[Appel à communications] pour le colloque thématique du European Architectural History Network : “The Built Ocean” (Porto du 10 au 13 septembre 2025) (date limite : 18 janvier 2025)

L’Appel à communications pour le colloque thématique du European Architectural History Network (EAHN) : “The Built Ocean” (Porto du 10 au 13 septembre 2025) (date limite : 18 janvier 2025)

Accédez à l’annonce : EAHN 2025

Comité scientifique

• Christy Anderson, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
• Paul Bouet, EAHN representative, Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Est, Université Gustave Eiffel, membre OCS/AUSser
• Carson Chan, Emilio Ambasz Institute, Museum of Modern Art, New York 
• Nancy Couling, Bergen School of Architecture, ETH Zurich 
• Mari Lending, The Oslo School of Architecture and DesignHelen Rozwadowski, University of Connecticut
• André Tavares, Faculty of Architecture of the University of PortoPanayotis Tournikiotis, EAHN president, National Technical University of Athens

Présentation

Architects require solid ground on which to base their practice, yet oceans have always been a key element shaping the history of architecture and the built environment. This themed conference aims to shift the focus of architectural history from the land to the sea. It will address the planet’s bodies of salt water either as areas of increasing urbanization (through the building of structures such as underwater cables, oil rigs, windmills, etc.), as connectors between space and cultures (navigation routes for people and resources, transported in the form of knowledge, labour, and materials), or as an ecosystem functioning, in connection with the land, as an essential life-support system (defining climatic patterns, providing resources from food to raw materials, and securing services from carbon sequestration to large-scale habitats). The conference aims to bring together scholars representing a wide range of interdisciplinary knowledge and sets out to cover a broad chronological scope, from deep history and archaeological sources to more recent accounts of ecological decline and potential futures. Where is the architecture of the sea? To what extent does the built environment impact saltwater landscapes? What reciprocal impacts do seascapes have on the built environment?

Pascal Fort

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