At the Vancouver meeting and the Paris forum, a discussion was held on the aims of a European Network. The results are summarized in the Vancouver minutes and the Paris summary, both of which may be consulted on the site.

Moreover, at the Paris Conference, colleagues interested by the project of a network were given the possibility or expressing their expectations on a questionnaire.

Here are the answers (quotations are original; titles to subsume are mine):

A) Strengthen architectural history

1. - platform for architectural history
2. - autonomiser le champ disciplinaire de l'histoire de l'architecture
3. - wider visibility
4. - avoid the focus on European architecture within the mission statement: architectural historians in Europe deal with all subjects
5. - avoid "doubling up" with SAH which would result in less exchange (preference for a European chapter within SAH)
6. - develop multilinguism in our field
7. - links with other organizations
8. - work with the already existing organizations in Europe
9. - cooperation with other organizations*
   
10. - scholarship
11. - job market
    

B) Network

1. - strong network
2. - facilitate exchanges within the European sphere but with a clear international perspective
3. - strong network capable of using European resources but is geared toward international research
4. - meeting point for all the individuals interested in the subject
   

C) Website

Database

Information network

1. - créer un réseau d'informations
2. - site pour échanger des informations
3. - récolte et diffusion des informations utiles (expos, congrès, offres de poste)
4. - announcement of symposia, conferences, lectures
5. - accès à des informations pratiques sur les personnes
6. - list of research projects
7. - réseau de renseignement sur bibliographie, thèses de doctorat, programmes et opportunités de recherche
   

D) Discussion forum

1. - listserv
2. - mailing list
3. - forum de discussion sur internet (in a Wiki?)
4. - portail avec forum de discussion
   

E) Meetings

1. - SAH-type meetings with presentations of research from all parts of the field
2. - (tri or bi) annual meetings
3. - bi-annual conferences
4. - regional meetings
5. - international conferences
6. - congrès international pour permettre aux chercheurs de se rencontrer et de se mettre au courant des avancées dans tous les domaines de l'histoire de l'architecture
7. - possibilité d'organiser régulièrement des colloques sur des sujets qui peuvent bénéficier d'un regard européen plutôt que national
   

F) Publication

1. - publication of current research
2. - editing a journal
   

G) Financement

1. - fonds européens pour projet préliminaire ?

*Following organizations were mentioned :

• - NETHCA: Network for Theory, History and Criticism of Architecture (Belgian based, see its website)
• - AFHA: Association française des historiens de l'architecture
• - EAUH: European Association for Urban History
• - AISU: Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana

Thanks to E. Altan Ergut, M.H. Barreiros, K. Bowie, M. Casciato, M.-L. Crosnier-Lecomte, K. De Jonge, A. Faria, H. Heynen, B. Kulawik, D. Neumann, A. Nitzan-Shiftan, E. Pallottino, S. Pasquali, C. Popescu, U.M. Schumann, N. Stieber, B. Turan Ölkaya, W. Sonne, P. Varela Gomes, G. Zucconi.

Christine MENGIN