Main entry:

Aggregate (Group), author.

Title & Author:

Writing architectural history : evidence and narrative in the twenty-first century / Aggregate.

Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
©2021

Description:

ix, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-334) and index.
Introduction: Evidence, Narrative, and Writing Architectural History / Daniel M. Abramson Zeynep Çelik Alexander Michael Osman -- Part 1. Legends : The Fires of Saint-Domingue, or, Landscapes of the Haitian Revolution / Peter Minosh -- Known Unknowns: The Documentary History of the Franklin Ghost House /Edward Eigen -- Vacuum Suction Conveyance, Part II / Meredith TenHoor -- Part 2. Self-Evidence : Talkative Timbers: A. E. Douglass, the Beam Expeditions, and the Construction of Architectural Evidence / Albert Narath -- Concrete is One Hundred Years Old:The Carbonation Equation and Narratives of Anthropogenic Change / Lucia Allais, Forrest Meggers -- Medieval and Renaissance Money: On Trial, On Architecture / Lauren Jacobi -- Part 3. Data : From Truth to Proof: Friedrich Adler's Medieval Brick Architecture of the Prussian States / Laila Seewang -- The Banister Fletchers' Tabulations / Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Michael Osman -- Evidence and Narrative in Digital Art History: Exploratory Methods for Weimar Architecture / Paul B. Jaskot, Ivo van der Graaff -- Part 4. Pairings : Comparative Architecture and Its Discontents / Roy Kozlovsky -- When Baghdad Was Like Warsaw: Comparison in the Cold War / Lukasz Stanek -- Forensic Architecture as Symptom / Andrew Herscher -- Architectural History after Sebald's Austerlitz: A Squirrel's Hoard, a Curved Road / Daniel M. Abramson -- Part 5. Testimony : Failing Memories and Forgotten Histories: The Dispute over the Venetian Church of San Giobbe / Janna Israel -- Settling Imaginations: Between Dust and Silt / Ijlal Muzaffar -- Dadaab Is a Place on Earth: Land and the Migrant Archive / Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi -- Learning from Johannesburg: Unpacking Denise Scott Brown's South African View of Las Vegas / Ayala Levin -- Part 6. Retrials : Architectural Narratives of Habeas Corpus on the High Seas: Charles Frederick Lees versus the Crown / Lisa Haber-Thomson -- "This Whole Maze of Evidence": Revisiting Professionalism and Property through Hunt v. Parmly / Erik Carver --- "Striking and Imposing Beauty": On the Evidence of Aesthetic Valuation / Timothy Hyde.

Summary:

Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing on gender, race, the environment, and more recently global history, connecting to revisionist trends in other fields. With examples across space and time-from medieval European coin trials and eighteenth-century Haitian revolutionary buildings to Weimar German construction firms and present-day African refugee camps-'Writing Architectural History' considers the impact of these shifting institutional landscapes and disciplinary positionings for architectural history. Contributors reveal how new methodological approaches have developed interdisciplinary research beyond the traditional boundaries of art history departments and architecture schools, and explore the challenges and opportunities presented by conventional and unorthodox forms of evidence and narrative, the tools used to write history.

ISBN:

9780822946847 hardcover
082294684X hardcover

Subject:

Architecture Research.
Architecture Historiography.
Architecture Recherche.
Architecture Historiographie.

Form/genre:

Essay
essays.
Essays
Essais.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315246
Call No.: 315246
Copy: 1
Status: Available