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Architecture & Environment
The aim of this group is to (re)consider “environment” both as a central object of enquiry within architectural history and as a methodological framework that calls for re- thinking existing historiography whilst opening the discipline to closely related fields such as environmental and landscape history, geography, histories of science and technology, cultural studies and anthropology/material culture. In recent years, a growing amount of scholarship has emerged, invested in uncovering numerous instances that engage issues of environment within architectural/spatial practices as well as charting historic discourses of environment against a background of disciplinary expansion, in particular during the second half of the twentieth-century. In addition to works that sought to historicize the architecture-environment intersection, scholars working chiefly outside of architectural history have made significant contributions toward developing and qualifying concepts of environment that challenge and overcome binary oppositions such as those of nature vs. culture (including the natural vs. the built or man-made environment), rural vs. industrial, society vs. technology, or subjects vs. objects/things. These different theories place emphasis on understanding environments as complex assemblages, dense material networks of metabolic exchanges/flows, relational systems across varying scales, and encompassing both human and non-human agencies. This renders the relationship between environment and architecture not as primarily dialectic, but as continuous and dynamic, understanding both as densely interwoven with each other, whilst maintaining that, despite these continuities, their relationship is never even and thus remains politically charged.
Group coordinators:
Sophie Hochhäusl, Cornell University, NY
Torsten Lange, ETH Zürich
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Anne Hultzsch posted an update in the group
Architecture and Environment 1 month agoThe interest groups have now announced their events at EAHN2020 in Edinburgh this June – all details and call for participation available here: https://eahn2020.eca.ed.ac.uk/interest-groups/
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Torsten Lange posted an update in the group
Architecture and Environment 1 year, 1 month agoDear All,
On behalf of Isabelle Doucet and Daniel Barber, chairs of the session “Environmental Histories of Architecture: Decolonizing Effort, or Obligation?” at the forthcoming EAHN/SAHANZ joint conference “Distance Looks Back” in Sydney (10–13 July 2019), I am posting the following announcement. For the full CfP, please refer to the documents s…[Read more] -
Sophie posted an update in the group
Architecture and Environment 1 year, 3 months agoDear Friends and Colleagues,
After two and a half years, our article “Field Notes: Architecture and the Environment,” appeared in Architectural Histories this Monday. This article brings
together positions by 15 scholars including Ross Exo Adams, Daniel A. Barber, Aleksandr Bierig, Kenny Cupers, Isabelle Doucet, Jennifer Ferng, Sabine von Fi…[Read more] -
Torsten Lange posted an update in the group
Architecture and Environment 1 year, 9 months agoDear members of the Architecture and Environment Group, dear friends and colleagues,
We warmly invite you to join our thematic interest group meeting during the forthcoming EAHN conference in Tallinn on Wednesday, 13 June 2018, 14:30–16:00. Please note, the starting time of our meeting has been adjusted in consultation with the Gender Group, i…[Read more]
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Sophie Hochäusl Hochhäusl posted an update in the group
Architecture and Environment 3 years agoWe thought many of you might be interested in the exciting call for proposals from the Canadian Center for Architecture “Architecture and/for the Environment.” Applications are due April 21. Please find detailed information at http://www.cca.qc.ca/environment
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Sophie Hochäusl Hochhäusl uploaded the file: Architecture and Environment Questionnaire to
Architecture and Environment 3 years, 8 months agoDear Architecture and the Environment Collaborators,
As an extension to our conversation at EAHN in Dublin we wanted to invite you to respond to one question (or more) attached in this posting, which we would like to publish as a collaborative position paper in Architectural Histories.
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