3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE

Location: Seville, Spain
Conference Date: 14-16 November 2013
CFP Deadline: 30 June 2013

https://sites.google.com/site/arquitecturareligiosa2013/

You may participate to the conference with Papers or Board Panels.

Papers

Those interested in participating with a paper must send an abstract (300 words) and a summarised CV (150 words) to the Conference Secretariat.

Deadline: 30st of June, 2013

The papers will have a máximum length of 2000 words, written in Word (doc or rtf) format. NOTE: docx format is EXCLUDED.

A maximum of 20 images in independent jpg files, referred to at the end of the text, (Fig. 01) may be included.

All the bibliographical references will be adjusted to the criteria established in The Chicago Style (Notes and Bibliography). A list of selected papers will be published in this web on the 15th of July, 2013. Once the Conference has finished all the accepted papers will be published in a digital journal with a specifically assigned ISSN.

Board Panels

The second modality to take part in the Conference will be the Panel – Board format.

A PRAYER AND SILENCE SPACE will be planned, adaptable to diverse urban circumstances, where one can attend individually or in group, to retreat in silence and worship the Eucharist. The site must provide the possibility to celebrate Catholic worshipping events. Versatility, portability and iconic capacity will be valued.

The project will be submitted in a single DIN A1 vertical panel, which will include maps, images and a small text (250 words máximum).

Deadline: 15th of October, 2013.

The Project will be sent to the Conference Secretariat in two formats: digital pdf format (via e-mail) and physical-rigid format (by post).

All the Conference participants will be able to vote the best design, which will be registered as such in the records.

Città mediterranee in trasformazione

Location: Naples, Italy
Conference Date: 13-15 March 2014
CFP Deadline: 31 July 2013

http://www.iconografiacittaeuropea.unina.it

The Conference, open to scholars from national and international circles, aims to take stock of the historiography on the Mediterranean city during the contemporary age, with reference to its identity, structure and image from the beginning of the industrialization to post-Enlightenment and bourgeois age, up to the themes concerning the evolution/involution of the territory and of the post-industrial landscape, as well as the development of the tourist model between the 19th and 20th centuries.

Form Finding, Form Shaping, Designing Architecture

Location: Mendrisio, Switzerland
Conference Date: 10-11 October 2013
CFP Deadline: 28 April 2013

http://www.arc.usi.ch/en/aam_ris_ist_isa_call_for_apers_en_it.pdf

CFP: International Conference: Form Finding, Form Shaping, Designing Architecture (Mendrisio, Switzerland, 10 – 11 Oct 13)

Istituto di storia e teoria dell'arte e architettura (ISA) - Accademia di architettura - Università della Svizzera italiana /
Institute of History and Theory of Art and Architecture, Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio, Switzerland, October 10 – 11, 2013
Deadline: April 28, 2013

International Conference: Form Finding, Form Shaping, Designing Architecture. Experimental, aesthetical and ethical approaches to form in recent and postwar architecture
Call for Papers
International Conference
Mendrisio, Switzerland, October 10 – 11, 2013

Architect Frei Otto introduced the concept of “form finding” in opposition to the shaping of forms which in his opinion can only result in a deformation. He instead wanted to find, to explore and to optimize form. Today, methods of light construction are being optimized by means of adaptive structural systems into an ultra light construction. In this way, geometries developed using the principles of form finding demonstrate high structural performance together with high material efficiency. Concurrently, there has been an emergence of seemingly or factually arbitrary forms in contemporary architecture. How free, how accidental should or may architectural form be? Which processes lead to form? Which considerations influence the process of design? What role does the ‘design tool’ play? Are there aesthetic and ethical criteria, which can be influential to form?

“We almost only recognize the makers or the avoiders of form. The searchers of form are very rare,” stated Frei Otto in a 1977 interview with Heinrich Klotz who added: “Similarly contradictory is our architecture which, on one hand, demonstrates an almost unsurpassable degree of functional fidelity while on the other hand, an almost unsurpassable exoticism in the bewildering freedom of form.” Is the architecture of the twenty-first century still oscillating between poles like this?

