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description: Histories of Postwar Architecture (HPA) – ISSN 2611-0075 is a biannual open-access peer-reviewed Journal that aims to publish innovative and original papers on postwar architecture, with no geographical, methodological, historiographical or disciplinary restrictions. HPA is a scientific journal recognized by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) for disciplinary areas 08,10 and, since 2018, a Classe A journal for disciplinary area 08, sector: 08/E2, Architectural Restorartion and History. HPA is indexed by Scopus database.
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items: CFP_On papers Archives for project, history and prospects
items: UPDATE_HPA_ISSUE17/2025 MOVING TOGETHER THROUGH PARTICIPATION Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi | Architecture as Evolving Storytelling
items: HPA 17_DEADLINE EXTENSION
items: EXTENDED DEADLINE_CFP_HPA_ISSUE 17/2025 MOVING TOGETHER THROUGH PARTICIPATION
items: CFP_HPA_ISSUE17/2025 MOVING TOGETHER THROUGH PARTICIPATION Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi | Architecture as Evolving Storytelling
items: EXTENDED DEADLINE_CFP_Ricardo Bofill Abroad: The International Projection of the Taller de Arquitectura
items: Ricardo Bofill Abroad: The International Projection of the Taller de Arquitectura - Call for Papers - HPA 15/2024
items: The Churches and the City: European experiences between the 1950s and the 1960s - Call for Papers - HPA 14/2023
items: Envisioning Tomorrow’s Cities O.M.Ungers’ Urban Reflections - Call for Papers - HPA 12/2023
items: Fernando Távora at 100 - Call for Papers - HPA 11/2022
items: Leonardo Ricci - Call for Papers - HPA 10/2021
items: Impatient Cities of the Gulf: Post-oil Architecture in Flux - Call for Papers - HPA 8/2021
items: Committed, Politicized, or Operative: Figures of Engagement in Criticism from 1945 to Today - Call for Papers - HPA 7/2020

CFP_On papers Archives for project, history and prospects
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description: Introduction: In 1999, the proceedings of a significant conference on the subject of “archives for the History of Architecture” were published. The conference was organised by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. The objective of the conference was to furnish an initial response to the mounting demand for the organisation, valorisation and preservation of architectural archival fonds, with a focus on both academic institutions and State Archives. The objective of this study was to initiate a functional discussion on the creation of a typological reference tool that would facilitate the identification of the structural elements of documentary complexes. This tool would then be used to select the aspects that could provide researchers working in the field of architecture and, more generally, design-related disciplines with guidance. In the period between the initial confrontation and the present moment, a substantial corpus of research has emerged, encompassing numerous studies and demonstrating significant depth and breadth. Notably, this research has been predominantly conducted within the domain of historical sciences, thereby transcending the conventional paradigm of specialized history, which was historically produced by architects for architects. Over the course of the last three decades, there has been an increasing recognition of the necessity to reintroduce the practice of history to the primary utilisation of documents. This necessity has been compounded by the imperative to establish new archives. It is imperative to acknowledge the significant necessity to modernise methodologies employed in the management of project archives, particularly regarding the promotion of architectural heritage, including its less well-explored domains. This imperative is especially pronounced in the context of contemporary heritage, which, despite its comprehensive status, frequently deviates from the characteristics of heritage from previous eras and encompasses a…
creator: Histories of Postwar Architecture
date: 2026-03-10

UPDATE_HPA_ISSUE17/2025 MOVING TOGETHER THROUGH PARTICIPATION Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi | Architecture as Evolving Storytelling
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description: Following the positive response to the call THROUGH PARTICIPATION Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi | Architecture as Evolving Storytelling and considering the centenary of Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi's birth, the curators, in agreement with the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation for Research and Studies in Environmental Design (VSF) - Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi Archive, have decided to extend the deadline for the call to December 2026. The issue will be published in 2027. HPA Editorial Team
creator: Histories of Postwar Architecture
date: 2026-02-04

