Ricardo Bofill Abroad: The International Projection of the Taller de Arquitectura, Histories of Postwar Architecture (HPA) issue 15/2024.

Following Ricardo Bofill’s passing in 2022, the aim of issue 15 of Histories of Post-War Architecture Journal is to analyse the international trajectory of the Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA) from 1970 to the present day. This will be achieved through...

Re/Production Conditions of Architecture – revisited | Re/Produktionsbedingungen der Architektur – revisited, Network Architectural Science e.V. 10th Forum Architectural Science 2024.

The 10th FORUM Architectural Science, sched-uled for October 24 to 26, 2024, at the historic Bauhaus Dessau, celebrates the anniversary by revisiting the theme of the inaugural forum. This event will update, expand, and explore „Production...

Location: Bauhaus Dessau (Aula); Dessau-Roßlau, Germany

The Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences/ Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations“ (DFG, FOR 2779) currently invites applications for Research Fellowships

The Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences/ Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations“ (DFG, FOR 2779) currently invites applications forResearch Fellowships (3-6 months)In the period of 01.04...

Location: Universität Erfurt; Erfurt, Germany

Critical Questions – Contemporary Practice: London Heritages 2025, Conference organised by University of Greenwich and Architecture MPS.

A little over 25 years ago, the site of this conference, Maritime Greenwich, London, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Home to the first Palladian building in England, the Royal Naval College by Sir Christopher Wren, the National Maritime...

Location: University of Greenwich; London, United Kingdom

Protests Beyond Plaza: Strategies, Urban Morphologies and Everyday Spaces, Call for chapters for a volume to be published by Routledge, editors: Kateryna Malaia and Nathan Hutson.

We are seeking original chapters for an edited volume Protests Beyond Plaza: Strategies, Urban Morphologies and Everyday Spaces (ed. Kateryna Malaia and Nathan Hutson)  to be published with Routledge in 2025.How do we read the history...

Generative, TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD) ISSUE 9:1.

The upcoming issue of TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD) seeks submissions that critically investigate the potential of generative systems in the allied design fields. Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) have demonstrated the...

Architecture Beyond Extraction, Journal of Architectural Education, 79:1 .

Architecture extracts. The term extraction derives from the Latin extrahere, meaning “to draw out,” “to drag out,” “to remove.” While extraction has been occurring for thousands of years, colonialism and...

Historically free African Americans in visual and spatial representation: A workshop at Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Munich, 2-3 September 2024

A call for papers for a workshop at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Munich (Germany), 2-3 September, 2024, organised by Dr. Andrea Frohne (Alumna Fellow, Käte Hamburger Centre and Professor, Ohio University, USA).Art historians...

Location: Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect; Munich, Germany

Environ|mental Urbanities

The recurrent everyday distress many of us live with in times of climate mutation seems to have unearthed a peculiar link that seemed long lost: between the mental and the environmental. More than a century ago, already Georg Simmel (1903) sought to...

34.3 Designing for First Nations Communities

Fabrications The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand invites papers for a special issue (Vol. 34, No. 3) on the theme of Designing for First Nations Communities, edited by Kelly Greenop and Isabel...

Performance Practices and Architectural Spaces of the Italian Madrigal

Moving away from the composer-based model established by Alfred Einstein in his monumental study, recent scholarship on the Italian madrigal has greatly expanded its scope of investigation, tackling a variety of subjects that span from the social...

Colonial Period Architecture on the African Continent, Panel for the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) 19th Triennial Symposium of African Art.

Previously scholars have explored European architecture in Africa and the schemes behind the building of utopian cities for their colonizing dreams. However, budding interest in African arts during the colonial era may pave the way for studies in the...

Location: DePaul University Loop Campus Conference Center; Chicago, United States

Ausstrahlung in die Welt. Architektur und Handwerk in Vorarlberg. Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte zwischen Praxis und Theorie

The upcoming conference, a cooperation of vorarlberg museum (Bregenz), Institute of art history (Innsbruck) and Institute for Architectural Theory and History (Innsbruck), continues a line of inquiry from the lecture series “Out into the World:...

Location: vorarlberg museum; Bregenz, Austria

2024 ACADIA Workshops: Designing Change

ACADIA 2024 invites proposals for 3-day intensive in-person workshops focusing on the theme “Designing Change: {RE}defined, Engaged & Distributed”. These workshops are designed to help participants learn new technologies, connect with...

Location: University of Calgary; Banff, Canada

Rivers of Harappa, 13th International THAAP Conference 2024.

Over the last one thousand years Punjab has experienced social turbulence and war; however, like an ocean, the surface turbulence is only a layer over the vast calm waters below. A host of invaders and empire-builders, operating under racial or religious...

Location: THAAP; Lahore, Pakistan

Call for Manuscripts: Port Cities in Global History (Working Title)

The Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures (PCMC) at the University of Portsmouth, and History Department at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) invites manuscripts for consideration in an edited volume which explores the role of port cities in the...

Living (and Dying) Together: Urban Housing & Health in East-Central and Southeastern Europe (18th-20th centuries), A workshop organized on the 30th – 31st of July 2024, by the Centre for Population Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca.

The Centre for Population Studies from the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca aims to bring together scholars from social and medical history, as well as historical demography, to reflect on the inter-related topics of urban housing and health in...

Location: Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca; Cluj-Napoca, Romania

MIT Thresholds 53: Idle

Thresholds, the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture and published by the MIT Press, is now accepting submissions for Thresholds 53: Idle. This year, the journal is edited by Joshua Tan and Mingjia Chen....

Displaced Lives: Architects seeking refuge on the brink of the Second World War - call for papers

In January 1939, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) set up a special committee to deal with the increasing number of requests for assistance from architects situated in Nazi-occupied central Europe.Between 1938 and 1941, more than 200...

Location: Online / Riba; London, United Kingdom

Representation in Creative Pedagogy: The arts, humanities and design, Conference organised by Universitas Katolik Parahyangan & Nenun Ruang and Architecture MPS.

The role of ‘representation’ in teaching and learning goes beyond the mere static depiction of facts, projects or information. It has a dynamic role in fostering creativity in the learning process itself. It functions as a bridge, not only...

Location: Universitas Katolik Parahyangan & Nenun Ruang; Bandung, Indonesia

The Urban-Rural System in Premodern Europe, Session at the 15th European Social Science History Conference.

This session aims to revisit the evolution of urban-rural relations in premodern Europe. The key objective is to examine the interdependence between cities and towns and their rural hinterlands and how this relationship shaped environmental, demographic,...

Location: Leiden University; Leiden, Netherlands

Building Manuals as a Global and Local Medium of Development, Session at Society of Architectural Historians, 2025 Annual International Conference.

Recent architectural history research examines the knowledge transfers between different regions of the world in postwar development programs, revealing the persistence of colonial narratives and the renegotiation of development on a local level. Within...

Location: SAH 2025 Annual Conference; Atlanta, United States

Call for Book Chapters: "Essentials Issues on African Development: Tackling Old Challenges With New Strategies”

Vernon Press invites book chapter proposals for the forthcoming edited volume titled "Essentials Issues on African Development: Tackling Old Challenges With New Strategies”, edited by Stephen Armah.While other parts of the world are...

BUILDING EARLY MODERN PRIVACY, Call for chapters and participation at the authors' workshop for a book on the spatial aspects of privacy 1500-1800.

In a present-day understanding, privacy is often limited to a private room in a home, preferably behind a closed door. In contrast, scholarship on the built environment of early modern society, as well as anthropological research on non-western cultures,...

Location: University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen, Denmark