Journal: Architectural Histories

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Ubiquity Press

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2050-5833

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  • Editorial. Architectural Historiography and Fourth Wave Feminism
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Lange, Torsten; Pérez-Moreno, Lucía C. (2020)
    Architectural Histories
    Over the course of the last decade, women from all over the world and from different social and cultural backgrounds continued to strive for equal rights in the face of discrimination, sexism, and misogyny. Utilizing new tools and strategies for communication, this ‘fourth wave’ of feminist thinking and activism is characterized by its commitment to a ‘diversity of purpose’ that recognises intersectionality as a key issue of our time and questions established sex/gender systems and gender as a binary category. This Special Collection explores the impact of current feminist discourse on architectural historiography. It offers critical debate on the legacy of second and third wave feminism, and asks for the ongoing relevance of the concerns and methodologies. It also highlights the potential of new strategies for documenting and researching the work of women architects, investigating the possibilities of digital tools and networked knowledge. Moreover, the collection considers histories of feminist architectural writing in relation to non-canonical geographies and takes a broader view to include LGBTIQ+ perspectives on the built environment. It offers diverse explorations of these key issues and presents necessary reflections to widen feminist enquiries in architectural discourse.
  • Learning from ‘Panosikoma’: Atelier 66’s Additions to Ordinary Houses.
    Item type: Journal Article
    Magouliotis, Nikolaos (2018)
    Architectural Histories
    The work of the Athens-based architectural practice Atelier 66 (est. 1965) has been extensively examined by local and international historiography over the past few decades. Most analyses have focused on the office’s large-scale projects and have associated them with post-war architectural genealogies such as Team X or Critical Regionalism and, more recently, postmodernism. This article focuses on a set of less acclaimed projects within their extensive oeuvre, namely the small-scale additions to existing houses commonly known as ‘panosikoma’. Based on a series of publications on this topic by Atelier 66 from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, and on recent interviews with the architects, the article situates Atelier 66’s work in the specific technical and socio-economic conditions of the Greek post-war building boom. It shows how Atelier 66 related to ordinary processes and typologies of housing production in Greece (antiparochi, polykatoikia and panosikoma). Through these minor commissions, the architects theorized and developed their distinct approach to incremental housing via subsequent projects and publications. By concentrating on their ‘ordinary house additions’, this article aims to unsettle the established historiographical reception of Atelier 66 and invite further interpretations of their work.
  • Many Architectures for Multiple Christianities
    Item type: Journal Article
    Magouliotis, Nikolaos (2023)
    Architectural Histories
    Richard Etlin's Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity is an extensive collection of texts covering many aspects of Christian architecture, from early Christian holy sites to modernist churches and written in a manner that is accessible to a non-specialized reader. However, the book's adherence to the geographic canon of Christianity leaves out many important histories from Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Additionally, its tendency for siloing Christianism from other religions falls short of the concurrent need for studies of transcultural encounters, syncretisms, and hybrids. This review was commissioned alongside the one authored by Maximilian Sternberg. Both reviews should be read together for a comprehensive account of this volume set.
  • Architectural Historiography and Fourth Wave Feminism
    Item type: Journal Issue
    (2020)
    Architectural Histories
    Over the course of the last decade, women from all over the world and from different social and cultural backgrounds continued to strive for equal rights in the face of discrimination, sexism, and misogyny. Utilizing new tools and strategies for communication, this ‘fourth wave’ of feminist thinking and activism is characterized by its commitment to a ‘diversity of purpose’ that recognises intersectionality as a key issue of our time and questions established sex/gender systems and gender as a binary category. This Special Collection explores the impact of current feminist discourse on architectural historiography. It offers critical debate on the legacy of second and third wave feminism, and asks for the ongoing relevance of the concerns and methodologies. It also highlights the potential of new strategies for documenting and researching the work of women architects, investigating the possibilities of digital tools and networked knowledge. Moreover, the collection considers histories of feminist architectural writing in relation to non-canonical geographies and takes a broader view to include LGBTIQ+ perspectives on the built environment. It offers diverse explorations of these key issues and presents necessary reflections to widen feminist enquiries in architectural discourse.
  • Reviews Summer 2020
    Item type: Book Review
    Marinazzo, Adriano; Vervoort, Stefaan; Allen, Matthew; et al. (2020)
    Architectural Histories
    Marinazzo, A. A Review of William E. Wallace, Michelangelo, God’s Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Vervoort, S. A Review of Matthew Mindrup, The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse. Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2019. Allen, M. A Review of Joseph Bedford, ed., Is There an Object-Oriented Architecture? Engaging Graham Harman. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Astengo, G. A Review of Vaughan Hart, Christopher Wren: In Search of Eastern Antiquity. London: Yale University Press, 2020. Smyth-Pinney, J. A Review of Maria Beltramini and Cristina Conti, eds., Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane: Architettura e decorazione da Leone X a Paolo III. Milan: Officina libraria, 2018.
  • Architecture and the Environment
    Item type: Journal Article
    Hochhäusl, Sophie; Lange, Torsten; Adams, Ross Exo; et al. (2018)
    Architectural Histories
  • Mediating Modernism: The Architectural Journal in Post-War Europe
    Item type: Book Review
    Wells, Matthew James (2020)
    Architectural Histories
  • Reviews Summer 2019
    Item type: Book Review
    Jones, Emma; Pollard, Carole; Lending, Mari; et al. (2019)
    Architectural Histories
  • 'Is there such thing as evil objects?': A Review of Lucius Burckhardt Writings
    Item type: Journal Article
    Förster, Kim (2014)
    Architectural Histories
    Since the death of Lucius Burckhardt in 2003, his work has been discovered as an alternative position in architecture and planning in the German-speaking world. This volume for the first time compiles 24 ‘best of’ texts on such topics as politics, landscape, and design, written between 1957 and 1999, in an English translation, including a valuable introduction by the editors.
  • The Tools of the Architect: Towards a New Historiography, Following the EAHN's Fifth Thematic Conference (Delft/Rotterdam 22-24 November 2017)
    Item type: Journal Article
    Avermaete, Tom; Hurx, Merlijn (2019)
    Architectural Histories
    In depictions of architects up to the 20th century, tools have always been the main marker of the profession. Tools not only served as easily recognisable iconographical attributes, but also came to embody architects’ professional identity. While architects have always relied on a wide array of tools, ranging from practical instruments and to conceptual apparatus, architectural history has only recently started to profoundly engage with their characteristics and function. The goal of the fifth thematic conference of the EAHN (Delft/Rotterdam, 22–24 November 2017, https://toolsofarchitect.com) was to promote a deeper cultural investigation of the tools of the architect and to acknowledge their agency in architectural culture. After three days of rich presentations and fruitful discussions, the study of tools emerged as a central theme of architectural historiography that requires more scholarly attention.
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