We would like to discuss this complex of themes in the framework of an International Conference in October. Host of the event will be the Istituto di Storia e Teoria dell'Arte e dell'Architettura (ISA), Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana in Mendrisio, Switzerland. Co-operation partner is the Chair of Structural Design, ETH Zürich, Prof. Dr. Joseph Schwarz and Dr. Toni Kotnik. We are aiming to attract participants from various fields. In order to promote an ‘exploratory’ character, the workshop will draw from established as well as young and emerging researchers in their fields. A publication of the conference contributions is planned.

We will help participants with travel and accommodation expenses.

Please submit no later than April 28, 2013 via email to Elisabeth.Bergmann@usi.ch the following:

- proposal of no more than 2.000 characters for a 20 minute presentation in English or Italian (both in the body of the email and in an attached document)
- name, professional affiliation (if applicable), address,
telephone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses
- a current one-page CV
- a list of connected publications

Information and Contact:
Dr. Elisabeth Bergmann
Elisabeth.Bergmann@usi.ch, +41 (0)58 666 57 57

Prof. Dr. Sonja Hildebrand
Sonja. Hildebrand@usi.ch

Transnational Architecture Group 2013 Conference: The Influence of Fry and Drew

Location: Liverpool, UK
Conference Date: 10-11 October 2013
CFP Deadline: 2 June 2013

http://transnationalarchitecturegroup.wordpress.com/2013-conference/

THURSDAY 10TH – FRIDAY 11TH OCTOBER 2013

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY, U.K.

For over fifty years, E. Maxwell Fry (1899–1987) and Jane B. Drew (1911–96) were integral members of the English architectural avant-garde. The Fry and Drew partnership – in its various incarnations – was a magnet for architects and architectural students from all over the world, giving the practice a distinctly international outlook. Their built works, from the 1920s to the 1980s, cross the globe from Europe to South-east Asia.

This conference seeks to investigate the themes and movements of twentieth century architecture and town planning that have been influenced by the work of Fry and Drew, and vice versa. What is the context of Fry and Drew’s architecture? Is it possible to identify a FryDrew strand of Modernism or a house style? What is their architectural legacy?

We welcome papers from scholars and practitioners, and encourage proposals from early career researchers and graduate students. Papers might address, but are not limited to:

• Inter-war Modernism – early influences, the rise of Modernism in England, collaborators and creative networks (such as contractors, engineers, artist, patrons).

• Post-war Modernism – the Festival of Britain style, the Brutalist movement and younger British modernists, questioning the modernist agenda, the work of Fry and Drew’s former employees.

• Colonialism – comparisons of colonizers in architectural and theoretical terms, war-time postings, colonial frameworks (for example, the role of the Public Works Departments).

• Post-colonialism – tradition and modernity, design and identity, cultural colonialism. For example, Fry and Drew’s work at Chandigarh, in West Africa, throughout the Middle East.

• Tropical Architecture – the use of new technologies and design ideas, its network and legacy, reassessment of the tropical, tropical architecture pedagogies at the Architectural Association and beyond.

• Town Planning – the Garden City model, the neighbourhood unit, modernist planning schemes, the New Towns and post-war rebuilding, the spread and implementation of CIAM guidelines.

• Fry & Drew’s wider influence – their patronage of art, Drew’s significance for women (in architecture), influential personal or professional relationships, their published texts, their involvement in architectural design education.

We invite abstracts of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers. Please email Jessica Holland and Iain Jackson at fryanddrew@gmail.com by Sunday 2nd June 2013.

2013 SESEAH Annual Conference

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Conference Date: 25-28 September 2013
CFP Deadline: 1 May 2013

http://www.sesah2013-charlotte.org/

Call for Papers

Please submit abstracts for proposed 20-minute papers through our online system, which can be accessed at the Submit a Proposal link. The online form will request a brief biography, paper title, and a 300-500-word abstract.

Paper abstract submissions are due by May 1, 2013.

Call for Panels

For the 2013 conference in Charlotte, we are soliciting proposals for pre-formed panels as well as for individual papers. Panels should include four presenters and a moderator who will also serve as panel organizer and the contact person for correspondence with conference organizers. Each paper presentation in the panel is limited to 20 minutes in length.

Please submit abstracts for proposed 20-minute papers through our online system, which can be accessed at the Submit a Proposal link.  The online form will request brief biographies of all panel participants as well as 300-500 word abstracts for the panel and for each paper.

