Call for Papers: Emotional Objects

Emotional Objects – Northern Renaissance Afterlives in Object, Image and Word, 1890s-1920s A one-day International Symposium, the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, 12-13 June 2020. Organizer: Prof. Juliet Simpson In 1920 Louis Gillet, the French art historian and internationalist published a rousing article defending the repatriation of stolen fragments from the Van Eycks’ Ghent Altarpiece from Germany to Belgium as ‘un drapeau’. His ensign of a Northern patrimony pitched as an emotive call for a different cultural ‘belonging’ post-1918 was part of a pattern. Jean Fouquet’s Melun Diptych was vaunted as both a ‘jewel’, yet the…

CHICAGO 7 Most Endangered 2020

From a gracious old tennis club that became a church on the city’s Far North Side to a sprinkling of handsome old remnants of a now-faded shopping district on the Far South Side, treasured buildings from Chicago’s past are in danger, according to a preservation group. “We need to prioritize strategies that put preservation first in public policy and practice so the history that ties us to our communities and connects us to place can be protected,” Ward Miller, executive director of Preservation Chicago, said in a statement announcing the group’s 2020 Chicago 7 Most Endangered list. The list includes…

Les immeubles de grande hauteur en France. Un héritage moderne 1945-1975

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the release of the docomomo France bulletin dedicated to high-rise buildings in France. Publication director: Richard Klein Editor in chief: Riccardo Forte Editorial secretary: Milena Crespo Editorial coordination: Léo Noyer-Duplaix and Marjorie Occelli The authors: Caroline Bauer, Silvia Berselli, Catherine Blain, Gauthier Bolle, Bénédicte Chaljub, Audrey Courtebaisse, Milena Crespo, Amandine Diener, Philippe Dufieux, Laurent Duport, Riccardo Forte, julie Gimbal, Richard Klein, Léo Noyer-Duplaix, Hugo Massire, Noëmie Maurin-Gaisne,  Gauthier Vanovershelde,  Benjamin Walther. “The reader, contemporary spectator of the resurgence of the urban tower, will certainly find a critical subject of choice in the case studies…

International Call | Valparaiso | Chile 2020-2021

Italian diaspora in Valparaíso “Architects, engineers, artists between the 19th and 20th centuries” Within the framework of the collaboration agreement signed between the Centro de Estudios y Gestión del Patrimonio de la Universidad de Valparaíso and EdA Esempi di Architettura International Research Center, the following editorial team has been formed: Dra. Olimpia Niglio, Architect Manuel Hernández A ., Historian Baldomero Estrada T. and Architect Francisco Bustamante Ch. The team invites researchers from all over the Ibero-Italian-American academic and professional world to carry out critical and illustrated essays about the material work and contributions to Chilean culture, of architects, engineers, artists…

Call for Papers: Cultures of Belgian Space, 1850-1924

Dominique Bauer (KULeuven), Laurence Brogniez (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Marjan Sterckx (Universiteit Gent), Hingene, Belgium, 16-17 October 2020. The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed the emergence of a modern city culture within a globalised economy, built on industrial mass production, an early consumer society, and colonial expansion. Both modernism and colonialism led to the creation of otherness. Non-industrial, pre-modern or exotic societies, and furthermore the racial, moral or female other were not just conceived in reaction to the emergence of modernism, but were also interiorised. This conference will bring together a number of papers that focus on how…

Call for Papers: Architectural Aesthetics: An Old Matter Revisited. sITA – studies in History and Theory of Architecture Journal

Trying to highlight the architects’ involvement in topics other than the mere production on form, the heading Less aesthetics, more ethics of the 2000 Venice Architectural Biennale inadvertently opened the way to a specious professional dichotomy. The title has become a tagline encouraging alternative practices of architecture motivated by ethical — environmental and social — concerns, while seemingly dismissing the aesthetic discourse. Yet, concerns about the nature and expression of beauty had proven fundamental for defining architecture as a practice, for writing its theory, for endowing its critique and education with specific instruments even before aesthetics was born. And despite the debunking…

Call for Papers: Architectural Exhibitions. Bitácora Arquitectura Journal, issue 44

In this issue, the editors of Bitácora aim to explore architectural exhibitions as cultural artefacts that have fostered critical reflection and have established aesthetic canons, social patterns, and cultural policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is often overlooked that some noteworthy architectural works achieved this status thanks to exhibitions and that some works were even produced only for exhibition purposes. Influential exhibitions advanced polemical proposals that guided critics and gave rise to canonical works and debates of the past century. Exhibition spaces such as galleries and museums condition the development, reception, and presentation of architecture. In these spaces,…

International Congress – The History of Modern Spanish Architecture

The Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura – Universidad de Navarra is pleased to announce the International Congress – The History of Modern Spanish Architecture, that will take place from 25th to 27th of March, 2020, Pamplona. Industrial building forms (in all its aspects, from dams to warehouses and silos, to workshops and mills), on their eminent search for economical and spatial efficiency, became extremely evocative formal references for architects in the early stages of the Modern Movement, as Reyner Banham noticed. They also often inspired the designs of urban ordinary buildings. This took place in the Twenties in Europe, later…

Call for Papers: Identifications of the Postmodern

Sonja Hnilica (TU Dortmund) and Riklef Rambow (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, KIT) invite papers for an issue on “Identifications of the Postmodern“ (Wolkenkuckucksheim | Cloud-Cuckoo-Land | Воздушный замок, Vol. 24, No. 41). Denise Scott-Brown stated in 1990: “We are modernists, not postmodernists. No one is a postmodernist. Maybe postmodernism is dead.” Only ten years ago, the architecture of the socalled postmodern era suffered from a rather dubious reputation. Since then, the perspective seems to have shifted radically. The 1980s are enjoying a revival not only in the fashion world and, an increased interest in postmodernism can be observed in the…

CIUL – Encontro UniverCidades: Lisboa Verde e Azul [CIUL – University Cities Meeting: Lisbon Green and Blue]

In the scope of the close collaboration between CIUL – Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa [CIUL – Lisbon Urban Information Center] and the academic universe, the 2nd UniverCidades Meeting will take place on the 4th and 5th of March. With an annual periodicity, this event aims to present reference works in Lisbon developed by each of the intervening entities, around a common theme. In the year that Lisbon celebrates the “European Green Capital 2020” award, which was distinguished by the European Commission, the 2nd UniverCidades Meeting will be subordinated to the theme “Lisbon Green and Blue”. We will thus…