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Feminisms and the spacialization of resistances: Keeping the fight alive

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Feminisms and the spacialization of resistances: keeping the fight alive

Since the beginning of the first decade of the 21st century, an interest about studies in feminism and architecture was recaptured by some scholars in the Anglo-Saxon context influencing new generations to come. This reviving of women’s studies in architecture had a more difficult path in other latitudes that lacked academic references in different languages, but it would soon blow up starting from the Mediterr...

Local Modernism and Universal Aesthetics

The 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1 Proceedings: Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities; Universal aesthetics are often attached to a narrative about modern architecture that in turn opens up the question of Local Modernism versus an ‘International Style’. With exponential globalization, we witness an effect of a universal aesthetic that can be exchanged throughou...

Spatial inequalities on an urban scale

Desigualdades espaciais à escala urbana

V Congresso International Arquitectura e Género: Acção! Feminismos e a espacial...

O V Congresso Internacional Arquitectura e Género | ACÇÃO. Feminismos e a espacialização das resistências dá continuidade às reflexões que se organizaram desde 2015, principalmente a partir do sul da Europa, permitindo a construção de redes de trabalho, investigação e experiências transcontinentais. Nesta genealogia, com programas e temáticas variados, contam-se os congressos ArquitectAs (2014, S...

George Kubler Shifting South: Architecture History Following Geopolitics

This essay aims to present the shifting relations between North America and the South - South America and the South of Europe - through the work of the historian George Kubler. At the beginning of his career as a scholar, Kubler was invited by the Department of State to participate in a conference on inter-American relations. Later, with the positioning of the United States in World War II, the transatlantic re...

Matrices - Book of Abstracts: II International Congress Architecture and Gender

The Second International Congress on Architecture and Gender will address the theme of Matrices. This concept has several definitions and they are all inclusive by nature. Matrices are environments where things develop, the models or patterns that shape formations, and they can also reinvent an environment. These images are suited to address the current patterns of change regarding architecture and gender.

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Parallel Cities: Film as architectural tool

Parallel Cities is the title of a research project in which film is a central instrument to identify and analyse architectural problems. Film and video are traditionally considered tools for representation and are usually used in the realm of architecture in ways similar to presentation models, perspective renderings and architectural photography. There are however other tools that might be even more important ...