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19 Nov 2019

Dundee conference welcomes world-class architects to discover the city
The best way to understand society is to look at the cities it has created, say organisers of a major architecture conference taking place in Dundee this week.
The University of Dundee will host the 16th annual conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA).

aerial photo : University of Dundee
The three-day event, Architecture and Collective Life, will see more than 200 delegates from around the globe descend upon the city to discuss the social ties that bind people and environments into settlements, and settlements into civilisations. World-class keynote speakers including University of Pennsylvania Distinguished Senior Research Fellow, Joan Ockman and Dutch architect Professor Reinier de Graaf, a partner in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), who will explore notions of a global village and modern feudalism.
Spanning more than seven academic disciplines and dozens of architectural practices, this year?s international conference will take place in the University?s iconic 1970s brutalist Matthew Building, itself a monument to architecture.
Dr Lorens Holm, one of the organisers of the conference, ...