HOUSE & HOME '18 / International Interdisciplinary Architecture and Urban Studies Conference will be held at Nippon Meeting Halls in Istanbul. The conference is coordinated by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center) and will be organized by BILSAS (Science, Art, Sport Productions).

The event will be held on the same days with LITERATURE, ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN SPACE '18 / International Interdisciplinary Conference on Literature, Architecture and Urban Space. Participants will be able to attend any of the sessions of these conferences.

All abstracts are going to be selected according to double blind reviews and accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings E-Book with an ISBN number that will be given to you in a DVD box during conference registration.

Selected papers will also be published in DAKAM's "International Journal of Architecture and Urban Studies" within a year after the conference.

We invite you to join us at the event in Istanbul and would like to emphasize that proposals from different parts of the world are welcomed.

Historical Perspectives

- The history of home & house

- House design in the 21th century

- Interior design and home

- House in the 20th century

- Architectural movements and house

- Houses of the Architects

- The “Genius Loci” of House

- History of individual spaces and modernity

Social Perspectives

- Politics and House

- Representation of space in the fictional narration and fictional places

- House from the perspective of social sciences (sociology, anthropology etc.)

- Advertisement, fashion and home

- City Planning and daily life

- Social media and living in the digital space

- Physiological perspectives to the house

- House & Architectural Education

- Ideological and historical dimensions of architectural communication and representation of house

(drawings, models, diagrams, digital design techniques etc.)

Theoretical Perspectives

- Definitions and role of “House” as a theoretical discussion

- Daily life and architecture

- Philosophical approaches about house/dwelling

- Definitions of house/home

- Theory of the house: Manifests

- Architectural criticism on housing & house