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Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada 50th Annual Conference Carleton University & Library and Archives Canada Ottawa, Ontario May 27–30, 2025 For its 50th Annual Conference, the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada will return to the place it began in 1974: Ottawa. The conference will be held from May 27 to 30, 2025, hosted by Carleton University and Library and Archives Canada. The SSAC is now accepting proposals for sessions covering all aspects of the built environment in Canada. Scholars, practitioners, and professionals from any discipline whose work relates to the built environment in Canada are welcome to submit. Sessions may relate to history, theory, design, pedagogy or any issue connected to the creation, experience, impact, and understanding of Canada’s built environment. Those interested in chairing a session are invited to email proposals to ssac.2025.seac@gmail.com by end of day Monday, November 4, 2024. The national capital is particularly well suited to celebrating this milestone in the Society’s history. Sitting on traditional, unceded Anishinabe Algonquin territory, it straddles the border between the two original colonies comprising the United Province of Canada (established 1841), and was named capital in 1857. Ottawa, the Outaouais and the surrounding region remain a vibrant, diverse and dynamic blend of peoples and places. The SSAC supports inclusive dialogue and encourages perspectives illuminating the influence and experience of gendered and sexually diverse, BIPOC, and disabled communities. We welcome and encourage co-submissions by established and emerging scholars. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eFh4N5X

Some interesting history regarding the relationship between architecture and artisanship over time.

An excellent article on ‘Ecological Architecture + Decolonized Identity’. These two concepts are flourishing in architecture academic programs and professions. You’re welcome to draw your own conclusions. All I can say is that I see little, if any, applications in urban settings, replete with (Western) technical and cultural regulations.

Call for Papers – Forms of Repair: Care, Restoration, and Redress in the Built Environment - Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada 49th Annual Conference Winnipeg, Manitoba May 22–25, 2024 Deadline: Friday, March 8, 2024 https://lnkd.in/gp-ZBFVt #environmentalhistory #architecture #canadianstudies #builtenvironment

Modern Architecture Through A Horror Lens By interpreting buildings in horror mode, the authors unveil the systemic greed, unsustainable growth, and unchecked power embedded in their foundations. - LA Review of Books

Buildings matter! Architecture matters! Landscape matters!   I’ve been going round university open days with my son, and there’s a lot to think about.   Yes, the course matters and the teaching matters.   But something else matters too: the buildings and the spaces around them.   Because it’s the buildings and spaces which make a place. And some places make you feel good, while others don’t. I work with architects so there's nothing surprising to me about any of this, but why aren’t we – as a society, as humans – talking more about this stuff?   ************** PS In my day, parents didn’t go on university visits – you went on your own – but times have changed. Now open days seem to be as much for the parents as for the students. Why is that? Is it because going to university costs so much more? #architecture #buildings #landscape #universities

OUT NOW 📣 The catalogue of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies Van Der Rohe Awards Young Talent 2023 presents the final degree projects of 110 architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture schools from 88 cities and 27 different European and invited countries. The 264 projects among nominees, shortlisted, finalists and winners of the Young Talent 2023 edition were also exhibited at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice as one of the official Collateral Events, entitled “EUmies Awards. Young Talent 2023. The Laboratory of Education”. The book features the chapter “Looking Back”, which shows the final project of a previous winner of the EUmies Awards: Dominique Perrault, winner in 1996 with the French National Library - Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand in Paris. This publication is now available at 🔗 shopmies.com The EUmies Awards are organised by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe with the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission. They are organised in partnership with the European Association of Architectural Education (EAAE) and the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE-CAE); World-Architects.com | PSA Publishers Ltd. as a founding partner; the European Cultural Centre as a partner in Venice; sponsored by #junglovesarchitecture JUNG GROUP, Jansen agency and Regent Lighting; and with the support of USM Sistemas Modulares and Hotel Alma.⁠ Young Talent Open is an initiative of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe with the support of ACE-CAE, EAAE, WA, Jung, Jansen, Regent Lighting, Alma, USM and ECC and not funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sports and Culture. Neither the European Union nor the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sports and Culture can be held responsible for them. #YoungTalent #EUmiesAwards #EUmiesAwards2023 #architecture #Europe #project #architect #landscapearchitecture #urbanplanning #besteuropeanarchitecture #graduationproject #university #labiennaledivenezia

Kharkiv School of Architecture joined the project "UREHERIT. Architects for Heritage in Ukraine: Recreating Identity and Memory" project by developing educational courses for architects on critical reconstruction and research of the heritage of Soviet modernism. Recently, the second conference of the project took place in Stockholm, which was attended by 11 associations of architects from different European countries. The discussion and panel were attended by representatives of the School of Architecture Daria Ozhyhanova, Director of the Bachelor's Program, and Iryna Matsevko, Rector and Lecturer at the KhSA. The panel discussions were intended to become a platform for interaction between European and Ukrainian experience in order to find adequate approaches to working with heritage. The topics of reconstruction and modernist heritage are particularly relevant for Ukraine today. Is it time to delve into the discussion of social values and the search for new meanings for modernist districts of Ukrainian cities now, in a time of war? Do modernist buildings, which are now being traumatized by the war, have a chance for a new life? What role can mass housing play in the context of holistic and sustainable recovery? These questions were discussed at one of the conference panels in which Iryna Matsevko took part. The panel "Capacity building with education and continuing professional development in practice", moderated by Daria Ozhyganova, was aimed at finding ways to meet the need for highly professional specialists and human resources when it comes to heritage preservation and post-war reconstruction in Ukraine.