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Instruments
Zeynep Çelik Alexander, John J. May
What would it mean today for architecture to take technics seriously as a site for historical and philosophical reflection?
Before Theory
Lucia Allais, John Harwood
This project is interested in detecting how the trademarks of our field—interdisciplinarity, concern with "method," and engagement with social, economic and political issues—were prepared by architectural historians earlier in the twentieth century.
Evidence + Narrative in Architectural History
Daniel M. Abramson, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Michael Osman
How do architectural historians use evidence and narrative? How can reconsideration of these lead to new histories, other evidence, counter-narratives, and re-imagined agencies?
Aggregate Peer Review Statement
The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Stakes of the Unbuilt
(Peer-reviewed)Daniel M. Abramson
Notes on Architectural Persons
(Peer-reviewed)Timothy Hyde
Neurons and Signifiers
Zeynep Çelik Alexander
Matter
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS
Pamela Karimi, Nasser Rabbat
This dossier of original essays examines the demolition of monuments in the Middle East from the Napoléonic era to the present. The authors describe the impact of obliterating architecture on our psyches, cultures, philosophies, and historiographies. Tracing the mediatiz...
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: Project Description
Pamela Karimi, Nasser Rabbat
The Demise and Afterlife of Artifacts
(Peer-reviewed)Pamela Karimi, Nasser Rabbat
Exhibition and Erasure/Art and Politics
(Peer-reviewed)Annabel Wharton
Memento Mauri: The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba
(Peer-reviewed)Michele Lamprakos
DNA Damage: Violence Against Buildings
(Peer-reviewed)Sussan Babaie
Iconoclasm beyond Negation: Globalization and Image Production in Mosul
(Peer-reviewed)Thomas Stubblefield
Artfare: Aesthetic Profiling from Napoléon to Neoliberalism
(Peer-reviewed)Kirsten Scheid
The Thing We Love(d): Little Girls, Inanimate Objects, and the Violence of a System
(Peer-reviewed)Talinn Grigor
Modernity as Perpetual War or Perpetual Peace?
(Peer-reviewed)Esra Akcan
Appendix: A Selection of News Articles on the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East
Pamela Karimi
Banking, Botany, and Bibliothéconomie: On the Science of Keeping the Books
(Peer-reviewed)Edward Eigen
Mammoths, Inc.: Nature, Architecture, and the Debt, Part 1
(Peer-reviewed)Arindam Dutta
Mammoths, Inc.: Nature, Architecture, and the Debt, Part 2
(Peer-reviewed)Arindam Dutta
Walking as Knowing and Interfering
(Peer-reviewed)Endre Dányi
Response to “The Transformations of Giulio Romano”
Cammy Brothers
The Transformations of Giulio Romano: Palazzo Stati Maccarani
(Peer-reviewed)Mark Rakatansky
Further Reading/Viewing: Walking as Knowing and Interfering
Endre Dányi
Toxics
Jessica Varner, Meredith TenHoor
New Active Plots
Black Lives Matter Call for Work
Meredith TenHoor, Jonathan Massey
What does it mean to put black lives at the center of our thinking about architecture and its history?
Resource Histories
Jonathan Massey, Meredith TenHoor
What new questions and methods emerge when architectural history engages resources such as energy, capital, information, and expertise? Resource Histories explores how an architectural participation in systems, infrastructures, and practices shape governmentality and biop...
Resource Histories Symposium
Jonathan Massey, Meredith TenHoor
Black Lives Matter
Meredith TenHoor, Jonathan Massey
Inspired by the scholars, activists, and everyday citizens who spoke out, marched, and protested against police killings of African-Americans, we present this collection of short essays that put Black lives at the center of our thinking about architecture and its history.
Introduction: Black Lives Matter
Jonathan Massey, Meredith TenHoor, Sben Korsh
Is “Justice Architecture” Just?
Raphael Sperry
Schools and Prisons
Amber Wiley
Fair Policing for the Fair City?
Caitlin Cahill, Brett G. Stoudt, María Elena Torre, Jose Lopez, Researchers for Fair Policing
Defensible Space and the Open Society
Joy Knoblauch
Designing the Great Migration
James D. Graham, Michael Abrahamson
The Invisible Brother with a Brick
Brian Goldstein
Race, Planning, and the American City
Joseph Heathcott
The Rights to the Suburb
Dianne Harris
Air and the Politics of Resistance
Derek R. Ford
Black Spaces Matter
Charles L. Davis II
Toward a Black Formalism
Darell W. Fields
Farming the Revolution
Mike Carriere, Antoine Carter, Fidel Verdin
Valuing Black Lives Means Changing Curricula
Héctor Tarrido-Picart
Indigenous Knowledge and the Decolonization of Architectural Pasts and Futures
Andrew Herscher, Ana María León, Ayala Levin, Meredith TenHoor
How can architectural historians responsibly engage Indigenous knowledge in their research and pedagogy?
Risk Design
(Peer-reviewed)Jonathan Massey
Risk Design Analytic Drawing
Jonathan Massey, Andrew Weigand
30 St. Mary Axe Slideshow
Jonathan Massey
Resource Histories Symposium
Jonathan Massey, Meredith TenHoor
The Labor of Albert Kahn
Claire Zimmerman
Just-So Stories in Real Estate History, or, How the Apartment Tower Got Its Glass Skin
(Peer-reviewed)Sara Stevens
Systems
Governing by Design
Daniel M. Abramson, Lucia Allais, Arindam Dutta, John Harwood, Timothy Hyde, Pamela Karimi, Jonathan Massey, M. Ijlal Muzaffar, Michael Osman, Meredith TenHoor
How does change happen? Who authors design? How does architecture participate in modernization? How does architecture govern?
Governing By Design Introduction
(Peer-reviewed)Daniel M. Abramson, Arindam Dutta, Timothy Hyde, Jonathan Massey
Excerpts from Goverening By Design
Daniel M. Abramson, Lucia Allais, Arindam Dutta, John Harwood, Timothy Hyde, Pamela Karimi, Jonathan Massey, M. Ijlal Muzaffar, Michael Osman, Meredith TenHoor
Reviews of Governing by Design
The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Systems and the South: Architecture in Development
Arindam Dutta, M. Ijlal Muzaffar, Ateya Khorakiwala, Fabiola López-Durán, Ayala Levin
The Design of the Nubian Desert
Lucia Allais
McLuhan’s Environment: The End (and The Beginnings) of Architecture
(Peer-reviewed)Larry D. Busbea
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