About this Event
About the symposium
Shifting Ground: Untrodden Sites of Architectural History is the annual end-of-year symposium for 2025-26 Architectural History MA students to present the work of their dissertations.
The symposium invites you to explore the collection of creative and experimental sites this year’s cohort ventured into to undertake their research. These sites span across material urban spaces, archival representations of unfinished plans and hidden architectures. Instead of exclusively reinforcing preconceived ideas of the discipline, this symposium will playfully challenge the boundaries of architectural history while laying out ideas of its limits.
Across three sessions - Liminal Edifices, Domestic Practices, (In)Visible Products – presentations consider how architecture is more than the final output; how architecture’s power and legacies’ are shaped through the ways in which it is organised and reproduced; how a space becomes lived in; how a building can produce products and be one itself. More details of the sessions are provided below in the event schedule.
The day brings together short talks with chaired discussion and audience Q&A, inviting reflections of rich case studies and their associated fieldwork.
The symposium will be held in-person at Room 6.02, The Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB. The symposium will also be broadcasted via Zoom.
The symposium is organised by Architectural History MA students Rose McEnroe, Elizaveta Provotorova and Federica Ionta.
The Architectural History MA was established in 1981 and is currently co-directed by Professor Barbara Penner and Dr Robin Wilson.
This event is from the Bartlett School of Architecture.
Please see the full schedule on our events page.
Event venue & nearby stays
Room 6.02, The Bartlett School of Architecture, London, United Kingdom
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