This paper intends to reassess the process by which Nagasaki’s port town was established in 1571. By comparing Japanese and Western historical sources, and confronting them with archeological, geological and topographical data within a GIS database, the coastline of Nagasaki Bay around the mid-16th century was reconstructed, along with a…[Read more]

This chapter provides a general introduction to Christian architecture in Japan during the so-called “Nanban Century” or “Christian Century” (1543-1640). The prayer spaces established by missionaries in Japan consisted in a first phase of the use of
rooms inside private houses or abandoned temples adapted for the purpose; a second…[Read more]

“Sben Korsh and Maxime Decuadin ground their research.”

In “Raising a Family in the Academy,” Architecture Lobby members Joy Knoblauch, Sben Korsh, Brent Sturlaugson, and Olivier Vallerand challenge the longstanding culture of architecture schools that equates dedication to family life and other types of caregiving with a lack of commitment to teaching and scholarship. Rather than exclude families, the…[Read more]

A book of some fifty texts by workers who discuss the social, economic, and political value of their labor in architecture. The contributors are architectural historians, writers, researchers, professors, students, and practitioners, including:

Felipe Aravena, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Daniel A. Barber, Chris Barker, Nick Beech, Joaquin Díez…[Read more]

Inspired by the scholars, activists, and everyday citizens who spoke out, marched, and protested against police killings of African-Americans, we present this collection of short essays that put Black lives at the center of our thinking about architecture and its history.