Location and Conference dates: Chicago\, February 18&ndash\;21\, 2026.
Sessi on of Affiliated Society or Committee Name: \;Society for Iberian Global Art
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The history of the early modern Iberian world is strewn with stor ies of architectural ambition and engineering innovation that seek to defy \, overcome\, or restructure extant environmental conditions. Land-reclaim ing and flood-controlling projects represent a major thematic in this peri od\, from \;Regi Lagni&nbs p\;in Naples to the \;»å±ð²õ²¹²µ³Ü̈±ð&²Ô²ú²õ±è°À;of Mexico City\, as do seismic-responsive archite ctures such as the famous Earthquake Baroque in the Philippines and Guatem ala\, and as well as post-earthquake architectures in Sicily and Lisbon. E arly modern architecture and engineering is often characterized by new bol dness of ambition in responding to\, attempting to overcome\, or intending to change environmental conditions\, it often yields cycles of loss\, fai lure\, and reiteration\, until new technics are achieved.
This panel seeks to learn from stories of ar
chitectural and infrastructural failure\, innovation\, and redesign\, espe
cially as it relates to practices of colonialism\, from across the Iberian
world. We invite papers that seek to complicate the narrative of architec
tural domination on the land and landscape and search for cases that focus
on moments of disjunction and defeat in the face of environmental factors
\, and the struggle to respond.
Papers may examin
e the consequences of incomplete knowledge of landscapes\, ecologies\, and
materials\, and the cases under consideration may be architectural works
that were unfinished\, hypothetical\, never realized\, or rebuilt after co
nfronting natural disasters and misunderstandings of ground conditions. We
also welcome papers on artworks representing knowledge of materials and e
nvironments\; moments of disaster\, engineering\, and rebuilding\; or chan
ges in understandings of nature and environment.
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