SAH Conference 2027 – Session chaired by Clemens Finkelstein

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SAH Conference 2027 – Session chaired by Clemens Finkelstein

Our colleague Clemens Finkelstein will chair, together with Anny Li, the session “Surrogate Sites: Architecture, Landscape, and Environmental Substitution Design” at the Society of Architectural Historians Conference 2027 in Chicago. A Call for Papers is now open.

The session invites contributions examining how architecture and landscape design have produced simulated environments—from historical gardens to planetary analog sites—as laboratories for environmental experimentation and territorial imagination. It explores how practices of environmental simulation, artificial ecologies, and microclimate construction have shaped architectural and landscape histories across different periods and geographies.

Submission deadline: June 8, 2026
Further information and submission details: sah.org/conferences/chicago-2027/

SAH Conference 2027 – Session chaired by Clemens Finkelstein

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