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Turin's Castello di Rivoli Tells a Story of the Region's History through Its Architecture

Katherine Allen — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 04:00:00 +0000

Given the sheer magnitude and influence of its recorded history, Italy as we know it is a surprisingly young country. For centuries, the region was divided between powerful (and sometimes warring) city-states, each with their own identity, culture, and, fortunes, and influence. Some are eternally famous. Rome is a cradle of history and heart of religion; cool Milan is a hub of contemporary fashion and design; Florence is synonymous with the Renaissance and all the epoch’s relationship to the arts.

Dronesphere Colloquium

Rene Submissions — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 01:31:00 +0000

Dronesphere Colloquium, through a series of panels and presentations, will address the place of aerial robotics in the city.

It will feature presentations by scholars from design practice, art, architectural history, surveillance studies and engineering. The drone’s “place” within the city will be triangulated through speculative proposals, historical analysis, and a critical engagement with their use in the present.

Keynote presentation:
Liam Young (Sci Arc)

With presentations by:
Ciara Bracken-Roche (UOttawa)
John Harwood (U of T)
Immony Men (OCAD U)
Fiona McDermott (Trinity College / CONNECT)
Hillary Mushkin (CalTech)
Giovanni de Niederhäusern (Carlo Ratti and Associati)
Public Studio (U of T)
Ala Roushan (OCAD U)
Sam Siewert (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical

Somali Architecture Students Digitally Preserve Their Country's Heritage—Before It's Too Late

Evan Pavka — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 09:30:00 +0000

Since the start of civil war in 1991, the political and architectural landscapes of the East African country of Somalia have been unstable. While the country’s urban centers, such as the capital city Mogadishu, boast a diverse fabric of historic mosques, citadels, and monuments alongside modernist civic structures, the decades of conflict have resulted in the destruction of many important structures. And, while the fighting has substantially subsided in recent years, the future of the country's architectural heritage is still far from secure.

Call for Papers: Society of Architectural Historians 72nd Annual International Conference

Rene Submissions — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +0000

The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 72nd Annual International Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, April 24–28. Please submit an abstract no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 5, 2018, to one of the 34 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks or the Open Sessions. SAH encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; scholars in related fields; and members of SAH chapters and partner organizations.

Thematic sessions and Graduate Student Lightning Talks are listed below. The thematic sessions have been selected to cover topics across all time periods

The Bizarre Brutalist Church that Is More Art than Architecture

Lindsey Leardi — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 10:30:00 +0000

Located on a hill in Mauer, on the outskirts of Vienna, the Wotruba Church was the culmination of sculptor Fritz Wotruba’s life (the project’s architect, Fritz G. Mayr, is often forgotten). Constructed in the mid-1970s, Mayr completed the project one year after Wotruba’s death, enlarging the artist’s clay model to create a functional walk-in concrete sculpture. As can be seen in these images by Denis Esakov, the result is a chaotic brutalist ensemble that toys with the boundaries between art and architecture.

Chicago Architecture or Architectural History Scholarship from Chicago Detours

Rene Submissions — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 11:58:00 +0000

Tour company Chicago Detours is awarding one to two students $6,000-10,000 in scholarships for undergraduate or graduate college tuition. These scholarships will be awarded to support students of Chicago history, architecture, tourism, sociology, urban geography or archives.

The scholarships will be awarded on the basis of outstanding academic and extracurricular achievement, demonstrated leadership, financial need, and the value of their intended research in contributing to scholarship of the cultural history or architectural history of Chicago.

Tour guides from Chicago Detours' public tours of architecture, history and culture have donated half of their gratuities to this fund over the last few years. Application

Call for Submissions: 2018 Fitch Funding

Rene Submissions — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:32:00 +0000

Since 1989, the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation has been in the vanguard of historic preservation practice and theory. The mission of the Fitch Foundation is to support professionals in the field of historic preservation, and to achieve this we provide mid-career grants to those working in preservation, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, materials conservation, decorative arts, architectural design and history, and allied fields.

Applications for 2018 funding are now being accepted. Applications must be submitted by October 25, 2017, 11PM EST. Applicants may apply for one of three available grants: the FITCH Mid-Career Fellowship, the Richard L. BLINDER Award

2017 H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship

Rene Submissions — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 18:00:00 +0000

The Society of Architectural Historians’ prestigious H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship will be offered for 2017 and will allow a recent graduate or emerging scholar to study by travel for one year. The fellowship is not for the purpose of doing research for an advanced academic degree. Instead, Professor Brooks intended the recipient to study by travel and contemplation while observing, reading, writing, or sketching.

Read Dozens of Historical Architecture Books for Free Online Thanks to New Library Exhibition

Megan Schires — Sun, 28 May 2017 09:30:00 +0000

Buffalo and Erie County Public Library of Buffalo, New York, has recently opened a new exhibit at their Central Library titled Building Buffalo: Buildings From Books, Books From Buildings. The exhibit will feature a large selection of rare, illustrated architectural books from the Library’s collection dating from the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The bonus for those who are geographically distant from Buffalo is that, as part of the exhibit, the Library has also made dozens of historical architecture books available online, completely digitized and free to the public.

