1111 2 Rethinking Architectural 3 Historiography 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 4 5222 Rather than subscribing to a single position, this collection informs the reader about 6 the current state of the discipline looking at changes across the broad field of 7 methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality. Divided into three sections, 8 Rethinking Architectural Historiography begins by renegotiating foundational and 9 contemporary boundaries of architectural history in relation to other cognate fields. It then goes on to engage critically with past and present histories, disclosing assump- 20111 tions, biases and absences in architectural historiography. It concludes by exploring 1 the possibilities provided by new perspectives, and reframing the discipline in the 2 light of new parameters and problematics. 3 Featuring distinctive contributions from authors with a range of expertise on the 4 writing, teaching and practice of architectural history, this timely and internation- 5 ally relevant title reflects upon the current changes in historiographical practice. This 6 book explores potential openings that may contribute to further transformation of 7 the discipline and theories of architectural historiography, and addresses the current 8 question of the disciplinary particularity of architectural history. 9 30111 Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History and Director at the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, University of Southampton, UK. 1 2 Elvan Altan Ergut is Assistant Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of 3 Architecture at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. 4 5 Belgin Turan Özkaya is Associate Professor of Architectural History in the 6 Department of Architecture at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. 7 8 9 40111 1 2 3 4 45111 1111 2 3 Rethinking Architectural 4 5 6 Historiography 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 4 5222 Edited by 6 7 Dana Arnold, 8 9 Elvan Altan Ergut 20111 1 and 2 Belgin Turan Özkaya 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40111 1 2 3 4 45111 First published 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2006 selection and editorial matter: Dana Arnold, Elvan Altan Ergut and Belgin Turan Özkaya; individual chapters: the contributors This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Rethinking architectural historiography/edited by Dana Arnold, Elvan Altan Ergut & Belgin Turan Özkaya.– 1st ed. p. cm. 1. Architecture – Historiography. I. Arnold, Dana. II. Altan Ergut, Elvan. III. Turan Özkaya, Belgin. NA190.R48 2006 720.9–dc22 2006001550 ISBN10: 0–415–36082–X (hbk) ISBN10: 0–415–36085–4 (pbk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–36082–1 (hbk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–36085–2 (pbk) 1111 2 3 4 5 6 Contents 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 4 5222 List of figures vii 6 Notes on contributors ix 7 8 Preface xv 9 DANA ARNOLD 20111 1 2 Introduction: mapping architectural historiography 1 · 3 ELVAN ALTAN ERGUT AND BELGIN TURAN ÖZKAYA 4 5 6 PART I 7 Boundaries 15 8 9 1 Art history and architectural history 17 30111 ERIC C. FERNIE 1 2 Buildings archaeology: context and points of convergence 24 2 ROGER H. LEECH 3 4 3 Architecture as evidence 36 5 ANDREW BALLANTYNE 6 7 4 Program and programs 50 8 CHRISTIAN F. OTTO 9 5 Hercules at the roundabout: multidisciplinary choice 40111 in the history of architecture 60 · 1 FIKRET YEGÜL 2 3 6 Frontiers of fear: architectural history, the anchor 4 and the sail 74 45111 SUNA GÜVEN vi Contents PART II Critical engagements 83 7 Questions of Ottoman identity and architectural history 85 TÜLAY ARTAN 8 In Ordinary Time: considerations on a video installation by Iñigo Manglano Ovalle and the New National Gallery in Berlin by Mies van der Rohe 110 EDWARD DIMENDBERG 9 Reopening the question of document in architectural historiography: reading (writing) Filarete’s treatise on architecture for (in) Piero de’ Medici’s study 121 · · · · SEVIL ENGINSOY EKINCI 10 From architectural history to spatial writing 135 JANE RENDELL 11 Presenting Ankara: popular conceptions of architecture and history 151 ELVAN ALTAN ERGUT PART III Reframings 169 12 Space, time, and architectural history 171 NANCY STIEBER 13 Visuality and architectural history 183 · BELGIN TURAN ÖZKAYA 14 The digital disciplinary divide: reactions to historical virtual reality models 200 DIANE FAVRO 15 The afterlife of buildings: architecture and Walter