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  • (Post) 16th November 2019: Outreach - Union from Division: (S)partimento and Renaissance Decoration
  • (Post) 16th September 2019: Media/Scan - Beloved Concrete Monsters
  • (Post) 23rd August 2019: Media/Scan - The Japanese architects who treated buildings like living organisms
  • (Post) 26th July 2019: Opinion - It Ought to Be Gothick
  • (Post) 28th June 2019: Outreach, Call - Union from Division: (S)partimento and Renaissance Decoration
  • (Post) 25th June 2019: Call - Buildings in Bloom: Foliage and Architecture in the Global Middle Ages
  • (Post) 14th June 2019: Call - Buildings in Bloom: Foliage and Architecture in the Global Middle Ages
  • (Post) 27th May 2019: Call - Gothic Spaces: Houses, Landscapes, Bodies
  • (Post) 24th May 2019: Outreach - Postmodern Architecture and Political Change - Poland and Beyond
  • (Post) 08th May 2019: Call - Genius Loci: The Politics of Pre-Modern Architectural Style
  • (Post) 05th February 2019: Commentary - Modernism and the Making of Dystopia
  • (Post) 01st February 2019: Commentary - Debunking Postmodernism’s Myths
  • (Post) 19th December 2018: Interview - Archigram’s Radical Architectural Legacy
  • (Post) 30th November 2018: Commentary - Should PoMo Architecture, at the 50-Year Mark, Be Saved?
  • (Post) 19th November 2018: Media/Scan - The Postmodern Revival in Schools Has Architecture Deans Worried: Are Their Fears Well-Placed?
  • (Post) 30th October 2018: Media/Scan - How the Tuberculosis Epidemic Influenced Modernist Architecture
  • (Post) 22nd August 2018: Media/Scan - The Abandoned, Apocalyptic Architecture of One Bold 1970s Retail Chain
  • (Post) 08th August 2018: Commentary - How Le Corbusier Became Big in Japan
  • (Post) 19th June 2018: Commentary - Why modernism was not the only way of being modern: Book review "Baroque Between the Wars"
  • (Post) 27th May 2018: Media/Scan - The insidious power of borrowing
  • (Post) 15th May 2018: Media/Scan - The Return of the Past
  • (Post) 21st December 2017: Commentary - College campuses are constructing buildings that look like they're straight out of Harry Potter's world
  • (Post) 16th December 2017: Call - SHIFTING TIME FRAMES IN RURAL VERSUS URBAN TOPOI IN LATE MODERNIST FICTION AND BEYOND
  • (Post) 04th December 2017: Outreach - Borromini exhibit explores modern genius
  • (Post) 09th November 2017: Commentary - McMansion, USA
  • (Post) 06th November 2017: Outreach - The Art of Vaulting: Design and Construction of Large Vaults in the Mediterranean Gothic
  • (Post) 12th September 2017: Commentary, Media/Scan - A Fortuitous Shadow
  • (Post) 07th July 2017: Commentary - Hans-Ulrich Obrist on architecture, art, and Metabolism
  • (Post) 03rd May 2017: Media/Scan - Berlin’s Lost Prophet of Colorful Modernism: Onkel Toms Hütte by Bruno Taut
  • (Post) 27th March 2017: Commentary, Media/Scan - What Exists is Good: On “The Architecture of Neoliberalism”
  • (Post) 03rd March 2017: Outreach - Architecture and Society Series - March 15th - The Voice of Sketches: a Story of My World, Ideas, & Experiences, within the context of society at large - Verendra Wakhloo
  • (Post) 11th February 2017: Outreach - Gothic Modernisms
  • (Post) 04th January 2017: Commentary - Obit: James Ackerman
  • (Post) 25th November 2016: Call - Gothic Modernisms
  • (Post) 05th November 2016: Commentary - When Robert Venturi and Jane Jacobs upset the modernist apple cart
  • (Post) 22nd August 2016: Media/Scan - Madras Week: Talk will show how church styles build faith
  • (Post) 30th July 2016: Commentary - A Year in the Metabolist Future of 1972
  • (Post) 13th July 2016: Call - CFP: No Entry - Impenetrable Architecture in Medieval Art : Sessions at ICMS 2017
  • (Post) 27th May 2016: Call - Sessions at Renaissance Society of America (RSA) 2017 Conference, Chicago
  • (Post) 13th May 2016: Call - Publicly Postmodern: government agency and 1980s architecture
  • (Post) 25th April 2016: Commentary - The architecture of independence? Or colonialism?