HPA 17_DEADLINE EXTENSION
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description: To accommodate the numerous requests received, HPA EDITORIAL TEAM is pleased to announce that the deadline for the submission of contributions to the call for papers CFP_HPA_ISSUE 17/2025 MOVING TOGETHER THROUGH PARTICIPATION Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi | Architecture as Evolving Storytelling has been extended to November 30, 2025. As a consequence, the following deadlines were updated: Accepted authors will be notified by October 31, 2025 January 18, 2026 Publication is expected to be in December 2025. May 2026
creator: Histories of Postwar Architecture
date: 2025-10-03

EXTENDED DEADLINE_CFP_HPA_ISSUE 17/2025 MOVING TOGETHER THROUGH PARTICIPATION
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description: To accommodate the numerous requests received, HPA EDITORIAL TEAM is pleased to announce that the deadline for the submission of contributions to the call for papers CFP_HPA_ISSUE 17/2025 MOVING TOGETHER THROUGH PARTICIPATION Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi | Architecture as Evolving Storytelling has been extended to November 30, 2025.
creator: Histories of Postwar Architecture
date: 2025-09-30

CFP_HPA_ISSUE17/2025 MOVING TOGETHER THROUGH PARTICIPATION Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi | Architecture as Evolving Storytelling
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description: Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (1927-2023) was an Indian architect, urban planner, and academic. Founder, director, and designer of the School of Architecture of Ahmedabad (now CEPT - Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology in Ahmedabad). As the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Prize in 2018, his projects sought to combine modernist experience with tradition, promoting a sustainable architecture that is sensitive to local materials and rooted in the social and cultural context of India through an innovative language. Involved by Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn in the projects in Ahmedabad, Doshi designed landmark works in contemporary architectural history, addressing urban design across various scales. Among the many projects carried out since the 1950s, paradigmatic examples include the research lines developed for Sangath, his studio in Ahmedabad, the Aranya Low-Cost Housing settlement in Indore, and the Indian Institute of Management campus (IIM) in Bangalore. By examining his theoretical contributions — where Doshi’s philosophy tends to merge rather than distinguish between artistic and architectural disciplines — this Call for Paper aims to delve deeper into the figure of one of the foremost masters of contemporary Indian architecture, with the goal of identifying new research perspectives. His projects, writings, drawings, and paintings, as well as the interpretation of his thought through his completed works, represent important references that pave the way for further studies and research, also in light of their influence on contemporary Indian and international architecture. Doshi considered architecture as a means to improve the quality of life and stated that each project should serve as a bridge between the past, present, and future. Deeply connected with Hindu culture, an evolutionary principle appears to link his architectural and artistic production, where symbolic imagination and dwelling practices find new combinations through a natu…
creator: Histories of Postwar Architecture
date: 2025-01-24

EXTENDED DEADLINE_CFP_Ricardo Bofill Abroad: The International Projection of the Taller de Arquitectura
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description: The deadline for the proposals’ submissions for the CFP titled “Ricardo Bofill Abroad: The International Projection of the Taller de Arquitectura” (HPA issue no. 15) has been extended until February, 28. The issue will be edited by Antonio Pizza, Marta García Carbonero, Marisa García Vergara and Julio Garnica. The Call for Papers is promoted by the research project RETRANSLATES01. Reflections, from Europe, on architecture in Spain: urban projects, public facilities, design and interventions in heritage (1976-2006), PID2022-138760NB-C21 funded by MCIN /AEI/10.13039/501100011033 DOI/ FEDER, EU. We would also remind here the potential areas of research indicated by the editors that can be explored without limitations: RBTA beyond Spain: relations between Spanish and international works. The reception of the work of RBTA in international mass media. The “French Years” of RBTA: between urban planning, political management and relations with power. The international networks of members of the Taller’s professional team. Read the CFP's full text here: Ricardo Bofill Abroad: The International Projection of the Taller de Arquitectura - Call for Papers - HPA 15/2024 | Histories of Postwar Architecture Papers should be submitted in English using https://hpa.unibo.it/user/register The guidelines for paper submission are available at https://hpa.unibo.it/about/submissions#authorGuidelines We are available for any clarification needed. In case, write to redazione.hpa@unibo.it.
creator: Histories of Postwar Architecture
date: 2025-01-08

