This collection explores the inextricable ties between knowledge and geopolitics, asking what is the role that the idea, legacy and institutions of Europe play within the new distributions of global power, and how it currently affects the production of architectural knowledge. Authors were asked: first, to probe the relationship between the geopolitics of disciplinary organizations and the creation and dissemination of knowledge in our field; second, to locate 'Europe'—the hitherto primary site of architectural historiography—within the shifting geographies of architectural narratives; and third, to question the position of 'Europe' in the geopolitics of academia.
Following an editorial that introduces the issues at stake, field notes present a roundtable discussion of 1) the historiography of European architectural history in the aftermath of the former Three Worlds and 2) the institutional perspective on the 'European' designation of the EAHN. Four position papers follow. The first questions the epistemological position underlying the roundtable, suggesting an alternative historiography. Thereafter, in the light of European identity, three authors present specific historical case studies in the East Bloc, Turkey, and South Africa respectively. Each of these papers challenges the assumption of a diminishing European power by invoking the ways in which the idea of Europe continues to live in people's imagination.
Guest editors: Alona Nitzan-Shiftan and Nancy StieberEditorial
Introduction: The Meaning of 'Europe' for Architectural History
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan and Nancy Stieber
2018-06-13 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2018 • Volume 6 • 10
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Field Notes
Seven Views on the Meaning of ‘Europe’
Christian Freigang, Andres Kurg, Ana Tostões, Carmen Popescu, Rob Dettingmeijer, Nancy Stieber and Christine Mengin
2018-06-13 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2018 • Volume 6 • 9
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Position Paper
‘Welcome to Europe’: A Bridge East of Architectural History
Kıvanç Kılınç
2018-06-13 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2018 • Volume 6 • 6
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The ‘Ornithologists’, the ‘Birds’, and the Meaning of the ‘Meaning of Europe’: Keynote Address to the EAHN on the Occasion of its Tenth Anniversary
Daniel Bertrand Monk
2018-06-13 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2018 • Volume 6 • 8
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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