Summer 2026 Workshops

Schedule

The Costs of Architecture Network is a new forum for scholars to discuss works in progress that address questions related to costs in the history of architecture and the built environment. For more on the workshops in general, please see the call for abstracts (now closed).

All workshops will take place via Zoom, 12–2pm ET, unless otherwise indicated. The events are free, but participants must register in advance. Zoom links and papers will be sent to registered participants about two weeks in advance.

For updates, please sign up for the Costs of Architecture mailing list here.

Upcoming Events

Workshop 1: Costs of Labor
Friday, June 26
12–2pm ET

Register

Lucia Galaretto, “State Building: Accounting for Labor and Materials in Colonial Andes”
Abstract

Fatema Tasmia and Adam Przywara, “Making Independence Concrete: Material Substitution and the Costs of Postcolonial Architecture in Bangladesh”
Abstract

Respondent: Jay Cephas

Workshop 2: Costs of State
Thursday, July 9
12–2pm ET

Register

Carrie Bly, “Political Pork and Architectural Assets: The ‘Business Basis’ of US Federal Buildings”
Abstract

Dante Furioso, “Human Costs: Visualizing Forced Labor in Nineteenth-Century Havana”
Abstract

Respondent: Maria Gonzalez Pendas

Workshop 3: Costs?
Thursday, July 16
12–2pm ET

Register

Claire Zimmerman, “What Access? Buildings and Political Economy”
Abstract

Nushelle de Silva, “Averting Catastrophe on Paper and Property in the Art Museum”
Abstract

Respondent: TBD

Workshop 4: Costs of Capital
Thursday, July 23
12–2pm ET

Register

Chelsea Spencer, “The Alchemy of Land and Labor: Mechanics’ Lien Laws and the Political Economy of Improvement in the United States”
Abstract

Michael Faciejew, “Branching Eurafrica: The Financial Architectures of the BNCI, 1940s–1960s”
Abstract

Respondent: Eva Schreiner

Workshop 5: Costs of Politics
Thursday, August 6
12–2pm ET

Register

Iris Giannakopoulou, “Accounting for Subversion: Anticommunism and the Political Economy of Cost in Postwar Housing”
Abstract

Madeleine Aquilina, “The Financialization of the Andean Spatial Practice in Lima, 1958–1969”
Abstract

Respondent: Peter Ekman

Workshop 6: Costs of Tourism

Thursday, August 20
12–2pm ET

Register

Nicole Biewenga, “Bali Tourism Project”
Abstract

Alhelí Harvey, “Anthropological Architecture”
Abstract

Respondent: Diana Martinez