CONTENTS PROGRAMME AND ABSTRACTS 2 Committees 3 Preface EUROPEAN 4 Practical Information and Maps ARCHITECTURAL 8 Programme HISTORY NETWORK ABSTRACTS WEDNESDAY 30 Interest Group Meetings Fifth 34 Opening Keynote International THURSDAY 38 First Paper Session Meeting 66 Second Paper Session FRIDAY 96 Third Paper Session 13–16 June 2018 122 Keynote 124 Fourth Paper Session Tallinn SATURDAY 152 Fifth Paper Session 181 Closing Keynote 184 Lunch Tours 192 Post-Conference Tours 195 Satellite and Lunch Events 198 Conference Venues 207 Index of Speakers Contact and Credits 1 EAHN 2018 PREFACE International Scientific Committee Welcome to the fifth international meeting of witness to the recent turbulent history of the European Architectural History Network in the country. Designed by architect Raine Howayda Al-Harithy, American University of Tallinn! After biennial meetings in Guimarães, Karp in the late Soviet period (1984), it Beirut Brussels, Turin, and Dublin, this will be the first was completed in 1992 when Estonia had Ljiljana Blagojević, Independent Scholar, EAHN conference in northeastern Europe, already regained independence. Receptions Belgrade demonstrating the organization’s continuing for EAHN conference participants will Mark Crinson, University of London aspiration to enlarge its geographical reach introduce other significant public buildings Hilde Heynen, Catholic University Leuven and critically address the centre-periphery in Tallinn, including the KUMU Art Museum, Stephan Hoppe, Ludwig-Maximilians- relations inside Europe. built after a winning entry in an international Universität München Founded in 2005, EAHN operates across architecture competition in 1994 (architect Merlijn Hurx, Utrecht University national boundaries and is open to scholars Pekka Vapaavuori; the building was completed Kathleen James-Chakraborty, University from all countries. It aims to promote in 2006) and the current premises of the College Dublin architectural research and education through Estonian Academy of Sciences, a former Andres Kurg, Estonian Academy of Arts public forums, conferences and through its noblemen dwelling on the Toompea hill Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Yale University open access research journal Architectural (architect Martin Gropius; built in 1865). Nuno Senos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Histories. The biennially organized international The local organizer of the conference is meeting is the organization’s largest the Estonian Academy of Arts, the only gathering, where session proposals that public university in Estonia providing higher Local Organizing Committee cover different periods in the history of education in fine arts, design, and architecture. architecture and different approaches to the Its Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Daria Bocharnikova, KU Leuven / Bozar, built environment can be submitted through teaches degree programs in art history Brussels an open call. Following a selection by on all three academic levels and is the largest Liina Jänes, Estonian Ministry of Culture an international scientific committee, the center for art and architecture history Mart Kalm, Estonian Academy of Arts sessions and round tables will then search research in the country. Andres Kurg, Estonian Academy of Arts for papers through a subsequent open call. This year, Estonia is celebrating the Epp Lankots, Estonian Academy of Arts This year’s conference will feature centenary of its first independence in 1918. It Aino Niskanen, Aalto University, Helsinki twenty-eight sessions, ranging from panels will bring activities and exhibitions devoted to Triin Ojari, Museum of Estonian Architecture on reinterpreting the rediscovery of antiquity the country’s history and to the celebration Kadi Polli, University of Tartu / KUMU Art in Renaissance to critical retakes on the UN of independence to Tallinn and other event Museum Development programmes and a round table spaces. We hope that the EAHN conference, Epi Tohvri, Tallinn Technical University that asks a question about the usefulness of with its large number of high-level speakers, the term ‘Eastern Europe’. The paper sessions will contribute to this anniversary spirit are organized in five parallel thematic tracks with critical discussions and debates of EAHN Board on all three days, with 193 presenters and global scale and promote transnational and session chairs all together. Three keynote transcultural approaches and understanding Until June 2018 presentations include Christine Stevenson’s of the built environment. President: Hilde Heynen, Belgium opening talk ‘Buildings in Bits: Lessons We thank the European Regional Vice-President: Mark Crinson, UK from the English Baroque’, Krista Kodres’s Development Fund, the Estonian Cultural Treasurer: José Angel Medina Murua, Spain presentation ‘The House of a Tallinn/Reval Endowment, the City of Tallinn, the Museum Secretary: Cana Bilsel, Turkey Wealthy Burgher in the Early Modern Period’, of Estonian Architecture and the Estonian and Reinhold Martin’s concluding keynote, Academy of Sciences for supporting this From June 2018 summing up the papers and discussions of conference. President: Mark Crinson, UK the conference. Vice-President: Jorge Correia, Portugal During lunch hours on all three days, Andres Kurg Treasurer: José Angel Medina Murua, Spain participants can choose from a range of Conference Chair Secretary: Cana Bilsel, Turkey walking and bus tours to the medieval, modern, and contemporary landmarks of Tallinn. The post-conference tours offered on Sunday (17 June) include a half-day tour to Soviet-era collective farm (kolkhoz) sites and a full-day visit to the coastal city of Pärnu with a focus on its twentieth-century architecture, including the interwar and Soviet periods. The conference will take place in the National Library of Estonia, a building bearing 2 3 4 PRACTICAL INFORMATION PRACTICAL NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ESTONIA Endla street Endla Elevators 8 6 7 4 5 9 1 10 3 Cloak- WC room WC WC 2 Main Entrance 11 Tõnismägi street 16 June 8:30–16:00 15 June 8:30–18:00 14 June 8:00–18:30 13 June13:00–17:30 in theNationalLibrary (Tõnismägi 2): isopen desk andinformation The registration Registration Conference cafeteria entrance. cafeteria outsidethe from lunch packed cancollect you andSaturday OnFriday Halls. 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Show your conference name tag to the National Library of Estonia ticket inspector when asked. See routes and Tõnismägi 2 timetables here: Interest group meetings and all paper transport.tallinn.ee/#tallinna-linn/en sessions on all days, keynotes on Friday and Saturday WHERE TO EAT 2 Conference Opening Von Krahl Bar Wednesday, 13 June Rataskaevu 17 Kumu Art Museum Offers 10% discount of the menu with Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1 EAHN name tag. Conference opening, keynote presentation and opening reception Telliskivi area Telliskivi street 60a 3 Old factory complex on the borders of the Reception Old Town and Pelgulinna and Kalamaja Thursday, 14 June districts with popular restaurants, stores and Museum of Estonian Architecture studios. Ahtri 2 Reception and Architectural Histories Award Rotermann Quarter presentation Rotermanni / Roseni streets 20th century industrial buildings mixed 4 with contemporary architecture. Rotermanni Gala Dinner quarter is a home for several shops, Friday, 15 June restaurants and offices. House of the Brotherhood of the Blackheads (Mustpeade maja) 3 Pikk 26 Tallinn Tourist Information Centre Niguliste 2 5 +372 645 7777 After-Party 5 Friday, 15 June Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) Tourist information Põhja puiestee 35 www.visitestonia.com www.visittallinn.ee