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24th November 2017, 6.30pm, ICA Cinema For booking: https://www.ica.art/whats-on/social-architecture-designing-risk-and-opportunity-through-housing Following the CHASE workshop “On the Social in Architecture” with PhD students, social housing residents and housing activists, Jonathan Massey will give a talk open to the public. Responding to the… Continue Reading →
The ASSC welcomes contact from early career researchers interested in applying for Postdoctoral Fellowships to be held at Birkbeck. Below are some of the funding bodies that support research in the ASSC’s area that include architectural history, architectural humanities, architecture… Continue Reading →
Friday, 27th October, 18.00-19.30, Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square Susan Buck-Morss, in her Dreamworld and Catastrophe, observed that the end of the Cold War was marked by the passing of the dream-forms of modernity — capitalist,… Continue Reading →
This article was contributed by Dr Joel McKim, a member of the ASSC (from Birkbeck’s Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies) and was published first on Birkbeck Comments. Writing in the 1930s, the Austrian writer Robert Musil famously noted… Continue Reading →
Friday, 3 November, 13.00 – 17.00, Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square Organised by the Architecture Space and Society Centre and supported by the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Please book your (free) place here. This symposium… Continue Reading →
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 6pm, School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, Cinema Free and open to all, please book here This symposium will explore the ways in which the advanced architecture of the early twentieth century in Germany confronted… Continue Reading →
Architecture Space and Society Centre, Birkbeck, University of London – Call for applicants for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships The ASSC welcomes contact from early career researchers interested in applying for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to be held at Birkbeck…. Continue Reading →
Thurs 18 May 6-7.30pm, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, room B03 A blog post about this event can be reached here. This event brings together three speakers to share their research on the relationships between landscape, power, territory and… Continue Reading →
Friday 19 May, 6pm, Gordon Square Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Eileen Gray’s iconic modernist villa E-1027 (1926-1929) in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the Côte d’Azur has recently been opened to the public, following extensive restoration. ‘The Price of Desire,’… Continue Reading →
Wednesday 17 May, 2pm, Room G04, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Join us to explore how women engaged with architecture around the turn of the twentieth century in order to produce public statements of professional identity. This session focuses… Continue Reading →
