CALL FOR PAPERS. DEADLINE EXTENDED: 21.06.2019

We are pleased to announce the international conference Initiations: Practices of Teaching 1^st Year Design in Architecture, organized by the Department of Architecture of the University of Cyprus. The conference will take place between 23-25 October 2019 at Nicosia, Cyprus. Confirmed keynote speakers are Prof. Alberto Pérez-Gómez(McGill University), Patrick Weber (The Bartlett, UCL) and Anna Heringer (Laufen, Germany).

The conference invites architects, design studio teachers, historians, theorists, or anyone from other discipline involved in first year design studio teaching to present their views on the subject. Contributions can range from accounts of specific pedagogical experiments, briefs, case studies, to more theoretical or historical investigations on architectural education and pedagogy in general. The deadline for abstract submission is Monday  June 21st 2019.

Conference proceedings will be published electronically and a selection of extended papers will be included in a book publication on the conference topic after peer review.