Journal: ABE Journal

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Institut national d'histoire de l'art

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  • Miniaturizing monuments: Conrad Schick and his architectural models of the holy sites of Jerusalem
    Item type: Journal Article
    Magouliotis, Nikolaos (2021)
    ABE Journal
    The topic of this paper is a series of architectural models of the holy sites of Jerusalem made by Conrad Schick, a German missionary and craftsman who lived in the Holy Land for the latter half of the nineteenth century.
  • Architecture in the Foreign Aid-Funded Knowledge Economy. Part 1: Expertise
    Item type: Journal Issue
    (2023)
    ABE Journal
    The decolonization of large parts of the world in the second half of the 20th century drastically altered the ways in which architecture and spatial planning, both as practice and as field of knowledge, were enmeshed in global flows of exchange. In particular the politics and economies of foreign aid shaped these flows of exchange from the 1950s to the late 1980s and gave rise to a whole infrastructure destined to assist the progress of “developing countries” on their “path to development.” Instigated by both the “capitalist West” as well as the “communist East,” the various North-South exchanges that took place in the name of “development” have left a deep imprint on the geopolitical landscape of postcolonial Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Largely instituted through bilateral relations between individual states, these “aid” initiatives involved not only financial and material resources but also various forms of knowledge and expertise; as such, the modalities of this global, foreign aid-funded infrastructure promoted an international network of consultancy and boosted the creation and reinforcement of all sorts of institutional actors to efficiently exchange knowledge— largely through training courses, educational programs and/or research projects.
  • Introduction: Architecture in the Foreign Aid-Funded Knowledge Economy. Expertise
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Loosen, Sebastiaan; Sigge, Erik; Mattsson, Helena (2023)
    ABE Journal
  • Negotiating Comfort in the Metropolis: Peter Cook, Toyo Ito, and the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition, 1977 and 1988
    Item type: Journal Article
    Nuijsink, Cathelijne (2021)
    ABE Journal
    This investigation approaches the annual Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition (1965-2020) as a productive cross-cultural medium of exchange that generates new architectural knowledge. It situates this international competition of ideas in a long history of transnational encounters, to identify the contours of the ideological shift from the consolidation of modernist ideals to their critique. The paper highlights the iteration of the lack of "comfort" of modernist architecture, tracing the origins of this critique by referencing the 1977 and 1988 competitions, during which the respective judges Peter Cook and Toyo Ito challenged architects to devise innovative housing proposals to attain "comfort in the metropolis." It initially employs a synchronic approach to investigate the origins of Cook's competition theme, the multiple winning entries, the judges' final remarks, and the after-effects of the competitions to apprehend how discrete geographies negotiated the notion of comfort. Next, the paper juxtaposes the outcomes of both years of the competition to offer a diachronic analysis of how architects have conceived the house and the city differently through time. This investigation reveals that the mechanism of this longstanding, idea-based competition confronts two judges' positions to understand their cultural and architectural differences.
  • Introduction to Dossier
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Loosen, Sebastiaan; Sigge, Erik; Mattsson, Helena (2023)
    ABE Journal ~ Architecture in the Foreign Aid-Funded Knowledge Economy. Part 2: Pedagogies
    This dossier aims to shed light on how the politics and economies of foreign aid shaped the global flows of exchange of architectural knowledge. As the agendas of architecture and foreign aid substantially overlapped from the 1950s to the late 1980s, it gave rise to a global knowledge economy in which the exchange of architectural knowledge was promoted and governed by an international network of consultancy and the creation and reinforcement of all sorts of institutional actors such as research centers and architecture schools. While the thematic contributions to the previous issue questioned the notion of “expertise”, education and pedagogy form a powerful lens to investigate particular relationships and interactions between groups and individuals connected by colonial or postwar developmental constellations, and to ask pertinent questions of the postcolonial / decolonial.
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