Rethinking Architectural Historiography

by Dana Arnold (Editor), Elvan Altan Ergut (Editor), Belgin Turan Ozkaya (Editor)

Overview

Rather than subscribing to a single position, this collection informs the reader about the current state of the discipline looking at changes across the broad field of methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality. Divided into three sections, Rethinking Architectural Historiography begins by renegotiating foundational and contemporary boundaries of architectural history in relation to other fields, such as art history and archaeology. It then goes on to critically engage with past and present histories, disclosing assumptions, biases and absences in architectural historiography. It concludes by exploring the possibilities provided by new perspectives, reframing the discipline in the light of new parameters and problematics.

This timely and illustrated title reflects upon the current changes in historiographical practice, exploring potential openings that may contribute further transformation of the disciplines and theories on architectural historiography and addresses the current question of the disciplinary particularity of architectural history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415360852
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/25/2006
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dana Arnold is Chair in Architectural History and Director at the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, University of Southampton, UK. She has held research fellowships at Yale University; the University of Cambridge and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and has been a visiting Professor in the United States, Canada and Britain. Her previous publications include Rural Urbanism (2006); Reading Architectural History (2002) and the co-edited volume Architecture as Experience (2004). Her current work on hospitals as agents of social, cultural and urban change will be published by Routledge in 2008.

Elvan Altan Ergut is Assistant Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Architecture at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. She received her PhD in Art History from State University of New York at Binghamton. Her research areas include architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and architectural historiography. She is currently editing one volume on Republican architecture in Turkey (METU Faculty of Architecture Press, 2006) and another one on local modernisms in Turkish provinces (Turkish Chamber of Architects, 2006).

Belgin Turan Özkaya is Associate Professor of Architectural History in the Department of Architecture at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. She received her PhD in History of Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University, was a fellow at the 1999 Getty Summer institute in Visual Studies and Art History and a Visiting Scholar at Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2000-2001. She has published on the Italian Tendenza, Ottoman–Venetian relations and architectural historiography. Her work is located at the interstices of architectural history and contemporary interdisciplinary theory. Currently, she is working on an edited volume on visuality and architecture.

Table of Contents

1. Mapping Architectural Historiography Part I: Boundaries 2. Art History and Architectual History 3. Buildings Archaeology: Context and Points of Convergence 4. Architecture as Evidence 5. Program and Programs 6. Hercules at the Roundabout: Multidisciplinary Choice in History of Architecture 7. Frontiers of Fear: Architectural History, the Anchor and the Sail Part II: Critical Engagements 8. Questions of Ottoman Identity and Architectural History 9. In Ordinary Time: Considerations on a Video Installation by ICigo Manglano Ovalle and the New National Gallery in Berlin by Mies van der Rohe 10. Reopening the Question of Document in Architectural Historiography: Reading (Writing) Filarete's Treatise on Architecture for (in) Piero De Medici's Study 11. From Architectural History to Spatial Writing 12. Presenting Ankara: Popular Conceptions of Architecture and History Part III: Reframings 13. Space, Time, and Architectural History 14. Visuality and Architectural History 15. Digital Disciplinary Divide: Reactions to Historical Virtual Reality Models 16. The Afterlife of Buildings: Architecture and Walter Benjamin's Theory of History 17. Beyond a Boundary: Towards an Architectural History of the Non-East