Spaces and Places of Leisure, Recreation and Sociability in Early Modernity...
This conference looks at practices of leisure, recreation and sociability in pre-modern societies and how these were reflected in and shaped by spatial practices. As is the case today, sociable,...
View ArticleThe Fine Arts and Critics (Dijon, 29 Apr 2016) - ArtHist: H-Net Information...
In 1899, Thorstein Veblen developed in the United States the concept of “Conspicuous Consumption” in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class. He explained how art could be studied as a social product...
View ArticleLutyens' Delhi: India's snobbiest neighbourhood may let normal people move in...
The Lutyens Bungalow Zone (LBZ)—a 100-year-old neighbourhood in New Delhi—is perhaps India’s most elite residential location.
View ArticleMetroland, 100 years on: what's become of England’s original vision of...
In 1915, the Metropolitan Railway coined the term Metroland to describe a band of countryside just north-west of London, marketed as a land of idyllic cottages and wild flowers. But amid claims of...
View ArticleCFP - Hard State, Soft City: The Urban Imaginative Field in Singapore |...
With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, we seek to promote discussions on the purview of imaginative representations of the city. As we grasp the richness of ‘representational space’...
View ArticlePANEL SEARCH (EAUH '16): Everyday Experiences and Emotions in Transforming...
Everyday Experiences and Emotions in Transforming Urban Environments, 19th-20th Century (Main session 24)
View ArticleFwd: CFP: New book series: Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East
Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East is devoted to the most recent scholarship concerning historic and contemporary architecture, landscape, and urban design of the Middle East and of...
View ArticleCFP: 5. Architekturtheoretisches Kolloquium (Einsiedeln, 21-24 Apr 2016)
Architect – Head of Household – Investor: the Economy of Planning, Building and Use
View ArticleCFP: Posing the Body: Stillness, Movement, and Representation (London, 6-7...
Posing has been central to art, dance, and sculpture for thousands of years. In recent years, the growing interest in fashion media and modelling has also focused attention on questions of pose and...
View ArticleNalanda may pip Delhi for global heritage tag - The Times of India
NEW DELHI: Months after the Centre withdrew Delhi's nomination for the World Heritage City tag, the state government shot off a letter to the ministry of culture making a fresh bid for the same. It...
View ArticleTiruchirapalli: Smart city consultation throws up a long wish list - The Hindu
A metro or monorail system for the city, operation of green energy buses, retrofitting the Rockfort area, curbs on development around heritage sites and use of private vehicles, and creation of bicycle...
View ArticleFew stocks that may benefit from Narendra Modi’s smart cities project | The...
We list out stocks recommended by three brokerage houses that may benefit from Smart Cities project:SMC Investments and AdvisorsAmbuja Cements: The construction of new housing will surely create much...
View ArticleMapping the 'Urban Fingerprints' and Spatial DNA of Cities - CityLab
Think of it as “spatial DNA,” which is typically mapped out by urban designers and researchersin black-and-white diagrams. Black shapes indicate buildings and white represent the open ground.
View ArticleThe Man Who Wrote Too Well
Over the course of his thirty-six-year career, Reyner Banham wrote 750 articles.
View ArticlePritzker chief to head up European architecture school | News | Building Design
Pritzker Prize chief Martha Thorne has been appointed dean of a Spanish architecture school.Thorne, executive director of the international architecture prize for the last decade, takes up her new post...
View ArticlePetition - Save! National Craft Museum in New Delhi May Soon Be History
Today, National Craft Museum on the five-acre premises holds 35,000 distinctive pieces reflecting Indian craft traditions through painting, embroidery, textiles, clay, stone and wood, all housed in the...
View ArticleCFP: Symposium - The Official Architect; missing chapters in the history of...
Official architects, if considered at all, are now most readily associated with the work of the once powerful local authority architects departments of the post-war era. However they have an earlier...
View ArticleCFP: Transdisciplinarity in Architectural Practice - Inflection Vol. 3: New...
In an age of globalised collaboration, architecture, as an isolated discipline, seems no longer equipped to address the demands of contemporary society. One solution offered in this crisis of relevance...
View ArticleCFP: CITIES AND CITY PLANS: THE PAST AND THE FUTURE - 7-9 April 2016, Cezayir...
CPUD '16 / City Planning and Urban Design Summit and Conference. The conference is coordinated by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center)and will be organized by B?LSAS (Science, Art,...
View ArticlePUB/CFP: Architecture_MPS to be published through UCL Press from 1 October 2015
From October 1st 2015 the academic journal Architecture_MPS will be published through UCL Press. It remains open access with monthly single issues.The first special issues of the Architecture_MPS / UCL...
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