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Instruments
Zeynep Çelik Alexander, John J. May
What would it mean today for architecture to take technics seriously as a site for historical and philosophical reflection?
Evidence + Narrative in Architectural History
Daniel M. Abramson, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Michael Osman
How do architectural historians use evidence and narrative? How can reconsideration of these lead to new histories, other evidence, counter-narratives, and re-imagined agencies?
Writing Architectural History: Evidence and Narrative in the Twenty-First Century
Daniel M. Abramson, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Michael Osman, Peter Minosh, Edward Eigen, Meredith TenHoor, Albert Narath, Lucia Allais, Forrest Meggers, Lauren Jacobi, Laila Seewang, Paul B. Jaskot, Ivo van der Graaff, Roy Kozlovsky, Lukasz Stanek, Andrew Herscher, Janna Israel, M. Ijlal Muzaffar, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Ayala Levin, Lisa Haber-Thomson, Erik Carver, Timothy Hyde
Aggregate Peer Review Statement
Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Stakes of the Unbuilt
(Peer-reviewed)Daniel M. Abramson
Notes on Architectural Persons
(Peer-reviewed)Timothy Hyde
Neurons and Signifiers
Zeynep Çelik Alexander
Intersecting Disciplines: Unsettling Architectural History
Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Matter
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS
Pamela Karimi, Nasser Rabbat
This dossier of original essays examines the demolition of monuments in the Middle East from the Napoléonic era to the present. The authors describe the impact of obliterating architecture on our psyches, cultures, philosophies, and historiographies. Tracing the mediatiz...
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: Project Description
Pamela Karimi, Nasser Rabbat
The Demise and Afterlife of Artifacts
(Peer-reviewed)Pamela Karimi, Nasser Rabbat
Exhibition and Erasure/Art and Politics
(Peer-reviewed)Annabel Wharton
Memento Mauri: The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba
(Peer-reviewed)Michele Lamprakos
DNA Damage: Violence Against Buildings
(Peer-reviewed)Sussan Babaie
Iconoclasm beyond Negation: Globalization and Image Production in Mosul
(Peer-reviewed)Thomas Stubblefield
Artfare: Aesthetic Profiling from Napoléon to Neoliberalism
Kirsten Scheid
The Thing We Love(d): Little Girls, Inanimate Objects, and the Violence of a System
(Peer-reviewed)Talinn Grigor
Modernity as Perpetual War or Perpetual Peace?
(Peer-reviewed)Esra Akcan
Appendix: A Selection of News Articles on the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East
Pamela Karimi
Toxics
Meredith TenHoor, Jessica Varner
What does the history of toxics reveal about the history of architecture, and what can the history of architecture contribute to histories of toxics? By narrating histories of materials that so often evade our consciousness, governance, and control, we can understand the ...
Mattering Toxics and Making Toxics Matter in Architecture and Landscape Histories
(Peer-reviewed)Meredith TenHoor, Jessica Varner