Ricardo Bofill Abroad: The International Projection of the Taller de Arquitectura - Call for Papers - HPA 15/2024
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description: This Call for Papers is promoted by the research project RETRANSLATES01. Reflections, from Europe, on architecture in Spain: urban projects, public facilities, design and interventions in heritage (1976-2006), PID2022-138760NB-C21 funded by MCIN /AEI/10.13039/501100011033 DOI/ FEDER, EU. In the early 1960s, Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill (1939-2022) designed his first works in Barcelona. These works represented a unique synthesis of local architectural tradition and the emerging challenge of various forms of urban utopia, which was unprecedented in Spain during this period. In his first residential buildings, Ricardo Bofill skilfully introduced a code of realism that he shared with the rest of his contemporary Catalan colleagues. However, dissatisfied with the limitations of architecture and the political, economic and social reality of the country, he founded in 1963 the “Taller de Arquitectura” (Architecture Workshop; RBTA). It was an unorthodox, multidisciplinary, international team, comprised of architects, engineers, mathematicians, sculptors, painters, sociologists, writers, philosophers, musicians and film-makers. RBTA’s analyse the problem of the contemporary city and the relationship with and between its inhabitants in order to design a new, alternative architecture for the city. From then on, Bofill undertook an adventure of broad horizons, although he remained faithful to the formal legacy of Antoni Gaudí’s work, to the political commitment of the GATCPAC of the 1930s, and to the professional ethics of José Antonio Coderch. His works soon aroused the interest of the main international media: the residential buildings on Compositor Bach Street (Barcelona, 1962-63), the Gaudí district in Reus (Tarragona, 1964-70), the tourist complex in Calpe (Alicante, 1965-70), as well as the Kafka Castle (Sant Pere de Ribes, Barcelona, 1966-70) or the Walden-7 (Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona, 1970-75), among many others, were widely published in the main European publica…
creator: Histories of Postwar Architecture
date: 2024-04-03

The Churches and the City: European experiences between the 1950s and the 1960s - Call for Papers - HPA 14/2023
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description: The Cardinals Josef Frings (1887-1978) in Cologne, Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira (1888-1977) in Lisbon and Giacomo Lercaro (1891-1976) in Bologna between the 1950s and 1960s are at the apex of a geographical triangle with dense relations that have not yet been exhaustively explored. Committed to the liturgical movement and the conciliar debate, Frings, Gonçalves Cerejeira and Lercaro – in a lively framework of episcopal initiative at the European level – promoted a cultural revolution in little more than ten years that would have important consequences not only from an architectural and artistic point of view in the Catholic sphere, but also in other Christian denominations. In this sense, no less significant are the experiences in Austria, France, Spain and Northern Europe where architects are involved by patrons – more or less pastorally up-to-date – in the construction of new religious centres. The construction – or more limitedly, the debate on these new ecclesiastical buildings alone – contributes to weaving a dense web of relationships that constitute an extremely significant chapter in the history of architecture and town planning in the second half of the 20th century. The relations established between the ecclesiastical hierarchies, politicians, intellectual scholars of religious and social sciences, architects and artists lead to the construction of thousands of new churches throughout Europe in a short time, even before the post-conciliar revolution. These were immediately understood by all the institutional stakeholders and communities involved not only as indistinct pieces of the complex mosaic of the neighbourhood, but as identity points of the new settlement realities, architectural, social and cultural nerve centres for the residents. The ecclesiastical system, in the same years, is reorganised not only in the expansion areas, but also in the more stratified neighbourhoods: the restoration of churches damaged during the war, the debate on the issue of ‘…
creator: Histories of Postwar Architecture
date: 2023-08-03

