Rethinking architectural historiography / edited by Dana Arnold, Elvan Altan Ergut and Belgin Turan Özkaya.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arnold, Dana.

Ergut, Elvan Altan.

Turan Özkaya, Belgin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Historiography.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

xx, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Rather than subscribing to a single position, this collection informs the reader about the current state of the discipline by looking at changes across the broad field of methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality. Divided into three sections, Rethinking Architectural Historiography begins by renegotiating foundational and contemporary boundaries of architectural history in relation to other cognate fields. It then goes on to engage critically with past and present histories, disclosing assumptions, biases and absences in architectural historiography. It concludes by exploring the possibilities provided by new perspectives, and reframing the discipline in the light of new parameters and problematics.

Featuring distinctive contributions from authors with a range of expertise on the writing, teaching and practice of architectural history, this timely and internationally relevant title reflects upon the current changes in historiographical practice. This book explores potential openings that may contribute to further transformation of the disciplines and theories of architectural historiography, and addresses the current question of the disciplinary particularity of architectural history.

Contents:

Introduction: mapping architectural historiography / Elvan Altan Ergut, Belgin Turan Ozkaya 1

Part I Boundaries 15

1 Art history and architectural history / Eric C. Fernie 17

2 Buildings archaeology: context and points of convergence / Roger H. Leech 24

3 Architecture as evidence / Andrew Ballantyne 36

4 Program and programs / Christian F. Otto 50

5 Hercules at the roundabout: multidisciplinary choice in the history of architecture / Fikret Yegul 60

6 Frontiers of fear: architectural history, the anchor and the sail / Suna Guven 74

Part II Critical engagements 83

7 Questions of Ottoman identity and architectural history / Tulay Artan 85

8 In Ordinary Time: considerations on a video installation by Inigo Manglano Ovalle and the New National Gallery in Berlin by Mies van der Rohe / Edward Dimendberg 110

9 Reopening the question of document in architectural historiography: reading (writing) Filarete's treatise on architecture for (in) Piero de' Medici's study / Sevil Enginsoy Ekinci 121

10 From architectural history to spatial writing / Jane Rendell 135

11 Presenting Ankara: popular conceptions of architecture and history / Elvan Altan Ergut 151

Part III Reframings 169

12 Space, time, and architectural history / Nancy Stieber 171

13 Visuality and architectural history / Belgin Turan Ozkaya 183

14 The digital disciplinary divide: reactions to historical virtual reality models / Diane Favro 200

15 The afterlife of buildings: architecture and Walter Benjamin's theory of history / Patricia A. Morton 215

16 Beyond a boundary: towards an architectural history of the non-east / Dana Arnold 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

041536082X

0415360854

OCLC:

63122800

Publisher Number:

9780415360821

9780415360852