The history of the discovery of the material remains of classical antiquity in the Ottoman world has been written mostly from the perspective of Western antiquarians. What the locals made of these ruins (as well as of the people that travelled from far to see them) survives mostly as marginal anecdotes and pictorial staffage in Western accounts, often treated as insignificant incidents or evidence of indifference or superstition. This special collection draws inspiration from recent approaches in the history of archaeology that see such local responses to and uses of the antiquities as a form of Indigenous archaeology. Linking such phenomena to the history of architecture, the contributions to this collection argue that the architectural results of local practices like mythological interpretation, veneration, spoliation, and imitation of the ruins ought to be understood as a form of vernacular classicism. Modern interpretation and reception of these antiquities, the authors suggest, was not the exclusive privilege of Western elites and thus the history of architecture ought to acknowledge multiple classicisms.
Editors: Nikolaos Magouliotis (Guest Editor)
Research Article
Ottoman Excavation and Architectural Reuse in Greece: The Case of Ancient Pella and Its Environs
Elizabeth Key Fowden and Elias Kolovos
Indigenous Archaeologies, Vernacular Classicisms
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Editorial: Classicism in the Plural
Nikolaos Magouliotis
Indigenous Archaeologies, Vernacular Classicisms
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Indigenous Archaeologies, Vernacular Classicisms
The Two Mediterraneans that Live Apart, Together: Making Architectures and Writing Histories
Women’s display. Women’s exhibitions and exhibition design in the 20th century
Building Civic Identities. Communal Palaces in Italian Urban History (14th-17th Centuries)
Intersecting Practices: Architecture and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe - Italy and the Netherlands
The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Postmodernism
Architects as Global Entrepreneurs (1850-2000)
From Ration Cards to Refugee Camps: Architecture, Bureaucracy, and the Global State of Emergency during World War One
Comprador Networks and Comparative Modernities
Architectural Historiography and Fourth Wave Feminism
Marxism and Architectural Theory across the East-West Divide
Resilience in Architectural History
On Style
On the meaning of 'Europe' for Architectural History
Travel
Building Word Image: Printing Architecture 1800-1950
Objects of Belief: Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture
Culture of Crisis