Journal: The Journal of Architecture

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1360-2365
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  • French architects and ‘églises grecques’: the discovery of byzantine architecture in Greece, 1820s–1840s
    Item type: Journal Article
    Magouliotis, Nikolaos (2020)
    The Journal of Architecture
    This article attributes the discovery of byzantine architecture in Greece to the writings of French architects from the 1820s to the 1840s. It aims to demonstrate how publications of Abel Blouet, André Couchaud, and others contributed to challenging the established portrayal of Greece as the exclusive locus of classical antiquity by bringing international attention to the country’s medieval architecture. A French interest in the Greek byzantine heritage emerged in the early nineteenth century as part of the national and geopolitical interests of France in the eastern Mediterranean. The article analyses how Greek byzantine architecture was distinguished as a historical category and placed within the broader French discourse on medieval architecture and national patrimony, with some scholars tracing the gothic style back to byzantine roots. Moreover, the article demonstrates that in Greece, by contrast, byzantine architecture was treated with ambivalence, if not outright rejection as local intellectuals strongly adhered to the self-image of Greece as the land of the classics. The unanimous acceptance of byzantine architecture as an object of national heritage and scholarly research would take place only in late nineteenth-century Greece.
  • The optical construction of urban space
    Item type: Journal Article
    Moravánszky, Ákos (2012)
    The Journal of Architecture
  • Advancing the art of building: Bouwkundige Bijdragen in the Netherlands
    Item type: Journal Article
    de Jong, Sigrid (2020)
    The Journal of Architecture
    The foundation of the Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Bouwkunst [the Society for the Advancement of the Art of Building] in 1842 and its journal Bouwkundige Bijdragen [Architectural Contributions] signalled a new era for Dutch architectural theory and practice. This was the first time that architects started to present themselves as specialists. This paper traces the changing climate in the Dutch art of building as documented through the articles and images published in the Bouwkundige Bijdragen, the first architectural journal in the Netherlands, and analyses these changes through the contributions and writings of the Amsterdam-based architect Johannes Hermanus Leliman (1828–1910). Leliman represents one of the main voices in Dutch architectural debates and was a fervent advocate of eclecticism. Leliman and his fellow architects utilised the pages of the Bouwkundige Bijdragen to passionately discuss the prospects for a new Dutch architecture, architectural history, technical innovations and building materials, or German and French inspirations, from 1843 to 1881. The paper examines the journal as a principal outlet and platform for the emergence of new ideas and theories at the moment of Dutch architects’ self-emancipation. © 2020 RIBA Enterprises.
  • Work in text and images: Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture, 1941-1967
    Item type: Journal Article
    Harbusch, Gregor (2015)
    The Journal of Architecture
  • Competitive coexistence
    Item type: Review Article
    Beyer, Elke (2012)
    The Journal of Architecture
  • 'New Brutalism', 'Topology' and 'Image': some remarks on the architectural debates in England around 1950
    Item type: Journal Article
    Stalder, Laurent (2017)
    The Journal of Architecture
  • '... the broad field of general culture': Herman Sorgel's diagrams on the essence and history of architecture
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schützeichel, Rainer (2015)
    The Journal of Architecture
    The German architect and architectural theoretician Herman Sörgel incorporated the question of what the characteristics of contemporary modern architecture might be into a comprehensive theoretical structure in which he attempted to situate architecture within a cultural system. An engagement with Oswald Spengler's philosophical cultural pessimism inter alia formed a basis for his culturally based view of architecture. Sörgel's work can be seen as a response to Spengler in two ways: first, his draft ‘plan of culture’ (1921) represents a direct reaction; secondly, his work on the ‘Atlantropa' project from 1927 onwards was motivated by an effort, through a large-scale technological project, to avoid the decline of Western culture prophesied by Spengler. Sörgel's higher-order integration of architecture into culture led to a reading of modernism that remained aware of its historicity. Modernism was thus not seen as an a-historical phenomenon; on the contrary, Sörgel regarded it in a genealogical way, as the most recent element in a historical process. He continually resorted to the use of diagrams to illustrate the basic features of his theory of architecture. While early diagrams are still tools for visualising the structure of his theory in the style of a graphic table of contents, later diagrams that Sörgel produced to illustrate specialist and popular-science texts in the form of family trees can be used to analyse his reading of modern architecture as an element in a process of historical and cultural development.
  • The peripheral interior and people as infrastructure: adopting the sewer system for passage
    Item type: Journal Article
    Myjak-Pycia, Anna (2024)
    The Journal of Architecture
    During the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, soldiers and civilians used the city's sewer system to move from place to place and to pass objects and information. Although many who entered the underground did not survive its conditions, the adoption of the sewer as a passage for people did save thousands of lives. Drawing on technical materials and testimonies of the survivors, the article examines this appropriation of the sewer system, concentrating on the way it functioned. It explicates how the reliance of the sewer's adoption on the engagement of people turned them and their bodies into infrastructure, and how it led to augmenting the ontology of the sewer. The article offers a new interpretation of the Warsaw sewer appropriation and enriches the conceptual framework by bridging infrastructural notions with the periphery-centre concepts. Moreover, it advances research on 'periphery' by, firstly, counteracting the underrepresented and peripheral status of Eastern Europe in architectural history and, secondly, validating infrastructural spaces and broadening the scope of spaces included as interiors frequented by people. The paper also contributes to scholarship on spaces experienced largely through non-visual sensory modalities, an understudied area of architectural history due to the discipline's rootedness in the domain of sight.
  • Peripheral modernism
    Item type: Journal Article
    Moravánszky, Ákos (2012)
    The Journal of Architecture
  • Debating volume: architectural versus electrical amplification in the League of Nations, 1926-28
    Item type: Journal Article
    von Fischer, Sabine (2018)
    The Journal of Architecture
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