  • (Post) 02nd April 2016: Call - CFP: Artists' Critical Interventions into Architecture and Design, 1960 – 2016
  • (Post) 07th March 2016: Call - CFP: Revivalism in 20th Century Design, 15-18 February 2017, New York, USA
  • (Post) 02nd March 2016: Call - CFP: Modelling Medieval Vaults (London, 14 Jul 16)
  • (Post) 25th February 2016: Call - ANN: The Architecture of Deregulations Conference
  • (Post) 17th February 2016: Opinion - Calling Mumbai’s architecture names
  • (Post) 03rd February 2016: Media/Scan - You (Still) Have to Pay for the Public Life
  • (Post) 01st February 2016: Call - CFP: The medium and the message: re-evaluating form and meaning in European architecture c. 1400-1950
  • (Post) 27th January 2016: Media/Scan - New Show Highlights Modernist African Architecture from the 1960s, ‘70s
  • (Post) 03rd December 2015: Commentary - How Jefferson Learned Architecture - NYTimes.com
  • (Post) 05th November 2015: Opinion - Leave Starchitects Alone
  • (Post) 17th October 2015: Call - CFP: Temporal Discombobulations: Time and the Experience of the Gothic
  • (Post) 28th September 2015: Opinion - Modern architecture: What will the Queen's architectural legacy be? | The Economist
  • (Post) 19th September 2015: Commentary - Graveyard of Postmodern Architecture — Failed Architecture
  • (Post) 10th September 2015: Call - CFP: The Architecture of Deregulations: Postmodernism, Politics and the Built Environment in Europe, 1975 – 1995, 10-12 March 2016, School of Architecture KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
  • (Post) 09th September 2015: Commentary - Essay: The problem with ornament
  • (Post) 31st August 2015: Commentary - Owen Hatherley: Postmodernism won't be forgiven lightly
  • (Post) 20th July 2015: Call - CONF: Re-framing Identities: Architecture's Turn to History (Zurich, 10-12 Sept 15)
  • (Post) 07th July 2015: Media/Scan - ArchitectSpeak: Daniel Libeskind on architecture's emotional impact - CNN.com
  • (Post) 28th May 2015: Outreach - CONF: ETH Zurich - THE FUTURE OF OPEN BUILDING
  • (Post) 19th May 2015: Call - The Spatial Politics of Architectural Barriers in Renaissance Europe
  • (Post) 11th May 2015: Call - CFP: Sessions at SAH (Pasadena/Los Angeles, 6-10 Apr 16)
  • (Post) 07th May 2015: Commentary - Book Review: How modernist architecture finds its best expression in religious buildings
  • (Post) 23rd April 2015: Commentary - Review: Ornament and Crime, Or Not
  • (Post) 21st December 2014: Media/Scan - Cons - A Scandalous Makeover at Chartres
  • (Post) 07th December 2014: Media/Scan - Venice Bienale 2014 - The Great Architect Rebellion of 2014
  • (Post) 22nd October 2014: Media/Scan - [in-enaction] An Architect’s Big Parisian Moment
  • (Post) 18th October 2014: Call - [CfP] The Future of Open Building Conference
  • (Post) 20th September 2014: Call - [cfp] Southern Modernisms (Porto, 19-21 Feb 15)
  • (Post) 18th September 2014: Call - [in-enaction] CfP: The Tercentenary of Vitruvius Britannicus: Architectural Books in Eighteenth Century Britain - The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Annual Symposium 2015, 16th May 2015, London, UK
  • (Post) 18th July 2014: Media/Scan - [in-enaction] Pub: Architectural Histories: new special collection
  • (Post) 14th July 2014: Call - [cfp] Manfredo Tafuri & the Crisis of Architectural History (Zuerich, 6-7 Mar 15)
  • (Post) 28th June 2014: Outreach - [in-enaction] Pub/TOC: Architectural Histories, special collection
  • (Post) 11th February 2014: Call - [in-enaction] CfP: Apocryphal and Apostolic Modernism. Forgotten connections between religion and architecture, 1945-1970
  • (Post) 08th November 2009: Media/Scan - Cons - Bright future for a Gothic wonder
  • (Post) 04th November 2008: E-Mail - [in-enaction] Jogeshwari: State to verify status of settlements
  • (Post) 01st November 2007: E-Mail - [in-enaction] colloquium: Women in Modernism [NY]
  • (Post) 23rd September 2007: E-Mail - [in-enaction] Gothic? A Return to Architectural Traditions [US, Churches]
  • (Post) 21st September 2007: E-Mail - [in-enaction] discreet charms: Pssst! Modernism hidden within [US]
  • (Post) 04th May 2007: Media/Scan - Re: [in-enaction] politics: Kurokawa (loses) Metabolism, Capsule Tower
  • (Post) 23rd April 2007: E-Mail - [in-enaction] bombay (rocks): The Slum and the Sacred Cave (photo essays)
  • (Post) 11th March 2007: E-Mail - [in-enaction] crackpots: and the sustainibility craze [US]
  • (Post) 29th January 2007: E-Mail - [in-enaction] talk: Strange Bedfellows, 2nd Feb [KRVIA]
  • (Post) 26th July 2006: E-Mail - [in-enaction] superstars: Biography/Review Bigness! (Rem Koolhaas)
  • (Post) 13th March 2006: E-Mail - [in-enaction] jargon: post-postModernISm, or ModernWASm (!)
  • (Post) 30th January 2006: E-Mail - [in-enaction] Modernism: Will NOT Go Away (Janks, Charlie, Vitriol) (Bauhaus, not Koolhouse) [ Observer/Sudjic ]
  • (Post) 15th April 2005: E-Mail - [in-enaction] essay: Science, Pseudo-Science, and Architecture
  • (Post) 05th March 2005: E-Mail - Re: [in-enaction] scan: Toranto: too close for comfort!
  • (Post) 21st October 2004: E-Mail - [in-enaction] scan: A question of style
  • (Post) 16th June 1981: Commentary - Is Modern Architecture Dead?