In Dhaka, Habitat III forum confronts staggering population forecast
Language English Housing for allEven ahead of the incredible population explosion forecasted for the coming decades in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s urban housing shortage is already significant. In 2010 alone,...
View Article[$] Airbnb Pledges to Play Nice With Cities
Language English This week, Airbnb is toning down the world domination rhetoric and focusing on its good citizen story.
View ArticleFor India's Urban Homeless, Finding a Place to Sleep Is a 'Matter of Life and...
Language English The demand among Delhi’s homeless for safe, state-run spaces has long outweighed the supply. That leaves thousands of homeless men, women, and children sleep out in the open: on...
View ArticleEvaluation criteria for Smart City plans firmed up
Language English The evaluation criteria for second stage of competition accords a weightage of 30 out of 100 marks for implementation framework including feasibility and cost effectiveness, 20 for...
View ArticleCFP: KAPSULA Magazine: Good Measure
Language English For our next quarterly theme, KAPSULA Magazine will look at art practices that generate work from calculative process. Perhaps not commonly associated with art-making, the business of...
View ArticleSTIP: GTA Fellowships in History and Theory of Architecture, Zurich
Language English The Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zürich is offering gta Fellowships in History and Theory of Architecture beginning in Fall 2016. The Institute...
View ArticleCFP: Monstrous Geographies
Language English What do ancient burial sites, haunted houses, post-apocalyptic landscapes, and even recent topographical manifestations of the Gaza conflict or the crash site of Malaysia Airlines...
View ArticleSlum Lovers v|s "Heritage Lovers": Can a slum built on a World Heritage Site...
Language English When Doña Chela first settled in Tlalpizatli more than 20 years ago, they didn’t have any roads, electricity, running water – or even a bridge over the canal to the main road. So the...
View ArticleAfter a Painful Eviction, Bangladesh Slum Dwellers Start Over With a 99-Year...
Language English Sudden demolitionGopalganj is a city of 100,000 in the southwest of Bangladesh. Once famous for its production of jute, a fiber used in rope, burlap and some textiles, the region has...
View ArticleHistoric Hotel Okura Tokyo to sell off furniture, fixtures used over 50 years...
Language English For those former guests and architectural buffs who lamented the demolition of the iconic Hotel Okura Tokyo, they can soon preserve a piece of it in their homes.Hotel officials plan to...
View ArticleEchoes of Le Corbusier in Phnom Penh – and beyond
Language English A conference held by Japanese architecture professor Yoshiyuki Yamana at the French Institute on Thursday sought to bring an international perspective to one of Cambodia’s most...
View ArticleDebate: Vanity Publishing - 26 November
Language English The DebatorsOliver Wainwright is Architecture Critic at the Guardian and former Features Editor of Building Design Magazine.Cath Slessor is Critic-at-Large of the Architecture...
View ArticleComing soon: National Academy for Urban Development
Language English Developing urban infrastructure and customising designs for cities and municipal bodies could no longer be the job of the civil engineer or an architect working for the government...
View ArticleDrawing up the capital: Nehru’s impact on modern Indian architecture | The...
Language English Nehru believed that architecture was important in building a cultural vision of a new, democratic and egalitarian society and a new citizen, and that the radical modern movement in...
View ArticleCFP: Music and Visual Cultures International Conference (Maynooth, 21-23 Jul 16)
Language English The Music Department, in collaboration with the Research Cluster “Performance, Practice & Interactivity” at Maynooth University, is pleased to host the “Music and Visual Cultures...
View ArticleCFP: The Salesroom as Socio-Cultural Space (London, 14-16 Jul 2016)
Language English The commercial art gallery and auction house, arguably the most visible component of the modern art market, developed ostensibly as a means of facilitating fiscal transactions,...
View ArticleCONF: Nocturnes in Modern Visual Culture (London, 16 Dec 2015)
Language English Nocturnes in Modern Visual Culture: Depicting Night in the Age of Gas and Electric Light
View ArticleTaksim, Tahrir, Occupy & Co. Visuality and Urban Space - Invitation to the...
Language English Invitation to the Public DebateTaksim, Tahrir, Occupy & Co Session 2: Visuality and Urban SpaceThis is the second event of a debate series in collaboration with Dr. Nadine...
View ArticleCFP: Journal of Islamic Architecture, Issue: Imagining Localities
Language English nternational Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA)Special Issue on "Imagining Localities of Antiquity in Islamicate Societies"; Thematic volume planned for Summer 2017In honor of the...
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