Architectural Histories

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

Traveling via Rome through the Stereoscope: Reality, Memory, and Virtual Travel

Intersecting Itineraries Beyond the Strada Novissima: The Converging Authorship of Critical Regionalism

China Receives Utzon: The Role of Jørn Utzon’s 1958 Study Trip to China in His Architectural Maturity

Bauhäusler on the Franco-Spanish Border

Grand Tour in Reverse: Marcello Piacentini’s Tour of Germany in 1930 and 1931

À La Recherche De L’Espace Perdu: Architecture, Urban Fabric, and French Travelers to Antioch (1784–1914)

Learning Vicariously: Tourism, Orientalism and the Making of an Architectural Photography Collection of Egypt

Buildings as Artifacts: Heritage, Patriotism, and the Constructed Landscape

‘Aphrodite’s Realm’: Representations of Tourist Landscapes in Postcolonial Cyprus as Symbols of Modernization

Constructing a Travel Landscape: A Case Study of the Sljeme Motels along the Adriatic Highway

From the Grand Tour to the Grand Hotel: The Birth of the Hospitality Industry in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany between the 17th and 19th Centuries

Editorial

Travels in Architectural History

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