Mapping.crit.arch First International Workshop
Language English Architectural Criticism: Part of Public Debate or Autonomous “Discipline”?Architectural criticism blurs boundaries with other forms or types of architectural discourse: namely,...
View ArticleA Perfect Circle: Can the Shape of a City Affect Its Success? - What Urban...
Language English Wharton professor of real estate, Mariaflavia Harari writes in Knowlede @ Wharton about her research into the influence of the shape of a city on the economic success of residents and...
View ArticleInvitation of Application for Senior Research Assistant at DICRC for Study of...
Language English Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC), CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India is inviting application for job of a Full Time Senior Researcher for its project ‘Study of...
View ArticleIEEE plugs into Smart Cities movement | Network World
Language English IEEE is deeply involved in the advancement of electronic technologies of all kinds. The technical demands of urban development—in transportation, energy, communications, security,...
View ArticleINVITATION - Gallery Walk, Prabuddha Dasgupta - A Journey
Language English The Director, National Gallery of Modern Art, New DelhiMinistry of Culture, Government of IndiaCordially invites you to the Gallery Walks in conjunction with the on-going...
View ArticleCFP: Modernisms: Concepts, Contexts & Circulation (Sao Paulo, 17- 24 Jul 16)
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View ArticleCONF: Die Architektur der Bettelorden im Mittelalter (Mainz, 19 Nov 15)
Language German Zu Beginn des 13. Jhds. bildeten sich infolge des Urbanisierungsprozesses und der damit entstandenen Kluft zwischen Reichen und Armen die Bettelorden der Dominikaner (1215) und...
View ArticleThe London that might have been – ... via RIBA images site
Language English From Nelson’s Globe to a tower that dwarfs Big Ben and a landing strip on Park Lane, here are 300 years of designs for London that, if built, would have changed the city for ever
View Article[in-enaction] Why I am returning my award – Arundhati Roy
Language English Today, we live in a country in which, when the thugs and apparatchiks of the New Order talk of "illegal slaughter", they mean the imaginary cow that was killed -- not the real man who...
View ArticleArchitecture’s modest master Alvaro Siza shares wisdom at Toronto lecture -...
Language English “It’s a question of temperament,” he said outside his hotel, between drags of a cigarette. “It is just the way I am as a person. I have no desire to speak grandly.”
View ArticleCFP: Rethinking Architecture Education: Towards a Better Practice - 9-11...
Language English The aim of RAE2016 is to discuss and exchange experiences on educational innovation in undergraduate and postgraduate studies in architecture and urbanism. Seeking to instil in...
View ArticleCFP: Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life.
Language English Contemporary cities are spaces and places traversed by a diversity of movements, making them very special locus for analysing society. The ESA’s Research Network 37 – Urban Sociology-...
View ArticleCFP: Design & Decision Support Systems 2016
Language English 13th International Conference on Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban PlanningThe DDSS conference is a bi-annual conference with a focus on issues pertinent...
View ArticleInterview: “Architectural debates are rubbish” — Failed Architecture
Language English There’s a new series of architectural debates in London: Turncoats <http://www.turncoats.uk/>. The initiators – Phineas Harper, Robert Mull and Maria Smith – are fed up with the...
View ArticleCity Futures: An International Conference | PennDesign
Language English According to a recent United Nations report, 54% of the world's population lives in urban areas, and the proportion is expected to reach 66% by 2050. What form will the city of the...
View ArticleAirbnb Touts Political Power
Language English Yesterday’s elections saw the defeat of Proposition F in San Francisco, which would have limited the number of nights Airbnb hosts could rent out rooms in the Bay Area city where it...
View ArticleReinier de Graaf: "The western architectural ivory tower has become a theatre...
Language English "Can I see some hands raised? Who in the audience think of Frank Gehry's Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park as contextual?" (No hands raised.) "Who think of it as not?" (No hands...
View ArticleSymbol of tolerance: Experts bat for world heritage tag to Lotus Temple
Language English The proposal has been pitched by the temple's trustee, the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of India, which has appointed India National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage...
View ArticleAusschreibung Modernismen: Konzepte, Kontexte, Zirkulationen Transregionale...
Language German Das Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin und das Deutsche Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris (DFK, Teil der Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im...
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