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Building Word Image
This group aims at opening up word-image studies to the field of architectural history, in which it has so far only rarely been considered. This relatively new multidisciplinary area seeks to question old dichotomies between the verbal and the graphic. Arguing that neither text nor image can ever be a pure medium independent of the other, we invite scholars currently exploring relationships between building, text and image to join us in exploring the following questions: how do word and image collaborate with, contrast to, or depend on, each other in architectural representation? Can we detect shifts in how they have done so in the past, and what would be the result of these on the cultural role of the built environment? Finally, what are appropriate methods to investigate such mixed medialities in relation to the built?
Enquiring about the common grounds, or the points of divergence, between word and image in the dissemination of architecture, the group will promote debate on the role that words and images – through collaboration, contrast or independence – play, and have played, in the physical and mental construction of the modern city and its spaces. Methodologically, it will do this, first, through an international exchange of contents and sources and, second, by debating specific approaches to the simultaneous investigation of word, image and building. Its originality lies in bringing the theoretical framework of word-image studies, often developed within the disciplines of poetics or visual cultures, to that of architectural history. We invite researchers working on any period and any geographical region to join us in the search for new methodologies for word-image studies within architectural history.
Group coordinators:
Anne Hultzsch, Oslo School of Architecture and University College London
Catalina Mejia Moreno, Newcastle University and University of Brighton
Documents List
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EAHN2018 Interest Group Events Report
At each biennial conference, the EAHN interest groups are given the opportunity to hold meetings which can range from brainstorming sessions or business meetings to more planned workshops. They are open to all conference participants and meant to carry forward the EAHN’s mission to be an open, non-hierarchical and welcoming network. This document contains short reports of the group events held in Tallinn at EAHN2018 on 13 June 2018.
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Architecture Published Roundtable: Past Present Future
Side event of the EAHN interest group Word & Image in Tallinn. Organised by Anne Hultzsch (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design) and Catalina Mejía Moreno (Brighton University)
Wednesday, 13 June 2018, National Library of Estonia
All welcome.
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CfP new journal: ABATON. FIGURACIÓN, REPRESENTACIÓN E IMÁGENES DE LA ARQUITECTURA
ABATON journal aims to be an instrument of diffusion, articulation and exchange
of research and sources around the representation of architecture, both through the
images that have dreamed, designed and represented from the XVIth century to the
present (architectural paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and media) or
architectures written in utopias, treaties or manuscripts and other stories. This
publication comes within the objectives of the research group at the Complutense
University, "Figuración, Representación e Imágenes de la Arquitectura" (FRIA)
since its formation began to have a wide activity with publications, exhibitions,
educational innovation projects and organizing seminars attended by academics,
professors from foreign universities and prominent members of institutions
dedicated to research. ABATON is published under Complutense university
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Building Word Image @ EAHN 2016
Side event at the Fourth International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network in Dublin, 1 June 2016, 2-3.30pm
Board Room, National University of Ireland (49 Merrion Square East)
