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.
Jessica Harris
2016-06-13 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 7
Also a part of:
Douglas M. Klahr
2016-06-13 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 8
Also a part of:
Stylianos Giamarelos
2016-07-08 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 11
Also a part of:
Chen-Yu Chiu
2016-07-29 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 12
Also a part of:
Laura Martínez de Guereñu
2016-10-26 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 15
Also a part of:
Christine Beese
2016-10-27 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 16
Also a part of:
Ümit Fırat Açıkgöz
2016-11-16 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 18
Also a part of:
Kristin Marie Barry
2017-01-19 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2017 • Volume 5 • 3
Also a part of:
Georgia Daskalaki
2017-07-25 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2017 • Volume 5 • 8
Also a part of:
Melita Čavlović
2018-02-15 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2018 • Volume 6 • 1
Also a part of:
Davide Deriu, Edoardo Piccoli and Belgin Turan Özkaya
2016-11-23 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2016 • Volume 4 • 19
Also a part of: