CALL FOR PAPERS: 1st International Architectural Studies Conference
Encounters with
the 21st Century
May 19-21, 2023
The first Architectural Studies Conference takes encounters with the recent past of architecture focusing mainly on the first two decades of the 21st Century. While this time period witnessed a vast increase in the number of architectural research with a rich variety of approaches, such an increase concurrently rendered evaluating possible implications more difficult. The incentive to bring together and designate an agenda of architectural theories, arguably, has left its place to responding to urgent crises regarding ecology, violent conflicts, economic ambiguity, digital dependence, social injustice and discrimination through gender and postcolonial theories as well as many others, thereby making the task of a possible articulation of architectural research methods a rather delicate one.
ABOUT:
Architectural Studies is a biannual conference series held by the Department of Architecture at Yeditepe University. The conference intends to facilitate intellectual exchange on disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship and practices of architecture through the subcategories foundations, positions, and words. (1) Foundations denote dispositions that act as the limits and potentials of architectural knowledge; (2) Positions entail setting a critical perspective within architectural scholarship and practices; (3) Wordshighlight the practice of writing (on/in) architecture in manifolds forms including criticism, narration, and documentation. Through its framework and biannually varying thematic foci, the conference encourages contributions that critically engage with the existing frameworks and convictions that shape architectural discourse, practices, and constructs.