CALL FOR PAPERS:

RSA Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting
Chicago, 3-5 April 2008

The Ideal and the Utopian in Renaissance Architecture and Architectural
Theory

This call for papers envisions several panels, addressing the
non-realistic in Renaissance architecture and architectural treatises in
its cultural contexts. Interdisciplinary approaches are especially
welcome.

Topics might include, but are by no means limited to:

- theory vs. praxis
- antiquity restored, imagined, invented?
- the architect's self-conception
- architecture and travel literature
- foundation rituals
- magic, astrology, cosmology
- the metaphysics of mathematics and geometry
- architecture parlante
- the art of memory
- building virtue
- controlling society
- the city's representation in literature and the arts

Please send abstract and short curriculum vitae to Berthold Hub:
berthold.hubgta.arch.ethz.ch

Deadline: 10 May 2007

Selected presenters will need to be members of the RSA by the time of the
conference.

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