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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?
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?
Writing Architectural History: Evidence and Narrative in the Twenty-First Century
Daniel M. Abramson, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Michael Osman, Peter Minosh, Edward Eigen, Meredith TenHoor, Albert Narath, Lucia Allais, Forrest Meggers, Lauren Jacobi, Laila Seewang, Paul B. Jaskot, Ivo van der Graaff, Roy Kozlovsky, Lukasz Stanek, Andrew Herscher, Janna Israel, M. Ijlal Muzaffar, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Ayala Levin, Lisa Haber-Thomson, Erik Carver, Timothy Hyde
Aggregate Peer Review Statement
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
Intersecting Disciplines: Unsettling Architectural History
Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
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
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
Toxics
Meredith TenHoor, Jessica Varner
What does the history of toxics reveal about the history of architecture, and what can the history of architecture contribute to histories of toxics? By narrating histories of materials that so often evade our consciousness, governance, and control, we can understand the ...
Mattering Toxics and Making Toxics Matter in Architecture and Landscape Histories
(Peer-reviewed)Meredith TenHoor, Jessica Varner
Workers’ Bodies and Plywood Production: The Pathological Power of a Hybrid Material
(Peer-reviewed)Janet Ore
“With-On” White: Inconspicuous Modernity with and on Aesthetic Surfaces, 1910–1950
(Peer-reviewed)Ingrid Halland, Marte Johnslien
Unknowing Wastelands in Noah Purifoy’s Desert Art Museum
(Peer-reviewed)Lisa Uddin
Thinking Like a Gulch: Pacific War Heritage, Settler Lands, and Subsurface Toxic Uncertainties in Oʻahu
(Peer-reviewed)Desirée Valadares
Women in the Scrap Heap: Tetanus, Scrap Metals, and Women’s Labor in the Era of the World Wars
(Peer-reviewed)Peter H. Christensen
Pipes, Provision, Profits, Privatization: The Materials of Water Infrastructure in Nineteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica, and London, England
(Peer-reviewed)Jonah Rowen
Cycles of Waste Wood: Low-Cost Construction and the Disposable House
(Peer-reviewed)Erin Putalik
New Toxics Call for Work
Meredith TenHoor, Jessica Varner
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
Signifying Media: The Imprinting of Palladio
(Peer-reviewed)Mark Rakatansky
New “His conduct is mischievous”: Piranesi and Soane
(Peer-reviewed)Mark Rakatansky
New Plots
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
Just-So Stories in Real Estate History, or, How the Apartment Tower Got Its Glass Skin
(Peer-reviewed)Sara Stevens
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
Black Lives Matter Call for Work
Meredith TenHoor, Jonathan Massey
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?
On Collaborations: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Rachel Lee
"On Collaborations: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration" is the third installment of a multisited collection of articles and essays that takes migration as the central concept and historical event behind a set of feminist histories. Excerpts from each contributi...
On Collaborations: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
(Peer-reviewed)Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Rachel Lee
New Working Women and Architectural Work: Hong Kong 1945–1985
(Peer-reviewed)Eunice Seng
Spatial Practices of Dissidence: Identity, Fragmentary Archives, and the Austrian Resistance in Exile, 1938–1945
(Peer-reviewed)S. E. Eisterer
New The Nail-House of the Sent-Down Girl: Exile and Migration in China’s Modern City
(Peer-reviewed)Juan Du
New Birthing, Borders, and Bodies: American Crossings
(Peer-reviewed)Lori A. Brown
New Enclosed Bodies: Locating Cerdá’s Urbanización within Federici’s History of Capitalism
(Peer-reviewed)Ross Exo Adams
Margins, Diffractions, Collaborations: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
Collaborative
Risk Design
(Peer-reviewed)Jonathan Massey
Risk Design Analytic Drawing
Jonathan Massey, Andrew Weigand
30 St. Mary Axe Slideshow
Jonathan Massey
The Labor of Albert Kahn
Claire Zimmerman
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?
Introduction to Governing by Design
Daniel M. Abramson, Arindam Dutta, Timothy Hyde, Jonathan Massey
Excerpts from 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
Reviews of Governing by Design
Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South
Arindam Dutta, Ateya Khorakiwala, Ayala Levin, Fabiola López-Durán, M. Ijlal Muzaffar
Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South
Arindam Dutta, Ateya Khorakiwala, Ayala Levin, Fabiola López-Durán, M. Ijlal Muzaffar, Nikki Moore, Diana Martinez, Sebastiaan Loosen, Viviana d'Auria, Hilde Heynen, Ginger Nolan, Albert José-Antonio López, Felicity D. Scott, Melany Sun-Min Park, Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió, Farhan Karim, Olga Touloumi, Petros Phokaides, Martin Hershenzon, Burak Erdim, Panayiota Pyla, Konstantina Kalfa
Systems and the South: Architecture in Development
Arindam Dutta, Ateya Khorakiwala, Ayala Levin, Fabiola López-Durán, M. Ijlal Muzaffar
Introduction to Architecture in Development
Arindam Dutta, Ateya Khorakiwala, Ayala Levin, Fabiola López-Durán, M. Ijlal Muzaffar
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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