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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Current: Collective for Architecture History and Environment in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCurrent: Collective for Architecture History and Environment
“…Current: seeks to develop strong alliances with fields that are already poised to address the climate crisis such as ecology, sociology, anthropology, media studies, geography, critical race studies, history of science, history of technology, and the environmental humanities at…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Conversation on Recent Book by Reinhold Martin (Knowledge Worlds…) in the discussion
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoCelebrating Recent Work by Reinhold Martin (Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University):
Conversation with Reinhold Martin, Weihong Bao, Mabel O. Wilson, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Lucia Allais, May 14, 2021.
“..What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Antoine Picon, 2020, The Materiality of Architecture, Uni. of Minnesota Press. in the discussion
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months ago“…Through a retrospective review of canonical moments in Western European architecture, Picon offers an original perspective on the ways materiality has varied throughout centuries, demonstrating how experiences of the physical world have changed in relation to the evolution of human subjectivity….” ,…[Read more]
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Pauline Saliga started the topic Sign Letter of Support from Scholars at Risk regarding Afghanistan in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 4 years, 5 months agoLast week SAH signed an urgent appeal for Afghanistan’s scholars, students, practitioners, civil society leaders and activists.
The Society of Architectural Historians has signed a letter that Scholars at Risk (SAR), in partnership with 40 higher education institutions, associations and networks, and over 1,000 professionals and students…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Footnotes on Climate by the Avery Review and Columbia Books on Architecture in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 4 years, 5 months agohttps://www.arch.columbia.edu/books/reader/189-footnotes-on-climate-a-reading-list-on-architecture-and-climate-change, last accessed on 8.23.2021.
“…This reading list is offered not as a survey of the field or even a syllabus of sorts, but as a collection of documents (historical and contemporary, scholarly and speculative, governmental and act…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning. in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 4 years, 5 months agoBarber, D. A., 2020, Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning, Princeton University Press; https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Architecture-Climate-Design-Conditioning/dp/0691170037
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Luis de Orueta deposited Vivre à la Maison Smith de Richard Meier in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoDans ce court essai, l’auteur examine l’effet d’un bâtiment emblématique sur la conduite de la personne qui y vit. Il prend comme référence la première maison que le célèbre architecte a conçue et projette son irradiation sur des expériences autobiographiques qui couvrent de multiples aspects de la vie quotidienne. Partant de l’interrelatio…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu started the topic Collective Memory & Historical Documentation on Diverse Women Architects (Panel) in the discussion
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHello everyone, if you are interested in diversity, equity and inclusion in architectural archives, please see for our online panel record:
https://wwd2021.com/diverse-women-artitects, last accessed on 7.30.2021. Our aim is to continue this discussion online. Please, stay tuned!
Panelists:
*Prof. Dr. Mary Norman Woods, Professor Emerita at…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited The Death and Life of ‘Operative’ History: Dialogues between the Historiography and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism in Contemporary Italy in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoIn spite of the dispute between Saverio Muratori and Manfredo Tafuri, and of the ever-widening split that has characterised the global scholarship of architecture ever since, Italy gave rise to several methods of typo- morphological studies founded upon both rigorous historiography and a coherent theory underpinning the operative use of this…[Read more]
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Helena Dean started the topic SAH 2022 Paper Sessions of Interest in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe following paper sessions (and others not included here) may be of interest to members of the SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group. The deadline for the 2022 Call for Papers has been extended to Tuesday, June 8, at 11:59 pm CDT. https://www.sah.org/2022/call-for-papers
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Raphael Grazziano deposited Urban science between transparent management and corporate appropriation: A study concerning systems of urban assessment in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoUrban science is the planning branch that uses large scale data to establish new ways to govern cities, being systems of urban assessment an example of its contemporary manifestation. What Works Cities (WWC) from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Cities and Communities (LEED© CC) from US Green Building…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu started the topic "Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University" in the discussion
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoKnowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University by Reinhold Martin, Columbia University Press, March 2021, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/knowledge-worlds/9780231189835, last accessed on 2.8.2021.
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Accouplement: vicissitudes of an architectural motif in classical France in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years agoCoupled columns in French architecture and the reaction to their use from the Renaissance up to the classical rationalism of the early twentieth century hinged on the debates regarding the relation- ship between structural stability and visual delight, over the backdrop of the search for a national classical tradition. This architectural motif was…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu started the topic Kenneth Frampton, The Other Modern Movement, Architecture, 1920–1970 in the discussion
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years agoForthcoming book by Kenneth Frampton; please see: Kenneth Frampton, The Other Modern Movement, Architecture, 1920–1970, Yale University Press, Publication Date: May 4, 2021:https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300238891/other-modern-movement, last accessed on 1.19.2021.
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Laurence Dresner started the topic Joan of Arc Music in the discussion
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years agoI’m a classically trained composer considering writing a chamber piece about Joan of Arc. I’m looking for information regarding (folk, or not) songs she would have probably been familiar with during the early part of her life – before she began her quest. Any information, links, suggestions, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Samuel Grinsell deposited Mastering the Nile? Confidence and Anxiety in D. S. George’s Photographs of the First Aswan Dam, 1899–1912 in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe first Aswan Dam was built at the dawn of the twentieth century and celebrated as a triumph of imperial engineering. Five years after its completion, workers returned to extend the dam. Photographer D. S. George recorded both the building and extension projects for the Egyptian Public Works Department in a series of images that give a unique…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Literary History and Architectural Traditionalism in Portugal and Brazil in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis article outlines the formation of architectural theory in Portugal and Brazil during the nineteenth century, arguing that such theory was initially contained within the social circle and methodological scope of literary history. It makes this case by following the architectural discourses of writers, literary critics, and ethnographers. This…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Mello, Heitor de in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoBrazilian architect. He was an influential eclectic architect highly active in Rio de Janeiro and a professor at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA). Soon after graduating from the ENBA, he established his firm in 1898. The son of Custódio José de Mello, a republican admiral and cabinet minister, Mello benefited from his family’s con…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art and Architecture in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis chapter examines a few of the landmark narratives on the issue of national character published between 1880 and 1940. Following the views of Lucio Marcal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa patron, Costa held that it was instead the simple architecture of anonymous master builders that embodied the functional, technical, and aesthetic homogeneity of…[Read more]
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