8,000 metres above the sea level exists what climbers call the “death zone”. This altitude marks the limit for human habitation, above which our species cannot survive. We thrive in the “life zone” – the earth’s land surfaces and oceans, its geological layers beneath, the […]
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Call for Papers: “CFP Land, Air, Sea: Environment during the Early Modern Period”, 72nd Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, April 24 – 28, 2019_Deadline 5th June 2018
CFP Land, Air, Sea: Environment during the Early Modern Period 72nd Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Where: Providence, Rhode Island, USA When: April 24 – 28, 2019 Deadline for abstracts: Jun 5, 2018 Contrary to certain strands of scholarship, environmental thinking […]

Expanded Territories Reading Group: “Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy”_Wednesday 6th June, 17:30, M330
The second Expanded Territories reading group will meet in M330 on Wednesday 06 June at 17.30. Christina Geros will introduce: Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy, edited by Etienne Turpin. The book is available for download or purchase here: […]

The Expanded Territories Reading Group: “Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet”, Tuesday 2nd May, M330, 17:30
The Expanded Territories Research Group in the Department of Architecture has started a reading group, which will meet at 17.30 on the first Tuesday of every month in the Monsoon Assemblages Project Office, Room M330, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS. We will read one agreed […]