Writing architectural history : evidence and narrative in architectural history

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Publication details: Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 2021Description: ix,350pISBN:

9780822946847

Subject(s):

Technology Architecture--Historiography Architecture--Research

DDC classification:

720.722 AGG

Contents:

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Evidence, Narrative, and Writing Architectural History Daniel M. Abramson, Zeynep Celik Alexander, and Michael Osman PART 1 Legends Chapter 1 The Fires of Saint-Domingue, or, Landscapes of the Haitian Revolution Peter Mlnosh 19 Chapter 2 Known Unknowns: The Documentary History of the Franklin Ghost House Edward Elgen 33 Chapter 3 Vacuum Suction Conveyance, Part II Meredith TenHoor 46 PART II Self-Evidence Chapter 4 Talkative Timbers: A. E. Douglass, the Beam Expeditions, and the Construction of Architectural Evidence Albert Narath 63 Chapter 5 Concrete Is One Hundred Years Old: The Carbonation Equation and Narratives of Anthropogenic Change Lucia Allais and Forrest Meggers 75 Chapter 6 Medieval and Renaissance Money: On Trial, On Architecture Lauren Jacobi 90 PART Ill Data Chapter 7 From Truth to Proof: Friedrich Adler's Medieval Brick Architecture of the Prussian States Laila Seewang 103 Chapter 8 The Banister Fletchers' Tabulations Zeynep Celik Alexander and Michael Osman 117 Chapter 9 Evidence and Narrative in Digital Art History: Exploratory Methods for Weimar Architecture Paul B, Jaskot and lvo van der Graaff 133 PART IV Pairings Chapter 10 Comparative Architecture and Its Discontents Roy Kozlovsky 147 Chapter 11 When Baghdad Was Like Warsaw: Comparison in the Cold War Lukasz Stanek 162 Chapter 12 Forensic Architecture as Symptom 177 Andrew Herscher Chapter 13 Architectural History after Sebald's Austerlitz: A Squirrel's Hoard, a Curved Road Daniel M. Abramson 190 PART V Testimony Chapter 14 Failing Memories and Forgotten Histories: The Dispute over the Venetian Church of San Giobbe Janna Israel 203 Chapter 15 Settling Imaginations: Between Dust and Silt ljlal Muzaffar 214 Chapter 16 Dadaab Is a Place on Earth: Land and the Migrant Archive Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi 227 Chapter 17 Learning from Johannesburg: Unpacking Denise Scott Brown's South African View of Las Vegas Ayala Levin 235 PART VI Retrials Chapter 18 Architectural Narratives of Habeas Corpus on the High Seas: Charles Frederick Lees versus the Crown Lisa Haber-Thomson 249 Chapter 19 "This Whole Maze of Evidence": Revisiting Professionalism and Property through Hunt v. Parmly Erik Carver 260 Chapter 20 "Striking and Imposing Beauty": On the Evidence of Aesthetic Valuation Timothy Hyde 274 Notes 285 Selected Bibliography 333 Contributors 335 Index 341

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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Evidence, Narrative, and Writing Architectural History
Daniel M. Abramson, Zeynep Celik Alexander, and Michael Osman
PART 1 Legends
Chapter 1 The Fires of Saint-Domingue, or, Landscapes of the Haitian Revolution
Peter Mlnosh 19
Chapter 2 Known Unknowns: The Documentary History of the Franklin Ghost House
Edward Elgen 33
Chapter 3 Vacuum Suction Conveyance, Part II
Meredith TenHoor 46
PART II Self-Evidence
Chapter 4 Talkative Timbers: A. E. Douglass, the Beam Expeditions, and the Construction of Architectural Evidence
Albert Narath 63
Chapter 5 Concrete Is One Hundred Years Old: The Carbonation Equation and Narratives of Anthropogenic Change
Lucia Allais and Forrest Meggers 75
Chapter 6 Medieval and Renaissance Money: On Trial, On Architecture
Lauren Jacobi 90
PART Ill Data
Chapter 7 From Truth to Proof: Friedrich Adler's Medieval Brick Architecture of the Prussian States
Laila Seewang 103
Chapter 8 The Banister Fletchers' Tabulations
Zeynep Celik Alexander and Michael Osman 117
Chapter 9 Evidence and Narrative in Digital Art History: Exploratory Methods for Weimar Architecture
Paul B, Jaskot and lvo van der Graaff 133
PART IV Pairings
Chapter 10 Comparative Architecture and Its Discontents
Roy Kozlovsky 147
Chapter 11 When Baghdad Was Like Warsaw: Comparison in the Cold War
Lukasz Stanek 162
Chapter 12 Forensic Architecture as Symptom 177
Andrew Herscher
Chapter 13 Architectural History after Sebald's Austerlitz: A Squirrel's Hoard, a Curved Road
Daniel M. Abramson 190
PART V Testimony
Chapter 14 Failing Memories and Forgotten Histories: The Dispute over the Venetian Church of San Giobbe
Janna Israel 203
Chapter 15 Settling Imaginations: Between Dust and Silt
ljlal Muzaffar 214
Chapter 16 Dadaab Is a Place on Earth: Land and the Migrant Archive
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi 227
Chapter 17 Learning from Johannesburg: Unpacking Denise Scott Brown's South African View of Las Vegas
Ayala Levin 235
PART VI Retrials
Chapter 18 Architectural Narratives of Habeas Corpus on the High Seas: Charles Frederick Lees versus the Crown
Lisa Haber-Thomson 249
Chapter 19 "This Whole Maze of Evidence": Revisiting Professionalism and Property through Hunt v. Parmly
Erik Carver 260
Chapter 20 "Striking and Imposing Beauty": On the Evidence of Aesthetic Valuation
Timothy Hyde 274
Notes 285
Selected Bibliography 333
Contributors 335
Index 341

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