Title & Author:

Speaking of buildings : oral history in architectural research / Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead, and Deborah van der Plaat, editors.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A short history of silence : the epistemological politics of architectural historiography / Janina Gosseye -- Speaking from the inside : challenging the myths of architectural history through the oral histories of Maitland Gaol / Jesse Adams Stein and Emma Rowden -- "It was a totally different approach to building!" : constructing architectural concrete in 1960s London / Christine Wall -- Discourses, ephemeral sources, and architectural history : personality and the personal in the story of J. M. Richards / Jessica Kelly -- Action archive : oral history as performance / Helena Mattsson and Meike Schalk -- Oral history as activism : the public politics of spoken memory / Karen Burns -- Building by ear : ultra-red and Union de Vecinos in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles / Sandra Parvu and Alice Sotgia -- Taking my place/talking your place : race, research, and indigenous architectural history / Kelly Greenop -- Making room for difference : altering architectural research through interviews and fieldwork / Thomas-Bernard Kenniff -- At the threshold of moral doors : crossing into rural Turkish Cypriot women's spaces / Ceren Kürüm -- Reading between the lines : reflections on an interview with Mario Botta / Ashley Paine -- Spoken-not-spoken, written-not-written : from gossip and rumor to architectural history between margin and center / Igea Troiani -- When subjects cry / Andrea J. Merrett -- Ways to listen anew : what next for oral history and architecture? / Naomi Stead, Deborah van der Plaat, and Janina Gosseye.

Summary:

"By and large, architectural historians use texts, drawings, and photographs to craft their narratives. Oral testimony from those who actually occupy or construct buildings is rarely taken as seriously. 'Speaking of Buildings' offers a rebuttal, theorizing the radical potential of a methodology that has historically been cast as unreliable. Essays by an international group of scholars look at varied topics, from the role of gossip in undermining masculine narratives in architecture to workers' accounts of building with cement in midcentury London to a sound art piece created by oral testimonies from Los Angeles public housing residents. In sum, the authors call for a renewed form of listening to enrich our understanding of what buildings are, what they do, and what they mean to people" -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781616897543 paperback alkaline paper
1616897546 paperback alkaline paper

Subject:

Architecture Research.
Oral history.
Histoire orale.
Architecture Recherche.
Architektur
Architekturgeschichtsschreibung
Baudenkmal
Bauforschung
Bewohner
Nutzung

Added entries:

Gosseye, Janina, editor.
Stead, Naomi, editor.
Van der Plaat, Deborah, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306668
Call No.: BIB 252224
Status: Available