Architectural Histories

Realities of crisis have always surrounded architecture, and in fact sustained it. Yet because of the ubiquity and persistence of crisis over the last few years, to speak of ?crisis? at this moment has become to speak of a ?culture of crisis?, with its own politics of antagonisms, local and global. The papers in this special collection historicize ?crisis? in relation to architecture, precisely to uncover the complexity of stakes in moments of crisis. Architectural Histories contemplates the social role of architecture in advancing or challenging social priorities and biases; the role of architectural education in the ups-and-downs of the construction industry; the subversive potentials of art, architecture and urbanism; and indeed the complicity or resistance of architecture in the face of historical antecedents to our own culture of crisis.

Research Article

The Trattato as Textbook: Francesco di Giorgio’s Vision for the Renaissance Architect

Crisis and Correspondence: Style in the Nineteenth Century

Climatic Crisis: Place, Taste and Race in Hardy Wilson’s 'Dawn of a New Civilization' (1929)

Iron, Engineering and Architectural History in Crisis: Following the Case of the River Dee Bridge Disaster, 1847

From Vienna to Frankfurt Inside Core-House Type 7: A History of Scarcity through the Modern Kitchen

The Boulevard Lefebvre Disaster: A Crisis in Construction

Ecclesiastical Architecture and the Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Seville Cathedral and the Church of the Sagrario.

‘Reinstalling the Old City of Goa as an Eternal Light of Portuguese Spirituality’: The Plan for the Reintegration of Old Goa at the End of the Colonial Period

Position Paper

Make/Shift/Shelter: Architecture and the Failure of Global Systems

Walls of Crisis: Street Art and Urban Fabric in Central Athens, 2000–2012

An Identity Crisis of Architectural Critique

Editorial

Culture of Crisis

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