Description
Book SynopsisRather than subscribing to a single position, this collection informs the reader about the current state of the discipline 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 fields, such as art history and archaeology. It then goes on to critically engage with past and present histories, disclosing assumptions, biases and absences in architectural historiography. It concludes by exploring the possibilities provided by new perspectives, reframing the discipline in the light of new parameters and problematics.
This timely and illustrated title reflects upon the current changes in historiographical practice, exploring potential openings that may contribute further transformation of the disciplines and theories on architectural historiography and
Table of Contents
1. Mapping Architectural Historiography Part I: Boundaries 2. Art History and Architectual History 3. Buildings Archaeology: Context and Points of Convergence 4. Architecture as Evidence 5. Program and Programs 6. Hercules at the Roundabout: Multidisciplinary Choice in History of Architecture 7. Frontiers of Fear: Architectural History, the Anchor and the Sail Part II: Critical Engagements 8. Questions of Ottoman Identity and Architectural History 9. In Ordinary Time: Considerations on a Video Installation by ICigo Manglano Ovalle and the New National Gallery in Berlin by Mies van der Rohe 10. Reopening the Question of Document in Architectural Historiography: Reading (Writing) Filarete's Treatise on Architecture for (in) Piero De Medici's Study 11. From Architectural History to Spatial Writing 12. Presenting Ankara: Popular Conceptions of Architecture and History Part III: Reframings 13. Space, Time, and Architectural History 14. Visuality and Architectural History 15. Digital Disciplinary Divide: Reactions to Historical Virtual Reality Models 16. The Afterlife of Buildings: Architecture and Walter Benjamin's Theory of History 17. Beyond a Boundary: Towards an Architectural History of the Non-East
