The Challenge from Within: Progressive Architects in Capitalist Systems

In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in architecture as a tool for social and political reform. From academic curricula to various international events like Biennales and Triennales, the discussion surrounding our discipline’s...

Location: Zurich University of Applied Sciences; Winterthur, Switzerland

GKK 100 – Giovanni Klaus Koenig in the Twentieth Century Design Culture

In the context of the Italian design culture of the second half of the 20th century, Giovanni Klaus Koenig (1924-1989) emerges as a highly original figure of theorist, historian and critic of architecture and design, semiologist, esteemed lecturer and...

Location: University of Florence; Florence, Italy

Cultural Heritage of Health and Welfare: reflections on a multidisciplinary field / Cultural da Saúde e da Assistência: reflexões sobre um campo multidisciplinar, Special Issue of Dossier História em Revista.

The cultural heritage of health and welfare consists of the set of objects and buildings, as well as intangible practices, that have developed in the context of the welfare and health care provided to different individuals. It is a type of heritage that...

12th Forum East Asian Art History in German-speaking Countries / 12. Forum Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte im Deutschsprachigen Raum Heidelberg, Conference organised by Institute for East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University.

The Institute for East Asian Art History (IKO) at Heidelberg University is pleased to announce the 12th annual newcomer symposium Forum East Asian Art History in German-speaking Countries in The Institute for East Asian Art History (IKO) at Heidelberg...

Location: Universität Heidelberg; Heidelberg, Germany

The spaces of the Sacred (3rd edition)

The spaces of the Sacred offers a space for reflection and debate for anyone who understands sacred spaces as laboratories for architectural, urban and landscape research. This definition includes places of worship, funerary and memorial spaces, as well...

Location: Sainte-Marie de la Tourette convent; Eveux, France

Rimini, 18th century: Art, Science, Antiquarianism, the Grand Tour / Rimini nel Settecento tra arte, scienza, antiquaria e Grand Tour

During the eighteenth century Rimini opens to Europe becoming a destination for artists, travelers and curious intellectuals. These visitors came to discover the archaeological and artistic testimonies of the city and to observe its rediscovered natural...

Location: Università degli Studi di Bologna; Rimini, Italy

Imagination Today: Between Theory and Practice of Phantasia

A special issue of the journal Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities in 2026 will delve into the challenging debates abundant in 20th and 21st-century continental philosophy about the place of imagination not only in aesthetics, but...

Real Estate Agency: Land, Housing and Finance in Urban and Planning History, The 17th meeting of the Urban History/Planning History Group.

In the cities of Australia and Aoteraoa/New Zealand, real estate seems to be almost a second nature. It is a pervasive fact in daily life, structuring the economy and the environment. Wealth is tied up in it, our planning systems serve it, and our culture...

Location: University of Sydney; Sydney, Australia

Urban Jungle – Urban Desert – Urban Meadow, Porównania, Vol. 2 (36)/2024.

The editorial team of the semi-annual “Porównania” calls for submissions to volume 2(36)/2024 entitled: Urban Jungle – Urban Desert – Urban Meadow Cities are born from diverse social, economic, political and ideological processes, creating as a...

IN-PRESENCE / THE BODY AND THE SPACE. The role of corporeity in the era of virtualization, European Research on Architecture and Urbanism International Conference.

The next EURAU International Conference – IN-PRESENCE / THE BODY AND THE SPACE – The Role of Corporeity in the Era of Virtualisation – will occur in Milan, 19-22 June 2024. The EURAU Milan 2024 Conference aims to unpack the...

Location: Politecnico di Milano; Milano, Italy

"Italy is More Surrealist than Even the Pope", Dalí, 1935

The conference "Italy is More Surrealist than Even the Pope" (Dalí, 1935) aims to explore the significance and influence of Italy on international Surrealism. Artists such as Carlyle Brown, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Leonor Fini, Edward James,...

Location: Ca’ Foscari Venezia Auditorium; Venice, Italy

Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices

Sophia Journal's third thematic, “Landscapes of Care”, addresses research, projects, experiences, and contemporary photographic and visual practices that focus on how architecture, understood in a broad sense, can help to heal the relationships...

