Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the European Architectural History Network

532 Pages·2018·15.934 MB·English

by  Andres Kurg, Karin Vicente (eds.)

PROCEEDINGS
of the
FIFTH
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
of the
EUROPEAN
ARCHITECTURAL
HISTORY
NETWORK
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EAHN 2018 EAHN 2018
PROCEEDINGS
of the
FIFTH
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
of the
EUROPEAN
ARCHITECTURAL
HISTORY
NETWORK
Edited by
Andres Kurg & Karin Vicente
Estonian Academy of Arts
2018
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EAHN 2018 EAHN 2018
PROCEEDINGS
of the
FIFTH
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
of the
EUROPEAN
ARCHITECTURAL
HISTORY
NETWORK
Edited by
Andres Kurg & Karin Vicente
Estonian Academy of Arts
2018
2 3
CREDITS INTRODUCTION
International Scientific Committee This electronic publication brings together papers and abstracts from the
Howayda Al-Harithy,
Fifth International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network
American University of Beirut
Ljiljana Blagojević, (EAHN), held in Tallinn between 13-16 June 2018. The organization‘s biannual
Independent Scholar, Belgrade international meeting, is its largest gathering, and has previously been held
Mark Crinson, in Guimarães (2010), Brussels (2012), Turin (2014), and Dublin (2016). As
University of London
EAHN’s first meeting in north-eastern Europe, this year’s Tallinn conference
Hilde Heynen,
Catholic University Leuven continues to expand the organization’s geographical reach, reflecting its
Stephan Hoppe, aspiration to critically address centre-periphery relations within Europe.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Unlike many other large conventions of professional associations, the
München
EAHN international meeting does not have an overarching theme, instead
Merlijn Hurx,
Utrecht University it aims to map the present state of research, whilst actively promoting
Kathleen James-Chakraborty, critical discussion and expanding the field of architectural history through
University College Dublin embracing new research trajectories. As such, the conference chooses not to
Andres Kurg,
limit itself to any one particular historical period or geographical region, but
Estonian Academy of Arts
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, instead tries to include the widest possible variety of approaches to the built
Yale University environment.
Nuno Senos, The final program of this year’s Tallinn conference was put together
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
through two consecutive open calls. In December 2016, session and round

table proposals were submitted for selection to an International Scientific
Committee, who selected 24 sessions and two round tables out of 90 high-
Edited by:
level proposals. In September 2017, the chosen sessions and round tables
Andres Kurg & Karin Vicente
solicited papers through a subsequent call and the selection of speakers
Graphic Design: was made by the chairs of each panel. As the call for papers produced
Indrek Sirkel almost four times as many abstracts as could be accepted, the programme
committee decided to add two open sessions, with each chair putting
Copy Editing:
Stina Sarapuu forward two of the strongest proposals which the conference had perviously
not been able to accommodate. As a result, the meeting in Tallinn includes
Language Editing: 26 sessions with 121 papers and two round tables with 11 position papers.
Mark Taylor
In composing the final programme, the Scientific Committee organised
Supported by the selected sessions into five parallel tracks that are loosely thematically
Estonian Cultural Endowment related and run throughout all three days. ‘Mediations’ gathers together
Estonian Research Council grant no. IUT32-1 sessions observing the history of the sites of architectural knowledge
production – such as architectural criticism, architectural magazines, and
foundations supporting architectural research. It also addresses the status
of colour, and the role of history as mediated in the architecture of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
‘Comparative Modernities’ brings together sessions that address supra-
Published by
Estonian Academy of Arts national networks and institutions as channels for instigating the processes
June 2018 of global modernity: comprador networks in Asia in the nineteenth and early
twentieth century, UN development programmes in non-Western countries in
the mid-twentieth century, centrally administered design institutions in the
Socialist block, and private developers in post-war Welfare states. Positing
ISBN 978-9949-594-64-1 this kind of analytical framework demands a rethink of architectural history’s
traditional categories and vocabulary. In a similar way ‘Postmodernism’ is
4 5
CREDITS INTRODUCTION
International Scientific Committee This electronic publication brings together papers and abstracts from the
Howayda Al-Harithy,
Fifth International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network
American University of Beirut
Ljiljana Blagojević, (EAHN), held in Tallinn between 13-16 June 2018. The organization‘s biannual
Independent Scholar, Belgrade international meeting, is its largest gathering, and has previously been held
Mark Crinson, in Guimarães (2010), Brussels (2012), Turin (2014), and Dublin (2016). As
University of London
EAHN’s first meeting in north-eastern Europe, this year’s Tallinn conference
Hilde Heynen,
Catholic University Leuven continues to expand the organization’s geographical reach, reflecting its
Stephan Hoppe, aspiration to critically address centre-periphery relations within Europe.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Unlike many other large conventions of professional associations, the
München
EAHN international meeting does not have an overarching theme, instead
Merlijn Hurx,
Utrecht University it aims to map the present state of research, whilst actively promoting
Kathleen James-Chakraborty, critical discussion and expanding the field of architectural history through
University College Dublin embracing new research trajectories. As such, the conference chooses not to
Andres Kurg,
limit itself to any one particular historical period or geographical region, but
Estonian Academy of Arts
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, instead tries to include the widest possible variety of approaches to the built
Yale University environment.