Call for Papers Chicago Schools: Authors, Audiences and History

Rene Submissions — Sat, 06 May 2017 19:30:00 +0000

“Chicago Schools” is an international peer-reviewed graduate student symposium that explores the interplay between the individual and collective in the process of making history. The symposium, hosted by the IIT College of Architecture PhD Program in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, will engage with and enhance the dialogue around the Biennial theme, “Make New History,” by highlighting graduate student contributions in architecture, design, humanities, and architectural and urban history.

Call for Papers: Society of Architectural Historians 71st Annual International Conference

Rene Submissions — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 18:00:00 +0000

The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 71st Annual International Conference in Saint Paul, MN, April 18–22. Please submit an abstract no later than 5:00 p.m. CDT on June 15, 2017, to one of the 45 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks or the open sessions. The thematic sessions have been selected to cover topics across all time periods and architectural styles. SAH encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; scholars in related fields; and members of SAH chapters and partner organizations.

Call for Proposals: Norden Fund Travel Grant

Rene Submissions — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:05:00 +0000

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:  The Deborah J. Norden Fund

archleague.org/nordenfund

DEADLINE: SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017, 11:59 P.M. EDT

The Deborah J. Norden Fund, a program of The Architectural League of New York, was established in 1995 in memory of architect and arts administrator Deborah Norden. The Fund has supported a fascinating array of projects, from a study of the Cambodian modernist Vann Molyvann, to the social impact of new architecture and planning interventions in Medellin, Colombia, to the insertion of built form into fragile ecosystems in Australia, to the stereotomy of complex surfaces in French Baroque architecture.

HOW TO APPLY
Applicants must submit a maximum three-page

Explore the Fascinating Overlap of Architectural Styles Throughout History With "The Piranesi Project"

Lauren Crockett — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:00:00 +0000

Driven by an intrigue in the ruination of Roman architecture, Brazilian architect, and photographer Olympio Augusto Ribeiro has undertaken a fascinating comparative analysis of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's architectural etchings and the scenes as they stand today. Travelling to each of the Italian sites brought to life in Piranesi's drawings, Ribeiro has managed to recreate the original angle and shot, eventually compositing them together to create collages which cross time periods.

Buildings vs. Movies: Comparing Budgets of Blockbusters and Notable Architecture Projects

Patrick Lynch — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 12:45:00 +0000

When it comes to expensive artforms, architecture undoubtedly tops the list (even if the artistic merits of some of the absolute priciest buildings are sometimes dubious). But what may not be so obvious is that many of architecture’s iconic works have been completed on budgets not so dissimilar to the work of another artistic industry: filmmaking. Each with their own set of merits, works from both categories have transcended time, confirming that (in most cases) they have more than returned on their initial investment.

Society of Architectural Historians 70th Annual International Conference

Rene Submissions — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 04:30:00 +0000

The Society of Architectural Historians will host its 70th Annual International Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, from June 7–11, 2017. Meeting in Glasgow reflects the increasingly international scope of the Society and its conference, and we expect SAH members from all over the world to join us in Scotland's largest city, world renowned for its outstanding architectural heritage. This is the first time that SAH has met outside North America since 1973, when it planned a joint meeting in Cambridge with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Architectural historians, art historians, architects, museum professionals and preservationists from around the world will convene to present new research on the history of the built environment.

Call for Applications: H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship

Rene Submissions — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 07:00:00 +0000

The Society of Architectural Historians’ prestigious H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship will be offered for 2016 and will allow a recent graduate or emerging scholar to study by travel for one year. The fellowship is not for the purpose of doing research for an advanced academic degree. Instead, Professor Brooks intended the recipient to study by travel and contemplation while observing, reading, writing, or sketching.

These Are the Best Architecture Images from the NYPL’s New Public Domain Collection

David Douglass-Jaimes — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:30:00 +0000

Last week the New York Public Library made over 180,000 images from their digital archives available in the public domain, and free for high-resolution download. Not only are the images available for download, but since they are in the public domain and free of any copyright restrictions, users have the freedom to get creative and alter, modify, and reuse the images in any manner they see fit. Featuring a wide variety of images including drawings, engravings, photographs, maps, postcards, and in some cases, digitized copies of entire books, the collection has been noted for fascinating historical artifacts such as a set of color drawings of Egyptian gods and goddesses, and a digitized book from the 18th century containing over 400 color plates depicting various current and historical fashion trends.

Do Architectural Preservationists Know What They’re Fighting For?

Rory Stott — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:00:00 +0000

If there’s one thing that can get the architectural community up in arms, it’s the threat of demolition being placed over a much-loved building. Whether it’s a 44-year-old bus station, a 38-year-old hospital, or even a 12-year-old art museum, few other news stories can raise such a sustained outcry. And recently, some have started to turn their eyes toward the next wave of preservation battles: the upcoming crop of Postmodern buildings which are increasingly being placed under threat. But in all of these heated debates about preservation, do people really know what they’re arguing for?