The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography. Each chapter probes the state of contemporary theorization of architecture histories, working toward the theme of critically re-writing history. Essential to each author's contribution are specific traditions created by the mole of history burrowing through the past. This book concerns the historian's conjectures towards capturing the past and present zeitgeist.
Temporality is the theme running through the narrative of this volume. It raises the question of whether the ever-growing body of work on architectural history should be considered as history. More specifically, what is the intersection between history and architectural history? Furthermore, can every text focused on architecture's past be considered categorically historiographic? In what capacity does architectural history index history beyond contingencies and without reducing the text to empirical realities and the historian's interest in a specific subject, including those collected through archival research, itself an emblem of textuality? This book upholds the conviction that the past should be recalled accurately and that there is no history but historical criticism, the scope of which exceeds the historicity of Humanism. Dialectically, the timeline experienced across contemporary techno-economic and cultural domains (aesthetics) offers an opportunity to explore architecture produced outside the Euro-American continents.
Valences of Historiography offers a fresh take on architectural history that is useful for academics, researchers and architecture students.
Edited by:
Gevork Hartoonian
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9781032558974
ISBN 10: 1032558970
Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
Pages: 142
Publication Date: 30 December 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of figures List of contributors Introduction Gevork Hartoonian Chapter 1: No (more) History: Reassessing Priorities in Today’s Architectural Historiography! Carmen Popescu Chapter 2: Architectural History Today: Where do we stand? Where do we go? Hilde Heynen Chapter 3: Comparative and Critical Histories in Professional Education: A Problem of Disciplinary Methods Pedro P. Palazzo Chapter 4: History Curated: Architecture Museums - Custodians of the Past, Critics of the Present? Christina Pech Chapter 5: Inscribing the Past, Looking at the Future: The Temporalities of Townscape Pollyanna Rhee Chapter 6: Challenging the Methods of Writing History in Architecture: City as History Marianna Charitonidou Chapter 7: Latin American Architecture and the Iberian Temperament Patricio del Real Chapter 8: On the Use and Abuse of Global History of Architecture Gevork Hartoonian Index
Gevork Hartoonian is Emeritus Professor of Architectural History at the University of Canberra, Australia, and holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has taught in American universities, including the Pratt Institute and Columbia University, NYC. Hartoonian is, most recently, the author Mies Contra Le Corbusier: The Frame Inevitable (Routledge 2024), Towards a Critique of Architecture’s Contemporaneity: 4 Essays (Routledge 2023), Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on Modern Architecture 1980 (2022) and Time, History and Architecture: Essays on Critical Historiography (Routledge 2020/2018). He is, most recently, the editor of The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture: A Debate (Routledge 2023). Hartoonian’s previous publications include, among others, Architecture and Spectacle: A Critique (Routledge 2016/2012) and The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian (2013). The Korean and Thai editions of Ontology of Construction (1994) were published in 2010 and 2017.
