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In Defense of the Validity of the “Canon” in Architecture

ABE Journal, 2012
This position paper reflects on the persistence of the “canon” in architectural history, defending it not only with regard to the discourse of architectural history but for all discussion of architecture. Our argument for the canon’s validity is based on three credos: a) the autonomy of the discipline, b) the merging of the excellent and difficult with
Markus Breitschmid
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In the margin of the canon: Dutch architecture in the first architectural surveys of the nineteenth century [PDF]

Journal of Architecture, 2020
This article is about the troublesome relationship between the two book genres that shaped the rapidly developing discipline in the nineteenth century: the general surveys of architectural history and the monograph on a specific country or building style.
Petra Brouwer
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The Canon and the Void [PDF]

Journal of Architectural Education, 2006
Abstract Architectural history books play a significant role in conveying the culture, norms, and values of the architectural discipline to newcomers. In recent years, numerous publications have spotlighted the importance of women and African Americans as critics, creators, and consumers of the built environment.
Meltem O Gürel, Kathryn H Anthony
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Ambiguities in Terminology and Taxonomy as Factors in the Marginalization of Architectural Styles

ABE Journal, 2012
Although the architectural canon has a reputation as a conservative monolithic corpus, its alleged hostility to novel approaches and readings cannot be regarded as the only factor responsible for the difficulties concerning its ...
Davy Depelchin
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Second-Wave Feminism in Dutch Universities: Revisiting the Work of Feminist Scholars and Its Consequences for Dutch Architectural History [PDF]

Architectural Histories, 2020
This article charts the emergence and development of feminist architectural history in the Netherlands by focusing on the activities of six women whose work spans the 20th century.
Rixt Hoekstra
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Architectural memory and forms of its existence

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2020
The article attempts to highlight the traces of memory in the theory, history and practice of architecture. The subject of research is the existing forms of memory in architecture.
Olena Remizova
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Style and Architecture in a Democratic Perspective

Enquiry: The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research, 2007
The paper deals with research on structural relations between architectural education andcultural and human sciences. The paper addresses two major premises.
Sylvain de Bleeckere
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A Semi-Social Magazine: Love, Life, and Architectural Design

Histories of Postwar Architecture, 2021
This paper analyses the magazine Architectural Design (AD) under the post-war editorship of Monica Pidgeon. Through extensive archival research, content analysis, oral histories, and interviews, I adopt a unique biographical approach to understand the ...
Stephen Parnell
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Drawing images or Architectural drawing

Disegnare con, 2013
In this article we will discuss how the aesthetic values, that the digital imaging provide, has influenced in drawing and architecture in a historical reading of the evolution of each means of architecture expression. In painting art and photography have
Amparo Bernal López-Sanvicente
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Architectural Icons Becoming Obsolete Looking at Film as Pedagogy: Intersectionality Engaged with Architects as Celebrity, Film Pedagogy and the Built Environment

Economia Creativa
Positionality, power, and a mythical fantasy of the architectural profession produced and packaged for both formal and casual dissemination using film is examined and critiqued within the context of an upper-level architectural methodologies seminar ...
Myah Hofer
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