built environment

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: JSAH Roundtable – Race and the Built Environment in the Iberian World, 1400-1800

Deadline for proposal submissions: 15 May 2023 Histories of architecture and histories of construction continue to debate the relationship of design and craft. The biographical model, privileging the architect’s intellectual gifts and relations to patrons, has long emphasized the circulation of architectural knowledge through treatises, writings, and travel accounts, while histories of construction and theContinue reading “CALL FOR PROPOSALS: JSAH Roundtable – Race and the Built Environment in the Iberian World, 1400-1800”

Doctoral Studentship for Spanish Architecture at the University of Warwick

The university of Warwick is offering a Doctoral Studentship to a UK/EU candidate, focusing on ‘Petrifying Wealth: Religious buildings in Zamora, 11th-13th Centuries: building processes, forms and functions’ Outline of the project The construction of churches or church buildings is obviously as old as the dominance of Christianity in Western societies. The petrification of ecclesiastical wealth,Continue reading “Doctoral Studentship for Spanish Architecture at the University of Warwick”