If your paper is being submitted as part of a panel, please do not simultaneously submit an individual abstract. Papers proposed as part of a panel that is not selected for inclusion in this conference will automatically be considered for inclusion in other general sessions.

Panel proposal submissions are due by May 1, 2013.

Please direct questions to legray@uncc.edu.

U&U International PhD Seminar

Location: Paris, France
Conference Date: 3-5 October 2013
CFP Deadline: 30 April 2013

http://www.uu2013.org/
http://media.wix.com/ugd//13196c_0d6e7bbb4ce5cc3a34608de56e44a134.pdf

“Urbanism after urbanism” is the theme of the 7th edition of the U&U International PhD Seminar that will be held at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, under the scientific direction of the Laboratory of Infrastructure and Architecture Planning (LIAT) in October 2013. Continually facing new demands from epistemological or technical society, and now facing an economic and social crisis (especially in Europe), urban planning is forced to question its methods.

The U&U International PhD Seminar is a scientific and academic event that was initiated in February 2004 by OSA, the research unit urbanism and architecture of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and realized in collaboration with its partners in the European Master of Urbanism (EMU): the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft, UPC Barcelone and IUAV Venice where the last session was held in October 2011. Since its origins, the U&U International PhD Seminars have had the intention to connect the research-taking place within EMU with a wide network of researchers and teachers worldwide. The Seminar is intended for PhD Students who wish to present their ongoing research questioning aspects of the field of urban planning in a historical perspective, from a theoretical point of view or with a potential for practical implementation.

The U&U International PhD Seminars seek to promote the exchange of ideas, provoke debate amongst researchers, invite comparisons, cross-pollinate different disciplines and to highlight the latest ongoing research. It is a rare opportunity offered to young researchers to meet with prominent scientists and build a critical argument.

Lost in Conversation: Constructing the Oral History of Modern Architecture

Location: Brisbane, Australia
Conference Date: 1 November 2013
CFP Deadline: 12 July 2013

http://lostinconversationconference.wordpress.com/about/

Oral history is as old as history itself and might be considered the first ‘kind’ of history. The extensive modern use of the term ‘oral history’ is however relatively new, certainly when it comes to the historiography of modern architecture. Even though this novel research method has brought about a significant expansion of the existing canon of modern architecture, its use within the discipline of architectural history and – theory is not (yet?) set in stone and research results are consequently widely diverging. This conference aims to on the one hand explore issues of knowledge-generation relating to modern architecture through the use of oral history and on the other hand problematize the ‘operational’ aspects of this methodology within the discipline.

Questions include, but are not limited to: What specific types of information are disclosed through the implementation of oral history in architectural historiography that would have otherwise remained unknown? How do oral histories ‘form’ and ‘endure’ over time and how does this differ from the construction of ‘written histories’? Does the oral history interview minimize the role of the architectural historian and offer a more ‘authentic account’? Does the popularity of oral history feed into the critical regionalism-bias, offering a more diversified and often more place-based understanding of modernism or, does it conversely support claims of growing globalization in modern architecture? How might oral history unsettle the very foundations of architectural historiography, for instance, does ‘reliability’ become an irrelevant concept or are these oral accounts in fact more rich, nuanced and idiosyncratic? And what role does oral history assume within the architectural archive?

From an operational point of view, the oral history method also gives rise to a set of questions that mainly relate to the positioning of the interviewer vis-à-vis the interviewee. It is common knowledge that up until the 1970s architecture was a largely male-dominated profession. In recent decades however women have become much more visible in the discipline, not only in the architectural practice, but also in architectural history. Many women are – by extension – involved in oral history projects, which leads us to question what the importance is of (what might be called) the ‘erotics’ of oral history methodologies, especially if it is (young) women interviewing elderly men. Beyond sexual dynamics, how are these oral histories affected by cultural or political differences between the interviewer and the interviewee? … In short, what does oral history contribute to the understanding of modern architecture and how much might be ‘lost in conversation’?

Abstracts of no more than 300 words, accompanied by a concise (max. 500 word) biography should be sent to j.gosseye@uq.edu.au before 12 July 2013.