Nuno Senos, The final program of this year’s Tallinn conference was put together
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
through two consecutive open calls. In December 2016, session and round

table proposals were submitted for selection to an International Scientific
Committee, who selected 24 sessions and two round tables out of 90 high-
Edited by:
level proposals. In September 2017, the chosen sessions and round tables
Andres Kurg & Karin Vicente
solicited papers through a subsequent call and the selection of speakers
Graphic Design: was made by the chairs of each panel. As the call for papers produced
Indrek Sirkel almost four times as many abstracts as could be accepted, the programme
committee decided to add two open sessions, with each chair putting
Copy Editing:
Stina Sarapuu forward two of the strongest proposals which the conference had perviously
not been able to accommodate. As a result, the meeting in Tallinn includes
Language Editing: 26 sessions with 121 papers and two round tables with 11 position papers.
Mark Taylor
In composing the final programme, the Scientific Committee organised
Supported by the selected sessions into five parallel tracks that are loosely thematically
Estonian Cultural Endowment related and run throughout all three days. ‘Mediations’ gathers together
Estonian Research Council grant no. IUT32-1 sessions observing the history of the sites of architectural knowledge
production – such as architectural criticism, architectural magazines, and
foundations supporting architectural research. It also addresses the status
of colour, and the role of history as mediated in the architecture of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
‘Comparative Modernities’ brings together sessions that address supra-
Published by
Estonian Academy of Arts national networks and institutions as channels for instigating the processes
June 2018 of global modernity: comprador networks in Asia in the nineteenth and early
twentieth century, UN development programmes in non-Western countries in
the mid-twentieth century, centrally administered design institutions in the
Socialist block, and private developers in post-war Welfare states. Positing
ISBN 978-9949-594-64-1 this kind of analytical framework demands a rethink of architectural history’s
traditional categories and vocabulary. In a similar way ‘Postmodernism’ is
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INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION
re-thought in one session in this track through juxtaposing Western-centric Taken together, the tracks, round tables and the interest group meeting
definitions of the term alongside examples of architectural practices within aim to give an overview of the discussions, subjects of research and
the Eastern block. emerging tendencies in architectural history throughout Europe and beyond,
The track ‘Peripheries’ aims to rethink European architectural anno 2018. Recognizing the contingency of this kind of overview, and
historiography, looks at the Tasman world, Europe’s islamic architecture the partiality of any attempt to represent the whole field of scholarship,
and rural modernism. These sessions aim to demonstrate that ‘periphery‘ we nevertheless believe in the role of the EAHN transnational meetings
is a relational rather than a strictly geographical term, which plays out as a means of developing a new kind of platform that brings together
in multifaceted relationships, in various locations. Examples range from authoritative scholaship as well as more polemical and overtly political
mosques in West-European metropolitan cities, or modernism in rural accounts, providing space for asking uncomfortable questions, and raising
farm settlements, to the paradoxical status of a country such as Greece – problems that exceed the confines of national traditions.
simultaneously praised as a cradle of European architecture yet considered I want to express the pleasure of our organising team in welcoming this
‘peripheral’ when viewed through the lens of Western modernism. year’s conference participants to Tallinn, and hope that the research papers,
‘Discovery and Persistence’ looks at the early modern world: its position papers, polemics and conversations presented and conducted over
residential systems, the longue durée of the baroque in Europe, the coming days will contribute to the future of architectural research,
representations of the Orient before the nineteenth century and the exploring and challenging the study of the built environment in all its forms.
representation of architecture in erudite writing. It also highlights the
rediscovery of Roman antiquity during the Renaissance, foregrounding the Andres Kurg,
archival documentation of sixteenth-century archaeological work undertaken Conference Chair
in Rome.
Finally, ‘Body and Mind’ brings together a diverse set of sessions,
addressing, amongst numerous other issues, the fascination with the
‘irrational’ and surreal present in late modern and postmodern architecture,
as well as mapping various structures which have historically operationalized
the body. The latter category includes children’s architecture designed to
train future (ideological) subjects, the architecture of reform from the late
nineteenth century, and the mid-twentieth-century architecture of creativity
which gave rise to new kinds of work spaces and classrooms.
