Literary Architecture: 1500–Present

This in-person interdisciplinary conference aims to address the multifaceted links connecting architecture and literature in a variety of historical periods and cultures.

Focused case studies through to broader surveys crossing time and space are welcome, as are applied contributions by practitioners engaging with these subjects.

• literary studies
• architecture/architectural history
• art/art history
• theatre studies
• design/design history
• heritage and conservation studies

Papers may address the following topics and questions:

• words and architecture: writing spaces
• writers as architects; architects as writers
• literary sites and their interpretation
• imaginary houses
• constructed communities and identities
• preservation, conservation, and ‘improvement’
• spaces for reading and performance
• shared concepts (originality, revival, symbolism, inspiration, group identity, spiritual expression)
• environment and ecocriticism
• the built environment’s impact upon literary form and expression
• writing and building in new technologies (AR, VR, games)
• new practices and publics