REFUGE City: Towards a New Urban Perspective in the Global South, Avani Annual Research Symposium 2023.

The symposium "REFUGE City" seeks to encourage a re-evaluation of our understanding and perspectives on cities since the Industrial Revolution. Beyond the excessive portrayal of cities as mechanized, ecologically detrimental, and occasionally dehumanizing...

Location: Avani Institute of Design; Calicut, India

Constructions of Jewish Cultural Heritage in Fictional Texts on Architecture, City, and Space

The interplay of built architecture and its literary representation in the medium of text is currently enjoying increased academic interest, as relevant publications, research groups and conferences illustrate. In the Jewish context, the descriptions of...

Location: Warburg-Haus; Hamburg, Germany

20^th-Century Housing Heritage in Europe: Conserving, Participating, and Adapting, Conference organised by TU Wien – Denkmalpflege und Bauen im Bestand and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar – Stadtplanung.

The conference focusses on housing concepts and built settlements of the 20th century, which often explicitly addressed hygienical, ecological, communal, and social issues and necessities. We ask how these heritage values can be conserved for the...

Location: TU Wien; Wien, Austria

Unfolding the Coromandel Screen: Visual Mobility, Inscribed Objecthood, and Global Lives

With the generous support of the Bei Shan Tang Foundation, the Department of Chinese and History at City University of Hong Kong will host a two-part academic event titled “Unfolding the Coromandel Screen” in celebration of the department’s tenth...

Location: City University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong S.A.R., China

Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts (CITAA) – 8th Edition

Every city possesses a unique and valuable identity that is expressed through its physical and visual form. This identity is perceived by its residents and users, shaping their collective memories. The city's identity comprises its physical spaces and the...

Location: University of Pisa; Pisa, Italy

International Symposium on Young Heritage (1975-2000)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Architectural Engineering and urban.brussels kindly invite you to the International Symposium on Young Heritage (1975-2000) on February 6-7 2024. The core objective of this symposium is to provide valuable insights into...

Location: Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Brussel, Belgium

Esse no. 112: Dreams

In dreams, we face our deepest desires and fears. For many, they are how we process the day, solve a problem, or discover our true selves. This is what we might call the scientific or natural way of understanding the function of dreams. For Sigmund Freud...

Landscape as Horizon, Special issue of sITA, studies in History and Theory of Architecture.

In the last chapter of L’architecture au futur depuis 1889, Jean-Louis Cohen listed several “vanishing points” that, although barely visible in the distance, would allow architecture to escape the unrelenting aspiration for originality, newness,...

The Architecture of Inexact Respiration, JOELHO 16. Editors Armando Rabaça, Bruno Gil, João Branco, Alexandre Dias.

The lack of awareness of the limits of natural resources and an unrestricted faith in technology fostered the idea of a universal architecture, which dominated the first half of the twentieth century. The position in which we find ourselves today is not...

Text and Image / Text und Bild, 12th Colloquium on Architectural Theory at the Werner Oechslin Library.

The image has priority, today more than ever. Who still reads commentaries, explanations, historical excursuses, or even entire books, when the image reveals everything “at a glance” (“d’un coup d'oeil”)? The question should immediately arise: What does...

Location: Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin; Einsiedeln, Switzerland

Art and Craft. Technique in the Eighteenth Century / Kunst und Handwerk. Die Techniken des 18. Jahrhunderts, Annual Conference of the German Society for Eighteenth Century Research at the University of Stuttgart In cooperation with the DLA.

Until the eighteenth century, techne – a term with its roots in antiquity – denoted practices of artistic making and doing; during the eighteenth century, this understanding underwent a change. Fields of knowledge became increasingly varied and...

Location: Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach; Marbach am Neckar, Germany

Production, Transmission & Interpretation: An interdisciplinary conference on Islamic Art, Architecture, History and Archaeology

Islamic time begins with the Hijra; the integral responsibilities of every Muslim include the Hajj; and studies of Islamic history have traditionally followed military marches and commercial/cultural corridors that enabled the creation of the great...

Location: University of York; York, United Kingdom