Envisioning Tomorrow’s Cities O.M.Ungers’ Urban Reflections - Call for Papers - HPA 12/2023
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description: Against the background of crisis that the city is confronted with today, this Call for Papers is addressed to those truly visionary and experimental aspects, in the research of the German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926-2007), that can serve as a starting point for the visions of the cities of tomorrow and that, so far, scholarly work has not sufficiently deepened. This Call for papers focuses on Ungers’ radical vision of future cities that exceeds his rational approach to form, morphology and urban transformation, to which he is too often reduced, despite his multifarious activities as a visionary architect, farsighted planner and scrupulous intellectual. A look with new eyes at the urban visions that Ungers developed in the Sixties and Seventies, can open fresh insights into the increasingly complex contemporary urban systems, as diversity, new traffic systems, climate change, biodiversity, affordable housing, land and energy sustainability, and stimulate imaginative reflections and scenarios for new urban perspectives. The City in the City: Berlin Green Archipelago is one of the many original ideas for investigating Ungers’ experiments regarding the future city, it allows the appraisal of his critical commitments and thoughts with the cultural experience of the city itself. The work of Oswald Mathias Ungers constitutes an inexhaustible source of research for its power to embrace the most diverse fields of culture, art, literature, sociology, economics, and photography. Everything seems to have been explored by contemplating the most different aspects. His desire was to catalogue and address all the possibilities of action in the field of the transformation of the built environment, whether it is landscape, public space, or a simple dwelling. On the one hand, his experiments concerning the architectural work, such as geometry, form, the relationship with images, analogy, and the autonomy of architecture seem to have already been partly explored. On the other…
creator: Histories of Postwar Architecture
date: 2023-02-13

Fernando Távora at 100 - Call for Papers - HPA 11/2022
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description: Fernando Távora was born in Porto on 25 August 1923. A leading figure in Portuguese architecture in the second half of the 20th century, Távora is the author of dozens of built works – most of which are located in northern Portugal – an urban planner, a prominent lecturer first at the Escola de Belas Artes and then at the Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto, a refined intellectual and prolific writer. Despite his early arrival on the international scene, especially in the decades immediately after World War II, and notwithstanding his authoritative standing in his homeland, his choice to work specifically in the region where he was born and had always lived made it difficult for him to become known abroad, his fame deriving mostly from his being a “teacher” of famous “pupils” such as Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura. In recent years, thanks to the efforts of his heirs and the Marques da Silva Foundation, which holds his archive, there have been a number of scientific studies on every aspect of his work. The wealth of these new excavations and recent, fundamental publications such as the critical and anastatic edition of the Diario di Bordo (Matosinhos 2012) or the impressive volume “O Meu caso” Arquitectura, imperativo ético do ser 1937-1947 (Porto 2020), which have made new archive material available, rather than exhausting the historical-critical topics related to Távora’s work, have shed light on its richness and breadth, suggesting countless possible lines of research. The issue is published on the occasion of the Centennial of Fernando Tavora’s birth (2023) and organised in partnership with the Scientific Committee of the Italian Centennial, hosted by the Dipartimento di Architettura Università di Bologna, Departamento de Arquitectura Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto, Fundação Marques da Silva, Politecnico di Milano Polo Territoriale di Mantova. The Committee promotes a programme of events aimed at r…
creator: Histories of Postwar Architecture
date: 2022-05-16

Leonardo Ricci - Call for Papers - HPA 10/2021
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description: Leonardo Ricci (1918-1994), eclectic figure in the architectural study of the postwar period in Italy and abroad, received his education under the guidance of Giovanni Michelucci in Florence, where he had several academic assignments starting from 1945. He was Director of the Town Planning Institute from 1965, Head of the Faculty of Architecture from 1971 and visiting professor at M.I.T. (1959-1960), Pennsylvania State University (1965-1969), University of Florida (1969-1972), and Kentucky University (1972-1980s). George Braziller, editor of Ricci’s book Anonymous (XX century) (1962) defined him as “a visionary profoundly concerned with the state of twentieth-century man in what he consider[ed] to be a time of transition between an old civilization and a new civilization struggling to be born.… He [saw] architecture as a creative act, and the obligation of the architect to make the actions of man come alive”. Ricci strongly believed in the potential of art, architecture, and the synthesis of the arts to build a suitable world for the 20th-century man. His work ranged from designing community space during the postwar reconstruction in Italy to microstructural models as a response to a growing need in contemporary architectural culture. His work across the decades could be understood through the “form-act” design method, which was founded on the refusal of a priori forms and on the belief that morphological results could be achieved after analysing human actions and activities. Leonardo Ricci’s existential position shifted from the search for a new vision of the world and spread to architecture after World War II, apparently detached from the study of the human soul yet deeply involved in the fervour associated with the city. His conception of “anonymous architecture” marked a precise effort to achieve a necessary change in architecture and urban planning by investigating the field of Visual and Urban Design. Histories of Postwar Architecture Open Lab contributed to t…
creator: Histories of Postwar Architecture
date: 2021-05-21