The proceedings also include papers and abstracts from two round
tables and one Thematic Interest Group meeting. In ‘Who (Still) Needs
Eastern Europe’ panelists debate about the recent transformations of
the term ‘Eastern Europe’ in architectural studies, tracing how its earlier
usage – in reference to the Habsburg empire and its aftermath – has been
assimilated within the more recent history of the Communist block. The
second roundtable, ‘Beyond Instrumentality: Environmental Histories
of Architecture’, probes the methodological challenges faced by those
attempting to approach architectural writing from an environmental
perspective.
The meeting of the Latin American Interest Group, preceding the main
programme of the conference, was titled Latin American Dialogues and
includes papers dealing with encounters and cultural transfer between
Latin America and Europe since the nineteenth century: the displacement
of European architects to Latin America, transfers of architectural models
through writing and images, historiographical constructions that interpret
and adapt European narratives.
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INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION
re-thought in one session in this track through juxtaposing Western-centric Taken together, the tracks, round tables and the interest group meeting
definitions of the term alongside examples of architectural practices within aim to give an overview of the discussions, subjects of research and
the Eastern block. emerging tendencies in architectural history throughout Europe and beyond,
The track ‘Peripheries’ aims to rethink European architectural anno 2018. Recognizing the contingency of this kind of overview, and
historiography, looks at the Tasman world, Europe’s islamic architecture the partiality of any attempt to represent the whole field of scholarship,
and rural modernism. These sessions aim to demonstrate that ‘periphery‘ we nevertheless believe in the role of the EAHN transnational meetings
is a relational rather than a strictly geographical term, which plays out as a means of developing a new kind of platform that brings together
in multifaceted relationships, in various locations. Examples range from authoritative scholaship as well as more polemical and overtly political
mosques in West-European metropolitan cities, or modernism in rural accounts, providing space for asking uncomfortable questions, and raising
farm settlements, to the paradoxical status of a country such as Greece – problems that exceed the confines of national traditions.
simultaneously praised as a cradle of European architecture yet considered I want to express the pleasure of our organising team in welcoming this
‘peripheral’ when viewed through the lens of Western modernism. year’s conference participants to Tallinn, and hope that the research papers,
‘Discovery and Persistence’ looks at the early modern world: its position papers, polemics and conversations presented and conducted over
residential systems, the longue durée of the baroque in Europe, the coming days will contribute to the future of architectural research,
representations of the Orient before the nineteenth century and the exploring and challenging the study of the built environment in all its forms.
representation of architecture in erudite writing. It also highlights the
rediscovery of Roman antiquity during the Renaissance, foregrounding the Andres Kurg,
archival documentation of sixteenth-century archaeological work undertaken Conference Chair
in Rome.
Finally, ‘Body and Mind’ brings together a diverse set of sessions,
addressing, amongst numerous other issues, the fascination with the
‘irrational’ and surreal present in late modern and postmodern architecture,
as well as mapping various structures which have historically operationalized
the body. The latter category includes children’s architecture designed to
train future (ideological) subjects, the architecture of reform from the late
nineteenth century, and the mid-twentieth-century architecture of creativity
which gave rise to new kinds of work spaces and classrooms.
The proceedings also include papers and abstracts from two round
tables and one Thematic Interest Group meeting. In ‘Who (Still) Needs
Eastern Europe’ panelists debate about the recent transformations of
the term ‘Eastern Europe’ in architectural studies, tracing how its earlier
usage – in reference to the Habsburg empire and its aftermath – has been
assimilated within the more recent history of the Communist block. The
second roundtable, ‘Beyond Instrumentality: Environmental Histories
of Architecture’, probes the methodological challenges faced by those
attempting to approach architectural writing from an environmental
perspective.
The meeting of the Latin American Interest Group, preceding the main
programme of the conference, was titled Latin American Dialogues and
includes papers dealing with encounters and cultural transfer between
Latin America and Europe since the nineteenth century: the displacement
of European architects to Latin America, transfers of architectural models
through writing and images, historiographical constructions that interpret
and adapt European narratives.
