Toward a Geography of Architectural Criticism: Disciplinary Boundaries and Shared Territories (Paris)
Mapping Architectural Criticism Third International Symposium
Université Rennes 2, Archives de la Critique d’art – Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Toward a Geography of Architectural Criticism: Disciplinary Boundaries and Shared Territories
Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Académie d’Architecture, Paris, April 3-4, 2017
This international symposium is part of the ANR research project Mapping Architectural Criticism (http://mac.hypotheses.org), which aims to develop a field of research on the history of architectural criticism, from the last decades of the 19th century to the present day. The symposium intends to debate two key questions related to the geographies of criticism: what are criticism’s disciplinary boundaries and which territories has criticism shared from the last decades of the 19th to the end of the 20th century with other disciplines.
In the first place, the symposium interrogates the overlapping of architectural criticism with different kinds of architectural writing, in particular those pertaining to architectural history and theory, but also those stemming from other disciplines.
The symposium is equally aimed at highlighting the relationships, the common terrains, and the conceptual tools that architectural criticism has in common with other genres of criticism, such as art criticism and literary criticism.
Ce colloque international s’inscrit dans le Programme ANR Mapping Architectural Criticism (2015-2017), dont l’objectif est de développer un champ de recherche sur la critique architecturale des dernières décennies du 19e siècle à aujourd’hui. Il débattra deux questions clé, relatives aux « géographies » de la critique d’architecture : ses frontières disciplinaires et ses territoires partagés, notamment avec la critique d’autres disciplines, depuis les dernières décennies du 19e siècle.
Le colloque interroge les frontières et les terrains communs de la critique avec différents types d’écrits sur l’architecture : il vise à mettre en évidence les relations, les terrains communs et les outils conceptuels que la critique architecturale partage avec l’histoire de l’architecture, les théories, mais également avec des écrits émanant d’autres disciplines.
Le symposium met également en lumière les relations, les terrains et les outils conceptuels que la critique architecturale partage avec d'autres « genres » de critique, comme la critique d'art ou la critique littéraire.
Monday, April 3, 2017: Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, salle Vasari
09:30 Registration and Welcome Address
09:45 Introduction
Session 1. Intellectual Territories: Borrowing Tools and Rhetorics from Other Disciplines Chair: Paolo Scrivano, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
10:15 Stefania Kenley Independent Scholar, Paris
Blind Spot in the Visual Field of Art-architecture Criticism
10:45 Valeria Lattante ABC, Politecnico di Milano
The Concept of Tradition from T. S. Eliot Literary Critic to E. N. Rogers Architectural Theory
11:15 Coffee break
11:30 Raúl Martínez Department of History and Theory of Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech.
Geoffrey Scott’s The Architecture of Humanism at the Inception of Bruno Zevi’s Theoretical Corpus
12:00 Jasna Galjer Department of Art History, University of Zagreb
Cultural Exchange as Architecture’s Expanded Field
12:30 Adrian Anagnost Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University, New Orleans
Critique and Complicity: The Art Critical Lineage of Projective Architecture
Session 2. Political and Geographical Boundaries
Chair: Giovanni Leoni, Università di Bologna
14:30 Jianfei Zhu University of Melbourne
Towards a New Criticism on Architecture of Contemporary China: The Case of He Jingtang (1938-)
15:00 Charlotte Ashby Department of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London
The Archaeology of Finnish Architectural Criticism
15:30 Christina Pech Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Criticism on Display. The Swedish Museum of Architecture and the Production of History in the mid-1970s
16:00 Discussion
17:00 Key-note Lecture: Marco Biraghi, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, What does it mean architecture?
Tuesday, April 4, 2017: Académie d’Architecture, Paris
09:30 Manuelle Gautrand (Présidente de l’Académie d’Architecture): Welcome Address
Session 3. Judging Architecture: Professional, Popular or Academic Criticism?
Chair: Réjean Legault, Université du Québec à Montréal
09:45 Christina Contandriopoulos Department of Art History, Université du Québec à Montréal
Against the Wall: the Birth of Architectural Criticism in Early 19th Century Paris
10:15 Michela Rosso Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino
Architectural Criticism and Cultural Satire in the 1980s: Shared Territories and Languages
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Kristen Gagnon Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carleton University, Ottawa
Popular Architecture Criticism: A Definition, a Delineation and a Débâcle
11:30 Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg, Independent Scholar, Germany
Architectural Criticism as Cultural Criticism (“Kulturkritik”) and Professional Criticism (“Fachkritik”). A Case Study on the Example of Werner Hegemann
12:00 Discussion
12:45 Lunch Break
Session 4. Professionalism: the Critic as a Specialist
Chair: Anne Hultzsch, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and Oslo School of Architecture and Design
14:15 Laurens Bulckaen and Rika Devos, BATir Department, École polytechnique de Bruxelles
Louis Cloquet (1849-1920): architectural writings of a critical engineer
14:45 Irene Lund Faculty of Architecture, Université Libre de Bruxelles – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
The multiple origins of modernist architecture criticism in the Belgian avant-garde magazine 7Arts (1922-1927)
15:15 Patrizia Bonifazio Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano
“Zodiac” (1957-1973). Art and technique to define architecture in front of the mass production
15:45 Lorenzo Ciccarelli Department of Architecture, University of Florence
Giovanni Klaus Koenig (1924-1989): Architectural Criticism between Semiology, Industrial Design and Rail Trains
16:30 Roundtable Valéry Didelon (École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais), Réjean Legault (UQAM), Stanislaus von Moos (University of Zurich), Paolo Scrivano (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
Conference Venues
Monday, April 3, 2017
Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, salle Vasari
2 rue Vivienne, 75002, Paris
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Académie d’Architecture
9 place des Vosges, 75004, Paris
Mapping.Crit.Arch: Architectural Criticism 20th and 21st Centuries, a Cartography.
Research Project, Université Rennes 2, EA 1279 Histoire et Critique des Arts – Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Scientific Coordinator Hélène Jannière
Scientific Committee
Nathalie Boulouch (Université Rennes 2 and Archives de la critique d’art),
Anne Hultzsch (Bartlett School London, UCL and Oslo School of Architecture and Design)
Hélène Jannière (Université Rennes 2)
Réjean Legault (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Giovanni Leoni (Università di Bologna)
Paolo Scrivano (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
Laurent Stalder (ETH Zurich, gTA)
Suzanne Stephens (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Alice Thomine-Berrada (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)
Organizing Committee
Alessandro Benetti
Elsa Besson
Nicolas Bisensang
Guillemette Chéneau-Deysine
Hélène Jannière
EA 1279 Histoire et critique des arts
Contact
mappingcritarch@gmail.com
helene.janniere@univ-rennes2.fr
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