Call for Papers: 74th Annual International Conference – Society of Architectural Historians

The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 74th Annual International Conference in Montréal, Canada, April 14–18, 2021. Please submit an abstract no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 3, 2020, to one of the 33 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks or the Open Sessions. SAH encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; scholars in related fields; and members of SAH chapters and partner organizations. Thematic sessions and Graduate Student Lightning Talks are listed below. The thematic sessions have been selected to cover topics across all time periods and architectural styles. If…

Call for Papers: Getty Research Journal, Fall 2021 Issue

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the Getty Research Journal will begin biannual publication in 2021. Submissions are invited for the inaugural fall issue. Published twice a year, in February and in August, the journal will continue to feature the work of art historians, museum curators, and conservators around the world as part of the Getty’s mission to promote the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world’s artistic legacy. Articles are peer reviewed. We welcome submissions of original scholarship relevant to the Getty’s initiatives, research projects and themes, and collections. The Getty Research Journal is distributed in print and…

Docomomo Iran Newsletter

Docomomo International is glad to announce that Docomomo Iran published the first issue of its newsletter. Docomomo Iran Newsletter is in pdf format and will be published every month (based on Iranian solar calendar). The language of the newsletter is Persian and it consists of five sections: The Foreword, One Architect; One Building, An Adaptive Reuse Project, and News from the World. The newsletter can be downloaded from Docomomo Iran website. To read the full Newsletter click here.

Edmonton 2020 Conference: “Hindsight 2020: Conservation, Disruption, and the Future of Heritage” – virtual sessions | Covid-19 disclaimer

[Dear members and Supporters, The difficult decision by the boards of APT and the National Trust for Canada to switch the Edmonton 2020 conference to a virtual event set off two months of intense activity by the joint APT/NT/CAHP planning team. The team has worked hard to reimagine what our annual conference will be like online rather than in-person. First, we focused on modifying the program already developed for Edmonton, adapting it to a remote, digital format. Our goal is to make the content and social events as engaging and interactive as possible. Next we had to evaluate the technology needed to…

Guide to Architecture of the University City of 1952

Book review by Alejandrina Escudero The Guide to Architecture of the University City of 1952, published by the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, deals with one of the most notorious urban complexes of the 20th century in Mexico. Located to the south of Mexico City, on a bed of volcanic lava, its construction represented not only an architectural landmark but a true transformation of the educational community, influencing decisively the new generations of students and the country’s destiny. The University City was adjusted to master plan, by Mario Pani and Enrique del Moral,…

Instabilities and Potentialities. Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture

Book review by Matthew Allen It is an odd book that begins by suggesting that we read another book, but there it is, in the fourth sentence: Georges Teyssot exhorting us to buy the recent translation of Gilbert Simondon’s early masterwork, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, originally published in French in 1958 (viii). Here we find in miniature the conundrum at the heart of what has been called “digital architecture” for the past thirty years: computational techniques have proliferated even as their original philosophical raison d’être has languished. As Mario Carpo argued in The Alphabet and the…

Carlo Scarpa. Casa Zentner a Zurigo: una villa italiana in Svizzera [Carlo Scarpa. Zentner house in Zurich: an Italian villa in Switzerland]

“The volume, published for Electaarchitecture, illustrates and documents the ‘micro-history’ of Casa Zentner in Zurich, the only building built by Carlo Scarpa outside Italy. Casa Zentner was conceived and built between 1963 and 1969 for Savina and René Zentner. Savina Rizzi, architecture superintendent and art collector, is among the most assiduous patrons of Carlo Scarpa since the 1950s. After following Frank Lloyd Wright’s project for the palace on the Grand Canal in Venice at a very young age, requested by the architect Angelo Masieri, her first husband who died prematurely, Savina will entrust Scarpa with various tasks including, in 1953-1954,…

TEMPORÁNEA. Revista de Historia de la Arquitectura

The Comité de Dirección of the TEMPORÁNEA. Revista de Historia de la Arquitectura is pleased to announce the publication of the first issue. TEMPORÁNEA. Revista de Historia de la Arquitectura builds an international forum in the field of Architecture History. Filling the existing gap of specialized publications in this matter in Spain, the journal has a marked international character, which translates both into the active participation of international experts in its bodies and the research published in it. Research in the History of Architecture is approached from any discipline, chronological period and geographic scope, and promotes the diversity and complexity of…

Habiter au XXIe siècle les édifices des années 1950-1970 [Living in the buildings of the 1950s and 1970s in the 21st century]

The BRAUP and the ENSA of Saint-Étienne are pleased to present the summary of the symposium “Habiter au XXIe siècle les édifices des années 1950-1970” which was held in Firminy in the house of Culture of Le Corbusier, November 15 and 16, 2018. General presentation of the research program The built heritage inherited from the 20th century, more particularly that built after 1945, constitutes a major part of the fabric of our cities. It presents a great typological and constructive diversity which makes it possible to envisage multiple adaptation, transformation, restoration, recycling and reuse strategies. It is an important source…

Call for applications: Editorial Board of Architectural Histories

Architectural Histories invites applications for three new members to join its editorial board. Members of the editorial board work with the editor-in-chief to guide potential contributions, from submission through peer review and copyediting stages of publication. Members thus carry considerable responsibility for the content and quality of the journal. The board, in keeping with the European Architectural History Network’s mission, also develops the strategy and vision of the journal, maintaining its disciplinary, thematic and geographic diversity and outreach whilst upholding scholarly excellence and integrity. Members should be available and committed, willing to devote considerable time to the journal (a minimum of two…