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CONTENTS CONTENTS
46 Ameliorating Research in Architecture: The Nuffield Trust and
MEDIATIONS the Postwar Hospital David Theodore
47 State-Funded Militant Infrastructure? CERFI’s
23 RETHINKING ARCHITECTURAL COLOUR ‘Équipements collectif’ in the Intellectual History of Architecture
Conor Lucey, Lynda Mulvin Meredith TenHoor
25 The Colourful Middle Ages? Anneli Randla 48 Workplace Politics: The Influence and Legacy of Public-Private
Collaboration in DEGW’s Office Research Building Information
31 Pioneer Polychromy: Geology, Industry and Aesthetics in Irish Technology (ORBIT) Study (1983) Amy Thomas
Victorian Architecture Christine Casey
49 LAUNCHING THE ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE:
32 Ornament without Ornamenting: Whiteness as the Default THE FORMATION OF A GENRE
Materiality of Modernism Susanne Bauer Anne Hultzsch
33 A New Chromatic Vision: The Early Impact of Colour Photography 51 Printing a New Style: The First Swedish Architectural Magazine
in Architecture Angelo Maggi and the Creation of Modern Scandinavian Architecture in the
1850s Anna Ripatti
35 MEDIATING ARCHITECTURE AND ITS AUDIENCES:
THE ARCHITECTURAL CRITIC 52 ‘An Intimate Cooperation of the Intellectual Forces of German
Maristella Casciato, Gary Fox Technology’: Professional Organisations and Their Jounals in the
German Countries Christiane Weber
37 Critique vs Criticism: Giulio Carlo Argan and the Manifold
Practices of Critica Cesare Birignani 63 Architecture and Editorial Culture: The Role of the Architect
and Criticism in the Formation of the Portuguese Architectural
38 Architects vs. the Public in Architectural Criticism: From the Press Magazines Rute Figueiredo
to Radio and Television Jessica Kelly
64 The Emergence of the Professional Architectural Magazine in
39 Designs on TV: Aline Bernstein Saarinen and Public Reception of China Kai Wang, Ying Wang
Architecture in the Postwar US Emily Pugh
65 A Tale of Two Journals: The Early Years of La Casa Bella and Domus
40 Data Dread and Architectural Criticism Matthew Allen Klaus Tragbar

41 The ‘Critical’ in the Architectural Criticism of Kenneth Frampton 77 COMING BACK TO HAUNT YOU:
Mary McLeod THE HISTORY OF REJECTING HISTORY IN ARCHITECTURE
Mari Hvattum
42 THE FOUNDATIONS OF ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH
Barbara Penner, Charles Rice 79 The Great Labyrinth: Schinkel’s Struggles Against History
Emma Letizia Jones
44 Research as Persuasion: Architectural Research in
the Tennessee Valley Authority Avigail Sachs 80 The Modernity of Rejecting Modernity in Architecture
Richard Wittman
45 Late Portuguese Colonialism in Africa: The Role of
the Agência Geral do Ultramar Ana Vaz Milheiro 81 Riegl’s Untimely Walls Lucia Allais
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CONTENTS CONTENTS
46 Ameliorating Research in Architecture: The Nuffield Trust and
MEDIATIONS the Postwar Hospital David Theodore
47 State-Funded Militant Infrastructure? CERFI’s
23 RETHINKING ARCHITECTURAL COLOUR ‘Équipements collectif’ in the Intellectual History of Architecture
Conor Lucey, Lynda Mulvin Meredith TenHoor
25 The Colourful Middle Ages? Anneli Randla 48 Workplace Politics: The Influence and Legacy of Public-Private
Collaboration in DEGW’s Office Research Building Information
31 Pioneer Polychromy: Geology, Industry and Aesthetics in Irish Technology (ORBIT) Study (1983) Amy Thomas
Victorian Architecture Christine Casey
49 LAUNCHING THE ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE:
32 Ornament without Ornamenting: Whiteness as the Default THE FORMATION OF A GENRE
Materiality of Modernism Susanne Bauer Anne Hultzsch
33 A New Chromatic Vision: The Early Impact of Colour Photography 51 Printing a New Style: The First Swedish Architectural Magazine
in Architecture Angelo Maggi and the Creation of Modern Scandinavian Architecture in the
1850s Anna Ripatti
35 MEDIATING ARCHITECTURE AND ITS AUDIENCES:
THE ARCHITECTURAL CRITIC 52 ‘An Intimate Cooperation of the Intellectual Forces of German
Maristella Casciato, Gary Fox Technology’: Professional Organisations and Their Jounals in the
German Countries Christiane Weber
37 Critique vs Criticism: Giulio Carlo Argan and the Manifold