Benjamin’s theory of history 215 PATRICIA A. MORTON 16 Beyond a boundary: towards an architectural history of the non-east 229 DANA ARNOLD Index 246 1111 2 3 4 5 6 Figures 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 4 5222 1.1 Speyer Cathedral from the south-east 18 6 2.1 Trinity Area of Frome; plans of houses in Castle Street 27 7 2.2 The redevelopment of St Bartholomew’s Fair, London, 8 c.1598–c.1616 29 9 2.3 The St Michael’s Hill precinct of Bristol University 30 20111 2.4 Alleynedale House, Barbados 32 1 5.1 Luis Barragan: San Cristobal Stables and Egerstom House, 2 Mexico City, 1968 68 3 5.2 Carlo Scarpa: main door of the Banca Popolare di Verona, 4 Verona, 1973 68 5 5.3 Sedad Hakkı Eldem: S¸ark Kahvesi (Oriental Café), · 6 Istanbul, 1948 69 7 5.4 Fikret Yegül: Country House, Gölcük-Ödemis¸, Turkey, 8 1999 69 9 6.1 Figure from Book 5, Vitruvius, Rusconi edition, Venice, 30111 1590 80 1 8.1 Iñigo Manglano Ovalle: In Ordinary Time, 2001 115 2 8.2 Iñigo Manglano Ovalle: In Ordinary Time, 2001 115 3 11.1a Anıtkabir, Mausoleum of Atatürk in Ankara; Emin Onat 4 and Orhan Arda, 1942 152 5 11.1b Model of Anıtkabir in Miniaturk, I˙stanbul 153 6 11.2 Photographs of Ankara in 1923 and 1933 156 7 11.3 Postcard showing Hisar, the citadel of Ankara 158 8 11.4 Postcard showing Atakule, the tower and shopping mall 9 in Ankara; Ragıp Buluç, 1986 162 40111 13.1 Aldo Rossi: detail from the Teatro Domestico for the exhibition 1 Il Progetto Domestico at the Milan Triennial, 1986 191 2 13.2 Mario Sironi: Paesaggio urbano 193 3 13.3 Aldo Rossi: Città con Architetture e Monumenti, 1972 195 4 13.4 Aldo Rossi: Senza titolo su un’antica carta francese, 45111 printed in 1989 196 viii Figures 14.1 Recreated Arch of Septimius Severus 203 14.2 Colosseum with coded circulation paths 204 14.3 Sequential views flying down into Roman Forum Model 205 14.4 Lightscape analysis of Curia (Senate House) model, Rome 209 15.1 Galerie Vivienne, Paris, 1823, interior view 219 15.2 Passage de Choiseul, Paris, 1824, exterior view 221 1111 2 3 4 5 6 Contributors 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 4 5222 Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History and Director of the Centre 6 for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Southampton, 7 UK. Her recent books include: Rural Urbanism: London Landscapes in 8 the Early Nineteenth Century (2006); Art History: A Very Short Introduc- 9 tion (2004); Reading Architectural History (2002); and Representing the 20111 Metropolis (2000). She has edited several volumes, the latest of which 1 include Cultural Identities and the Aesthetics of Britishness (2004); (with 2 Andrew Ballantyne) Architecture as Experience (2004); (with Margaret 3 Iversen) Art and Thought (2003). She has held fellowships at the University 4 of Cambridge, Yale University and the Getty Research Institute, Los 5 Angeles and has been a visiting professor at various instutions in the UK, 6 US and Canada. Her forthcoming book on the hospital in London will be 7 published by Routledge. 8 Tülay Artan teaches Ottoman history at Sabancı University in I˙stanbul. Her 9 interests include a variety of topics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century 30111 Ottoman political and cultural history. Her numerous articles focus on the 1 marriages and households of Ottoman princesses, on I˙stanbul’s urban 2 and architectural history, and on eighteenth-century material culture and 3 elite consumption. She has been the co-organizer and catalogue editor 4 for several exhibitions, including ‘The Splendour of the Ottoman Sultans’ 5 (Memphis, 1993), ‘Palace of Gold and Light’ (Washington DC, 2000) 6 and ‘Mothers, Goddesses and Sultanas’ (Brussels, 2004). She is currently 7 working on a book on the eighteenth-century grandvizieral household. 8 9 Andrew Ballantyne is Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle 40111 upon Tyne, UK, where he directs architecture research in the Tectonic 1 Cultures Research Group. He studied and practised architecture before 2 taking up academic positions in research and teaching. He has worked 3 with archaeologists in the UK and Greece, and has written extensively 4 in the fields of architectural history and theory. His books include Archi- 45111 tecture, Landscape and Liberty (1997), What is Architecture? (2002), x Contributors Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (2002), Architectures (2004), Archi- tecture Theory: A Reader in Philosophy and Culture (2005) and (with Dana Arnold) Architecture as Experience (2004).