Impatient Cities of the Gulf: Post-oil Architecture in Flux - Call for Papers - HPA 8/2021
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description: Today’s general perception of Gulf cities is based on the assumption of a futuristic vision; a visionary development and a cluster of hi-tech constructions. Since the striking of oil, this ‘brave new world’ has been a testing ground for experimental, risk imbued architecture and real estate. The sudden affluence and ambition of the rulers to demonstrate progress and social advancements (sometimes expressed through outlandish ‘iconic’ designs) has certainly fired this drive. The building of cities seemed an appropriate culvert for the vast funds generated, turning what was once barren into a fertile land. Furthermore, there is an ever-present sense of the ‘tabula-rasa approach’ that forced (or perhaps tempted) architects to pursue different and alternative design processes. Gulf cities seem to permit the idea, if not always the reality, of being able to ‘start again’, to be re-made, re-imagined and re-Modernised. There is a sense of being forever in the ‘now’, with ‘historical’ projects stretching back mere decades. Perhaps this desire to continually reinvent brought about shortcomings in early Modernist paradigms, and the rapid rise of new social/cultural/artistic concepts (such as pop art/metabolism/structuralism/post-modernism/idiosyncratic and so on). These preliminary reflections offer an image of the Gulf as a fluid ambit that challenged designers for several decades in the light of a central question: how do architects build in a place with a constantly changing context? How are ideas of history, tradition, memory, and heritage constructed in this flux? In the second half of the 20th century, the circumstantial conditions generated a series of experimental, utopian, sometimes unbuildable projects with a high level of idealisation. Some are renowned such proposals as Wright’s plan for Baghdad or the Smithsons’ Kuwait mat-building. Many are still to be unearthed as they were shelved and never implemented, or abandoned along the way, altered or demolished. In oth…
creator: Histories of Postwar Architecture
date: 2020-07-30

Committed, Politicized, or Operative: Figures of Engagement in Criticism from 1945 to Today - Call for Papers - HPA 7/2020
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description: Issue edited by Hélène Jannière (Université Rennes 2) and Paolo Scrivano (Politecnico di Milano) Call for paper deadline: July 31, 2020 NEW DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 In a 1995 article on the renewal of architectural criticism, French architect and critic Bernard Huet referred to Charles Baudelaire to define art criticism as necessarily – in the poet’s words – “partial, impassionate, political”. During the 1990s, perhaps as a reaction to the 1980s, when in many specialized publications architectural criticism was identified as “communication” or even as promotion of architects and architectures, it emerged an extensive nostalgia for a notion of criticism associated to the historical avant-gardes. In this “committed” criticism or in the “politicized” one it was possible to emphasize the critic’s influential and active role in discovering, promoting, and intellectually supporting groups of artists or architects. The idea of a “golden age” of criticism has thus spread, being from time to time related to the end of the 19th century, to the 1920s, and to the 1960s and 1970s. This issue of HPA intends to collect studies devoted to historical examples of “committed” and “politicized” criticism, reflecting on the real meanings of these concepts and on the themes and subjects to which they are tied. On the one hand, the figure of “committed” critic might be linked to the art and architecture avant-gardes from the end of the 19th century onward, hence defining a privileged relationship between critic and artist/architect; on the other, “politicized” criticism can be characterized as the understanding in political terms of architectural and city phenomena. Among the questions the issue wants to address are: in which way do these definitions of “committed” and “politicized” criticism come close to or differ from the definition of “operative” criticism, in the various meanings that have been attributed to it since Manfredo Tafuri? What are the theoretical tools, the rhetorical …
creator: Histories of Postwar Architecture
date: 2020-04-20