Women and the City: The Changing Role of Women in Urban Renewal since 1989
Chairs: Caterina Franchini (Politecnico di Torino) and Helena Seražin (Research Centre of Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts)The contribution of women architects, urban planners and designers to...
View ArticleSpaces of Fear in the 20th Century City
Chairs: Mikkel Høghøj (Aarhus University), Monika Motylinska (Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space IRS, Erkner)At first sight, a badly lit pedestrian underpass in a mass housing estate,...
View ArticleEAUH 2018 Session: The Mobility of Urban Terminology
Concepts of urbanism incessantly migrate, and in the process mutate across national, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries. Through institutional programs as well as personal interactions, ideas on...
View ArticleMoMA's Massive "Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive" Exhibit
The exhibit is comprised of nearly 400 items made in the 1890s through the 1950s and is housed in 12 rooms, divided to each focus on a specific work or theme from Wright's career.While drawings and...
View ArticleFort should straddle Qutb tombs for UNESCO tag
'Linkage'. It is an important word and a more important concept. Especially, when used in the context of monuments and sites across India that are competing to bag the coveted UNESCO World Heritage...
View ArticleThe city that Ahmed built: Which version of Ahmedabad are we prepared to...
The reimagining of the old city began gradually in the late ’90s, with the percolation of Western-inspired ideas of heritage conservation. These influences can be seen in the preserved facades of...
View ArticleEditorial—"Digital Realism"
Post-Internet Cities is a new collaborative project between MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology and e-flux Architecture within the context of the Utopia/Dystopia exhibition and...
View ArticleThe billion-dollar palaces of Apple, Facebook and Google
The tech giants, Apple, Facebook, Google and the rest, are also in the business of building physical billion-dollar enclaves for their thousands of employees.
View ArticleA glimpse into M.C. Escher’s mind-INSIDE
You may not have heard of the name Escher, but surely you have seen the hyper-realistic picture of two hands drawing each other, of lizards crawling out of a piece of a paper, or a patterned picture of...
View ArticlePreparations for Urban Mobility India conference reviewed
Addressing the meeting, Mittal said that Hyderabad will host the 10th edition of the Urban Mobility India (UMI) conference-cum-exhibition from the 4th of November this year. The three day conference...
View ArticleShort supply of wood, wood carvers to delay heritage reconstruction
The reconstruction of Patan Darbar Square is likely to take four more years, according to workers rebuilding and renovating the historical and cultural monuments destroyed during the earthquake of...
View ArticleMumbnai buildings: Flight path buildings crumbling, builders not keen on...
When an airport is built within a city, safety normsensure the buildings that fall under the shadow of aircraft remain stunted forever. Which is why the fate of about 3.6 lakh residents who live in the...
View ArticleVikas Dilawari: The win some, lose some heritage game
Earliar this month, UNESCO declared Ahmedabad as a World Heritage city, making it the first such in India. ... Similarly, last year, while Chandigarh's Capitol Complex was added to the coveted list as...
View ArticleGovt withdraws Architects (amendment) bill 2010 from RS
The governent today withdrew from the Rajya Sabha a bill to amend the Architects Act, 1972 which provides for registration of architects.The bill has been withdrawn as the government seeks to redraft...
View ArticleACSA Conference (Denver, CO; March 15-18, 2018)
This panel will discuss how architectural history/theory coursework responds to ethical questions. In recent decades, questions of ethical engagement in architectural practice have been situated within...
View ArticleEAHN 2018 Session: Spaces for children as 'citizens of the future' in the...
The recognition of childhooh and the autonomy of children since the 18th century resulted in the provision of distinctive spaces specifically designed for them. Schools, medical facilities,...
View ArticleBook provides first overview of property tax in Africa
The At Lincoln House blog has a post sharing news of a new book published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The book, Property Tax in Africa: Status, Challenges, and Prospects, provides the...
View ArticleHumanities go digital with archive of historic Rome
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from University of Oregon, Stanford and Dartmouth have co-developed a new digital archive. The collection contains nearly 4,000 drawings, prints, paintings and...
View ArticleLacking Seoul? Why South Korea's thriving capital is having an identity crisis
In November 2015, a much-publicised process of crowdsourcing ideas and putting them to a vote culminated in the city of Seoul unveiling its current English-language slogan: “I.Seoul.U.” It met with...
View ArticleBook Launch of "Walk with the Artist" by Associazione 22:37
Walk with the artist is an urban intervention project that explores the concept of a walk as an aesthetic tool within the framework of public art. The idea behind these walks is to create a shared...
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