CFP: Reinterpreting Cities - 24-27 August 2016, Helsinki, Finland
Papers for the Session (Post)communist Urbanism: Reassessing Ideologies in the Contemporary City organized within the 13th International Conference on Urban History which will take place in Helsinki...
View ArticleCFP: Esse magazine - Issue: The Living / Le Vivant
Human beings' relationships with the living world are, in general, conditioned by a logic of instrumentalization and servitude. Western thought in the Cartesian tradition, which has it that human...
View ArticleCons - Kejriwal govt ready to pour cash on Old Delhi havelis
The government is planning a capital grant of Rs 2 crore and a loan of up to Rs 5 crore to the owners of such property in a bid to restore the city’s heritage and attract tourists at the same time. The...
View ArticleA Major Exhibition for an Architect on the Rise - British Starchitect David...
This Saturday, the Art Institute of Chicago will open “Making Place: The Architecture of David Adjaye,” the largest comprehensive survey of the work of the OBE-awarded British architect on the rise,...
View Article‘Architect’ tries to get out of suit because he’s not really an architect |...
You can’t sue me for being a bad architect — because I’m not an architect at all.That’s the nervy claim a Manhattan man made when he was accused of ripping off a billionaire motel mogul and his...
View ArticleEero Saarinen's dormant JFK terminal to become Jet Blue hotel | News | Archinect
JetBlue and MCR had emerged as the frontrunner for the project in recent months amid a field of several competitors. The terminal would be JetBlue’s first hotel project open to the public.
View ArticleZaha Hadid Withdraws From Competition to Design Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Two months after her design for a 2020 Olympic stadium in Tokyo was scrapped by the government because of spiraling costs, the prizewinning architect Zaha Hadid has taken herself out of the running for...
View ArticleZaha Hadid ineligible to participate in Tokyo Stadium design-build...
'Nikken Sekkei LTD: Nikken Sekkei has proceeded with its preparations to team up with Zaha Hadid Architects for developing a proposal for the New National Stadium design & build competition.This...
View ArticleMeet The Photographer Who Immortalized Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture
Fresh out of school, Pedro Guerrero (1917–2012) landed the role of Frank Lloyd Wright's photographer and played a pivotal role in presenting the architect's work to the public.
View ArticlePR: Studying slum dwellers the SEWA way (Short-Term Courses)
AHMEDABAD: The forthcoming Cept Winter School will expose students to various challenges of living in slums and effect of Ahmedabad development interventions on the life of occupants. As part of the...
View ArticleCFP: Allama Muhammad Iqbal and Muslim Thought
Subject Fields: Humanities, Islamic History / Studies, Philosophy, Social Sciences, South Asian History / Studies
View ArticleObama Library Center design competition draws 140 architecture firms |...
The Barack Obama Foundation said Friday that 140 architecture firms asked to be in the running to design the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, so many that the early 2016 target date for selection...
View ArticleReview: The new Broad museum, though efficiently designed, really only comes...
The newest addition to this uneven parade of high-rises, cultural buildings and still-empty parcels is the Broad, a $140-million museum of modern and contemporary art set to open Sept. 20 at the corner...
View ArticleCFP: "Big Data" and Architectural Historiography - session at EAHN (Dublin,...
In line with the current discussions of the "digital humanities", and in the context of political critiques of big data urbanism as potentially undemocratic, this session aims at rethinking, discussing...
View ArticleIn praise of dirty, sexy cities: the urban world according to Walter Benjamin
In the 1920s, Benjamin spent a lot of time in cities such as Moscow, Naples and Marseille – each in its different way giving him a cure to the disease of modern life in general, and the one in which he...
View ArticleIndia-US Strategic meet to discuss smart cities, digital India
The India-United States CEOs Forum set up by President Obama and Prime Minister Modi will be discussing how smart cities can be developed in India as part of a wide ranging agenda, according to Sunil...
View ArticleCFP: The Dynamic City: Futures for the Past, April 1-2, 2016, Boston
Are preservation, diversity, and affordability mutually exclusive in urban America? How can neighborhood identity and community be preserved while engaging with the opportunities of globalization?
View ArticleFilm Theory and Aesthetics: SWPCA | H-Announce | H-Net
Proposals are now being sought for review in the Film Theory and Aesthetics Area. Listed below are possible topics; other topics in the area are also welcome:
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