History of architecture, tracing the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, deals mainly with classifications related constructed environment and architects. Periods in the history of architecture and art, provides certain styles and the struggle between them as a homogeneous sum of common characteristics. Every co-occurrence of similarities among different architects and locations seems to be in need of case by case analysis to find out the sub-limit of being included to the same style.

Focusing on singular objects and approaches, irregularities and dissimilarities begin to come in sight and another discussion appears on the extend of differentiation among a stylistic approach.

Modern movements, owning a self definition provided by the members of a group cannot be excluded from this leakage of belonging. A single building or a designed space may only belong partly to any aesthetical and ideological general frame. The impact of a period or the modern movement on the rest of the world creates more heterogeneous fields to consider on.

In addition to the relativity of the criteria for the movements in architecture, the freedom (or the curse) of being an outsider needs to be discussed, too.

What are the sources and the future results of being an outsider at all, not representing any common theory or attitude? Does every movement have a certain share of outsiderness? The opposite question seems also relevant: Have there been individual approaches not claiming any influence on others or on the future?

The 4th ARCHHIST Conference will take place on April 3-5, 2014 organised by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center) and hosted by MSGSÜ (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University).

Previous ARCHHIST Conferences, tracing the issues of in the "Media in Relation to Architecture", "Interactions in the History of Architecture" and "Politics", hosted more than a hundred of scholars from different places of the world.

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