Issue Editors: Davide Deriu, Belgin Turan Ozkaya, and Edoardo Piccoli
This Special Collection explores how travel, as a collective and individual practice, has been implicated in diverse architectural cultures across a wide range of periods and geographies. It offers new perspectives on the architect’s journey, examines representations of places by travellers, and considers the place of architecture within modern tourist itineraries and practices.
Travel is a powerful force in shaping the perception of the modern world and plays an ever-growing role within architectural and urban cultures. Inextricably linked to political and ideological issues, travel redefines places and landscapes through new transport infrastructures and buildings. Architecture, in turn, is reconstructed through visual and textual narratives produced by scores of modern travellers – including writers and artists along with architects themselves. In the age of the camera, travel is bound up with new kinds of imaginaries; private records and recollections often mingle with official, stereotyped views, as the value of architectural heritage increasingly rests on the mechanical reproduction of its images. Whilst students often learn about architectural history through image collections, the place of the journey in the formation of the architect itself shifts. No longer a lone and passionate antiquarian or an itinerant designer, the modern architect eagerly hops on buses, trains and planes in pursuit of personal as well as professional interests. Increasingly built on a presumption of mobility, architectural culture integrates travel into cultural debates and design experiments. By addressing such issues from a variety of perspectives, this collection prompts us to rethink the mobile conditions in which architecture has historically been produced and received.
Research Article
On the Buses: Mobile Architecture in Australia and the UK, 1973-75
Jessica Harris
2016-06-13 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 7
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Traveling via Rome through the Stereoscope: Reality, Memory, and Virtual Travel
Douglas M. Klahr
2016-06-13 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 8
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Intersecting Itineraries Beyond the Strada Novissima: The Converging Authorship of Critical Regionalism
Stylianos Giamarelos
2016-07-08 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 11
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China Receives Utzon: The Role of Jørn Utzon’s 1958 Study Trip to China in His Architectural Maturity
Chen-Yu Chiu
2016-07-29 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 12
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Bauhäusler on the Franco-Spanish Border
Laura Martínez de Guereñu
2016-10-26 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 15
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Grand Tour in Reverse: Marcello Piacentini’s Tour of Germany in 1930 and 1931
Christine Beese
2016-10-27 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 16
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À La Recherche De L’Espace Perdu: Architecture, Urban Fabric, and French Travelers to Antioch (1784–1914)
Ümit Fırat Açıkgöz
2016-11-16 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 18
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Buildings as Artifacts: Heritage, Patriotism, and the Constructed Landscape
Kristin Marie Barry
2017-01-19 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2017 • Volume 5 • 3
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‘Aphrodite’s Realm’: Representations of Tourist Landscapes in Postcolonial Cyprus as Symbols of Modernization
Georgia Daskalaki
2017-07-25 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2017 • Volume 5 • 8
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Constructing a Travel Landscape: A Case Study of the Sljeme Motels along the Adriatic Highway
Melita Čavlović
2018-02-15 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2018 • Volume 6 • 1
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Editorial
Travels in Architectural History
Davide Deriu, Edoardo Piccoli and Belgin Turan Özkaya
2016-11-23 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 19
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Collections
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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