture and town planning have the potential to support and promote ideological propaganda. In many ways, totalitarian architecture represents the regime that builds it. Both…

Publication “KENZO TANGE – Gli anni della rivoluzione formale 1940/1970”

Docomomo International would like to share the publication “KENZO TANGE – Gli anni della rivoluzione formale 1940/1970” [“KENZO TANGE – The years of the formal revolution 1940/1970”] by Giusi Ciotoli and Marco Falsetti, published by Franco Angeli Edizioni. The publication counted with the contribution of FrancoAngeli Architettura Art Design Urban Studies, Olimpia Niglio, Marco Biraghi, the Italy Japan Foundation, the Elèmire Zolla Writings Fund and Docomomo Italia. “Focusing on the period 1960/2020, the volume outlines a precise period of Tanghian research, projecting it within the Japanese cultural sphere and at the same time tracing that web of contacts and stimuli…

Conversation around the book “Imagining the Evident” by Álvaro Siza

Docomomo Internation would like to draw your attention for the publication of a referential book by Álvaro Siza on his own work, in its first English edition. The edition of the English translation Imagining the Evident is going to be celebrated by the Monade and the Istituto di Studi Urbani e del Paesaggio (ISUP) of the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio – Università della Svizzera Italiana, with a conversation around the book between Álvaro Siza, Kenneth Frampton, Jonathan Sergison, João Gomes da Silva and Daniela Sá. The conversation will happen on 22nd June 2021, at 6.00 pm (GMT+1). It will be…

Call for Papers: 7th International Seminar “Museografia e Arquitetura de Museus: Tecnologia e Descolonização” [“Museography and Architecture of Museums: Technology and Decolonization”]

The deadline of call for papers for the 7th International Seminar “Museografia e Arquitetura de Museus: Tecnologia e Descolonização” [“Museography and Architecture of Museums: Technology and Decolonization”], organized by the Museum of Architecture Study Group of the Graduate Program in Architecture – Proarq, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, was extended to 15th July, 2021. Teachers, graduate students, researchers and professionals in Architecture, Museology and Heritage are invited to participate in the 7th International Seminar “Museografia e Arquitetura de Museus: Tecnologia e Descolonização” [“Museography and Architecture of Museums: Technology and Decolonization”] to be held between 18th October and…

Publication “Pier Luigi Nervi in Africa Evoluzione e dissoluzione dello Studio Nervi 1964-1980”

Docomomo International is pleased to share the launch of the publication Pier Luigi Nervi in Africa Evoluzione e dissoluzione dello Studio Nervi 1964-1980, written by Micaela Antonucci and Gabriele Neri, published by Quodlibet Studio, 2021. The publication counts with the contribution of Professor Ana Tostões, chair of Docomomo International, who wrote the Introduction Nervi in Africa, la diaspora moderna. “In the many stories written so far about Pier Luigi Nervi, one of the most famous engineers and architects of the twentieth century, Africa has remained a totally unexplored context. Yet, between 1964 and 1980 Studio Nervi – directed together with…