Call for papers: Urban surfaces at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference 2025 in Atlanta

Written By Sabina Andron

Call for papers 📣 “Urban surfaces: architectural perspectives on public walls” at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference 2025 (30 April – 4 May, Atlanta, Georgia)

How do architectural surfaces contribute to the formation of urban character? What can we learn about urban cultures through the study of surfaces? And how can architectural history contribute to these projects?  

Possible themes for papers:

• The social lives of building surfaces

• Research methods for contemporary and historical surfaces

• Heritage and conservation of urban surfaces

• Surfaces as communicative devices: semiotics, atmospheres, signage

• Facadism, urban branding, and veiling of building surfaces

• Inscribing and cleaning surfaces: graffiti, murals, buffing

• Surface maintenance: protecting, cleaning, coating

• Greenwashing, whitewashing, and critical approaches to surface design technologies

Submit an abstract here by 5 June 2024: https://www.sah.org/2025/call-for-papers.

Sabina Andron
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