Lisbon, September 28 - 29, 2015
Deadline: Jun 5, 2015

Site of Discourse - Thinking architecture through publication

The Site of Discourse research project [PTDC/CPC-HAT/4894/2012]

Host Institution
IHA Instituto de História da Arte / FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Participant Institution
Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território
[Dinâmia/CET-IUL/ISCTE-IUL]

Currently, there’s a widespread consensus that architectural magazines
have played a fundamental role in consecrating identities and giving
rise to new orders of thought on the practice and the representation of
architecture. Editing and projecting have thus become so closely linked
that it seems reasonable to claim that they share a common ground
beyond the contingencies of constructive practice, resting upon a web
of both conceptual and professional relationships.

Some authors have been taking periodical publications as important
research sources; as well as entities able to reconfigure the
theoretical, technical, disciplinary and discursive settings in which
they are grounded and the identity of their protagonists.

The international congress The site of discourse will place the
architectural magazine in the center of the debate, in order to
understand the place that such “printed object” occupies in the
definition of the contemporary architectural discourse — in its
conceptual, theoretical, graphic, material dimensions. The aim is to
reflect on the culture of architectural periodical press in a
geographical and chronologically extended context, crossing
perspectives from different disciplinary traditions, taken the
following topics as starting points:

Panel 1
Dissemination and Reception: Practices and Theories.

Panel 2
Autochthonous, tropical and modern: architectural periodicals looking
beyond Europe

Panel 3
Case Studies: Theory and Practice

Panel 4
Discourse and discipline

Panel 5
Discourse and Ideology

Panel 6
Social composition of architectural criticism

Panel 7
Relations between Architecture, Design and Visual Culture

Panel 8
The housing issue in architectural periodicals

Submission:
We invite the submission of 300 words abstracts in the form provided in
the Submission page of the conference website:
http://sitediscourse.org/the-site-of-discourse/

Deadlines:
Abstract submission 5 June, 2015
Notification of acceptance of abstract 15 June, 2015
Registration 15 July, 2015
Full paper submission 4 September, 2015
Conference 28–29, September, 2015