Practices of Critica Cesare Birignani 63 Architecture and Editorial Culture: The Role of the Architect
and Criticism in the Formation of the Portuguese Architectural
38 Architects vs. the Public in Architectural Criticism: From the Press Magazines Rute Figueiredo
to Radio and Television Jessica Kelly
64 The Emergence of the Professional Architectural Magazine in
39 Designs on TV: Aline Bernstein Saarinen and Public Reception of China Kai Wang, Ying Wang
Architecture in the Postwar US Emily Pugh
65 A Tale of Two Journals: The Early Years of La Casa Bella and Domus
40 Data Dread and Architectural Criticism Matthew Allen Klaus Tragbar

41 The ‘Critical’ in the Architectural Criticism of Kenneth Frampton 77 COMING BACK TO HAUNT YOU:
Mary McLeod THE HISTORY OF REJECTING HISTORY IN ARCHITECTURE
Mari Hvattum
42 THE FOUNDATIONS OF ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH
Barbara Penner, Charles Rice 79 The Great Labyrinth: Schinkel’s Struggles Against History
Emma Letizia Jones
44 Research as Persuasion: Architectural Research in
the Tennessee Valley Authority Avigail Sachs 80 The Modernity of Rejecting Modernity in Architecture
Richard Wittman
45 Late Portuguese Colonialism in Africa: The Role of
the Agência Geral do Ultramar Ana Vaz Milheiro 81 Riegl’s Untimely Walls Lucia Allais
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CONTENTS CONTENTS
82 Collage/ Camouflage: Mies’s and Reich’s Strategies to Engage 109 CENTRALIZATIONS AND TERRITORIES IN THE ARCHITECTURAL
the Past Laura Martínez de Guereñu PRODUCTION OF THE SOCIALIST WORLD
Richard Anderson, Elke Beyer
83 Specters of Modernism Mari Lending
111 The Unsettling Norms: Identity Politics in China’s Search for
Socialist Architecture with National Form Yan Geng
COMPARATIVE MODERNITIES
112 Revisiting Socialist Baltic Regionalism: Between Local Myths and
Critical Approaches Marija Drėmaitė
87 COMPRADOR NETWORKS AND COMPARATIVE MODERNITIES
Lawrence Chua 113 Adapting Soviet Prefabricated Housing for the Regions
Nikolay Erofeev
89 Building Cosmopolitanism: Reconsidering the Comprador
as Contractor in the Formation of Shanghai’s Lilong Nora Boyd 114 Architects Displaced: Making Architecture at the Periphery in
Communist Romania Dana Vais
90 The Twentieth-Century Godowns along the Singapore River
Yuk Hong Ian Tan 125 Dialectics of Centrality in the Global Cold War Łukasz Stanek
91 Sugar and the City: The Contribution of Three Chinese-Indonesian 126 THE UNITED NATIONS IN THE NON-WESTERN WORLD:
Compradors to Modern Architecture and Planning in the Dutch NORMS AND FORMS OF ‘DEVELOPMENT’ PROGRAMMES
East Indies, 1900–1942 Pauline K.M. van Roosmalen Tom Avermaete, Samia Henni
92 Modernizing Macao, the Old-Fashioned Way: Macanese and 128 ‘A World Picture’?: The UN’s Audio-Visual Apparatus for Mediating
Chinese Entrepreneurship in the Colonial City Regina Campinho Habitat, 1976 Felicity D. Scott

102 THE POLITICAL AESTHETICS OF POSTMODERNISM: 129 Open Door: UNBRO and the Spatial Planning of Cambodian-Thai
BETWEEN LATE SOCIALISM AND LATE CAPITALISM Refugee Camps Jennifer Ferng
Léa-Catherine Szacka, Maroš Krivý
130 Counter Currenting: The Production of Locality in the Case of the
104 Provincializing Postmodernism: Appropriation and Transformation Training for Self Reliance Project [TSRP] – Lesotho, 1983–1987
of Postmodern Tropes in Česká Lípa Ana Miljački Iain Low
105 National in Form, Socialist in Content: Postmodern Architecture on 131 Tourism and Leisure Politics: The United Nations Development
the Soviet Periphery Angela Wheeler Agenda in Cyprus Panayiota Pyla, Dimitris Venizelos
106 Contra the Late-Socialist Vaudeville: Critiques of Postmodernism 132 Infrastructure of Pan-Africanism: The Trans-African Highway
in East Germany Torsten Lange Network Kenny Cupers
107 Postmodernism and Neoliberalism in Santiago de Chile in the 133 BUILDING FOR PROSPERITY: PRIVATE DEVELOPERS AND THE
1980s Daniel Talesnik WESTERN-EUROPEAN WELFARE STATE
Tim Verlaan, Alistair Kefford
108 The Prince and The Pauper: The Politics of Stirling’s Irony
Joseph Bedford 135 ‘Uneasy Bedfellows’ Conceiving Urban Megastructures: Breeding
Consumer-Citizens in British New Towns Janina Gosseye
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