Conference: Origins & Legitimacy of Architecture (Leiden, 1-2 May 15)

Conference: Origins and the Legitimacy of Architecture in Europe, 1750-1850,
May 1 – 02, 2015
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Rapenburg 28, Leiden
Organised by Maarten Delbeke, Sigrid de Jong, Linda Bleijenberg
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)
NWO-VIDI Program The Quest for the Legitimacy of Architecture in
Europe, 1750-1850
Program
Friday 1 May
9.30
Leemanszaal: Registration and coffee
10.00
Welcome by Maarten Delbeke
10.15 – 12.30     Session I : Myths
10.15 – 11.00     Eric Moormann
‘Mehr Modell und Puppenschrank als Gebäude’: How Pompeii did not
enhance architectural studies in the eighteenth century
11.00 – 11.45     Hendrik Ziegler
Goethe and the Classical Canon in Architecture
11.45 – 12.30     Sigrid de Jong
Myths of Origins: Stonehenge in the Royal Academy’s Architectural
Histories
14.00 – 16.15     Session II : Histories
14.00 – 14.45    Erika Naginski
On the Colonial Origins of Architecture: Building the “Maison rustique”
in Cayenne, French Guiana
14.45 – 15.30    Matteo Burioni
Imaginary Geographies and Imagined Beginnings: Pietro della Valle,
Fischer von Erlach, Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
15.30 – 16.15    Petra Brouwer
Origins of architecture in the first architectural history survey texts
of James Fergusson, Franz Kugler and Wilhelm Lübke
17.00
Book presentations Sigrid de Jong, Caroline van Eck
18.00
Keynote Lecture
Mari Hvattum, Heteronomic Historicism
19.00         Reception
Saturday 2 May
9.30         Leemanszaal: Registration and coffee
10.00 – 12.15     Session III : Objects & Language
10.00 – 10.45    Christopher Drew Armstrong
Theorizing the Orient: The Discourse on Origins, Language and Identity
in the Paris Académie des Inscriptions
10.45 – 11.30    Maarten Delbeke
Complexity and contradiction in architecture around 1820
11.30 – 12.15    Ralph Ghoche
‘La pensée simple que présente un cône’: Unity and Simultaneity in
Simon-Claude Constant-Dufeux’s Tomb of Dumont d’Urville
13.45 – 16.00     Session IV : Religions & Rituals
13.45 – 14.30    Tomas Macsotay
The distracted believer and the return to the first basilicae: Marqués
de Ureña’s Reflexiones sobre la arquitectura, ornato, y música del
templo (1785)
14.30 – 15.15    Caroline van Eck
Quatremère de Quincy on the origins of architecture, sculpture and
society. The debate about primitivism among Enlightenment critics of
religion
15.15 – 16.00    Richard Wittman
The Purity of Origins: Architecture in Rome after Napoleon