For those interested in the history and theory of architecture in relation to the other arts.
Laurence Dresner started the topic Joan of Arc Music in the discussion
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
I’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!
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 4 weeks, 1 day ago
The 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]
Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Literary History and Architectural Traditionalism in Portugal and Brazil in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
This 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]
Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Mello, Heitor de in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
Brazilian 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]
Pedro P. Palazzo deposited The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art and Architecture in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
This 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]
Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 6 in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access,
biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural
diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond
the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its
characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more]Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 5 in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access,
biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural
diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond
the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its
characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more]Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 4 in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access,
biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle
cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of
art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in
which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance
of…[Read more]Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 2 in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access, biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more]
Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited CfP: Cities on Fire: Environmental History of Urban Conflagrations in Early Modern and Modern Periods in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Papers focusing on the urban environmental history of fires are invited for a panel to be submitted to
the European Society for Environmental History conference, which will be held at the
University of Bristol in July 2021.Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Architecture as Portrait: Exoticism and the Royal Character of the Louvre, 1380–1681 in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 7 months ago
The architectural evolution of the Louvre between the 15th and 17th centuries is characterized by systematic attempts to distinguish the building within the broader context of French styles. In the 15th and early 16th centuries, this is achieved by producing grander and more elaborate versions of the contemporary French architectural solutions.…[Read more]
Raphael Grazziano deposited Todo objeto é uma imagem: Sauerbruch Hutton segundo Harun Farocki Every object is an image: Sauerbruch Hutton according to Harun Farocki in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Harun Farocki’s last film, Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (2013), is studied by comparing it to other works by the director and analyzing its scenes. The article elaborates what is the position of this office regarding architecture as a producer of images, and then verifies what is its underlying spatiality. As a result, one can see how the…[Read more]
Annika McQueen deposited What part did decorative plasterwork play in the transformation of the Great House before 1660? in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 9 months ago
This essay argues that the changes that occurred in the form, function, material and internal decorative schemes of the Great House before 1660 was less of a transformation and more of a slow evolution. The popularity of plasterwork in the Great House from the Tudors to the Restoration, demonstrates its importance in the evolution of such…[Read more]
Annika McQueen deposited Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660 – 1815 in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 9 months, 1 week ago
This dissertation ‘Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660-1815’ addresses the lack of a localised study on this building type and supplements the wider body of work that has been undertaken, on inn form, function and innkeeping lifestyles in other regions of England during the long eighteenth century.
Danielle Skjelver started the topic Call for Peer Reviewers in the discussion
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 10 months ago
The History of Applied Science & Technology Open Access Textbook editors seek peer reviewers for all regions and all periods.
Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited Sensory Histories of Place Workshop in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Program of the Sensory Histories of Place workshop, organized by me and Elvan Baştürk Cobb, at ANAMED in 2015.
Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 1 (2019) – Foreword in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Rising on the shoulders of the İstanbul Araştırmaları Yıllığı / Annual of Istanbul Studies, the relaunched YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies is now peer-reviewed. Thanks to a reformed advisory board, whose expertise covers all periods and disciplines in the study of Istanbul’s past and present, the journal now sets a much higher academic…[Read more]
Raphael Grazziano deposited Virtualities and contradictions in the space under global patterns: LEED® and corporate architecture in São Paulo in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
LEED® is a North American system created to assess sustainability parameters in buildings. It is managed by USGBC®, that was formed in the early 1990s. LEED®’s technical aspects are examined in order to clarify its operation premises, following the research hypothesis that these premises would have impact in the disciplines of architecture and ur…[Read more]
Raphael Grazziano deposited O eficiente motor do status quo in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
Analysis of the idea of “efficiency” and its deadlock in environmental studies, mainly discussing the Jevons Paradox.
Raphael Grazziano deposited Aspectos do debate entre realismo socialista e concretismo: a obra de vilanova artigas in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
This monograph explores the ambivalent position of Artigas in the political-cultural debate of the Cold War, during the 1950s, when two principal art movements were opposed. On one side, socialist realist tendencies that emerged in post-revolutionary Russia, particularly after the ascension of Stalin, who intended it to be the new art of the…[Read more]
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