European Architectural History Network
Second International Meeting
Brussels, Belgium
Conference dates: 31 May-3 June 2012

CFP deadline: 30 September 2011

The European Architectural History Network (EAHN) invites paper proposals for the twenty-three thematic sessions and four roundtable panels to be presented at its Second International Meeting. Sessions and roundtables will cover architecture of all periods, from antiquity, medieval, and early modern, up through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as topics from allied disciplines.

Session titles:

- The Classical Urban Plan: Monumentality, Continuity and Change

- Architecture and Territoriality in Medieval Europe

- Siege Views and the Representation of Cities in Early Modern Europe

- Islamic and Renaissance Gardens: A Case for Mutual Influence?

- Across Geographies: Shifting Boundaries of Renaissance Architectural Historiography

- Court Residences in Early Modern Europe (1400-1700). Architecture, Ceremony, and International Relations

- Travel of Men and Models: Interpreting, Collecting and Adapting French Art and Architecture in Europe During the 17th and 18th Centuries

- Worship, Liturgical Space and Church Building

- Clerical Ties: Architectural Networks and Networking in the Colonial Mission Field, c. 1500-1950

- Urban Representations of the Temporal

- The Spoils of Architectural Training: Studying School Manuals, Teaching Handbooks and Exercises Sheets in Europe (18th to 19th Centuries)

- Communicating Architecture: Working with Documents in Construction

- Shaping a Middle Class Life: Architecture, Domestic Space and Building Programs Since the Birth of Consumer Society

- Engineers and Counterculture

- Regionalism Redivivus. Do We Need a Closer Look?

- The Welfare State Project – Architectural Positions, Roles and Agencies

- Partnership and the Creation of Modern Professional Practices in Architecture and Planning

- New Ideas, New Models? Architectural Representation and its Objects in the Twentieth Century

- The Way Back to an Altered Homeland: Remigration and Reemployment of Architects in Europe, 1935-1970

- Postwar Instrumentalization of the Baroque in Europe and North America

- Holidays After the Fall: History and Transformation of Socialist Holiday Resorts

- “Development” From the Periphery. Architectural Knowledge Exchange Beyond US / Soviet Bipolarity, 1950s-1980s

- Postmodernism - Theory and History

Roundtable titles:

- Neither “Modernism” Nor “Avant-Garde”: A Roundtable Discussion in Honour of the Ninetieth Birthday of Alan Colquhoun

- Politics and Architecture: Definitions, Methods, Possibilities

- The Architectural Historian’s Sources

- Fusion Architecture From the Middle Ages to the Present Day: Incorporation, Confrontation or Integration?

CFP deadline: 30 September 2011

For the complete call for papers, including full instructions for proposal submission, please visit the conference website:
http://www.eahn2012.org

Conference general chair: Hilde Heynen, KU Leuven
Conference venue: Palais des Académies, Brussels

European Architectural History Network (EAHN)
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RMIT - Faculty of Architecture
PO Box 5043
2600 GA Delft
Netherlands

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