Abstract: In the interest of capturing a broad range of topics across a wide geographical area―and which we cannot always do sufficient justice to through journal issues formed mainly around specific themes―we are publishing ABE 19 as an all-Varia or “open” issue. This is a natural extension of the open-access principle of the ABE Journal as such. Read more... Editorial [Texte intégral] Tania Sengupta Éditorial Articles Articles A hospital typology translated: Transnational flows of architectural expertise in the Clinique Reine Elisabeth of Coquilhatville, in the Belgian Congo [Texte intégral] Simon De Nys-Ketels Traduction d'un modèle architectural d’hôpital et flux d’expertise transnationaux : la clinique Reine Elisabeth de Coquilhatville au Congo belge A Jesuit-Lyonnais Project in Nineteenth-Century Beirut: Multiplicities of the Local and Global at the Université Saint-Joseph [Texte intégral] Yasmina El Chami Le projet des Jésuites Lyonnais pour Beyrouth, ou les multiples incarnations du local et du global à l’université Saint-Joseph Integrate, Adapt, Collaborate: Comecon Architecture in Socialist Mongolia [Texte intégral] Nikolay Erofeev et Łukasz Stanek Intégrer, adapter, collaborer : l’architecture du Comecon dans la Mongolie socialiste From China to Chinatown: Poy Gum Lee and the Politics of Self-Representation, 1945-1960 [Texte intégral] Kerri Culhane De la Chine à Chinatown : Poy Gum Lee et la politique de l’auto-représentation, 1945-1960 Tropical Comforts in Vietnam [Texte intégral] Andrew Cruse Confort tropical au Vietnam Documents/Sources A “complicated political-ideological situation:” Transfering a cement plant from Dessau/GDR to Nuevitas/Cuba [Texte intégral] Juliane Richter Une “situation politique et idéologique compliquée” : transplantation d'une cimenterie de Dessau (RDA) à Nuevitas (Cuba) Dissertation abstracts Positions de thèses Architect, Engineer or Builder? A history of professional demarcation through practice and discourse, Pune (India) 1930-1992 [Texte intégral] Sarah Melsens Places of Empire. The Making of an Imperial Environment in Western Europe, 1860-1960 [Texte intégral] Miel Groten Reviews Recensions Michael Falser, Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage [Texte intégral] William Carruthers Harald Bodenschatz and Max Welch Guerra (eds.), Städtebau unter Salazar. Diktatorische Modernisierung des ... PubDate: 2021-12-16
Abstract: When we put out our call for papers on Entanglements of Architecture and Comfort beyond the Temperate Zone at the end of 2018, we were not expecting such a response as to require a double issue. Yet clearly this is an issue that a wide range of scholars are working on at the moment. Many of the papers look at how seemingly peripheral visions of comfort from the Global South were not so peripheral at all, investigating the power dynamics and changing cultural expectations around being at ease in an environment. In addition, we note the current interest in Australia into how Architecture and Comfort have been historically entangled and the importance of scholarship in history of medicine for current research. Dossier: Entanglements of Architecture and Comfort beyond the Temperate Zone - 2 Dossier : architecture et confort au-delà de la zone tempérée - 2 Sous la direction de Daniel J. Ryan et Jiat-Hwee Chang Editorial: Historicizing Entanglements of Architecture and Comfort beyond the Temperate Zone - part 2 [Texte intégral] Daniel J. Ryan et Jiat-Hwee Chang Éditorial : faire l'histoire des liens entre architecture et confort au-delà de la zone tempérée - partie 2 London’s uncertain comforts: Fuegian travelers and the indeterminate geography of climate and health [Texte intégral] William M. Taylor Voyageurs fuéguiens à Londres : entre confort incertain et géographie indéterminée de la santé et du climat Comfort in Australia’s unproductive North and the attendant anxiety of tropical cyclones [Texte intégral] Deborah van der Plaat Un confort sous la menace des cyclones tropicaux dans le nord réputé improductif de l'Australie Negotiating Comfort in the Metropolis: Peter Cook, Toyō Itō, and the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition, 1977 and 1988 [Texte intégral] Cathelijne Nuijsink En quête de confort dans la métropole : Peter Cook, Toyo Ito et le concours d’architecture résidentielle de Shinkenchiku (1977 et 1988) Thermal Nationalism: the Climate and House Design Program in Australia (1944-1960) [Texte intégral] Daniel J. Ryan Le nationalisme thermique du programme Climat et Habitat en Australie (1944-1960) Varia Varia Miniaturizing monuments: Conrad Schick and his architectural models of the holy sites of Jerusalem [Texte intégral] Nikolaos Magouliotis Miniaturiser les monuments : Conrad Schick, maquettiste des lieux saints de Jérusalem Debate Débat Decolonizing the Foundation of Tropical Architecture [Texte intégral] Warwick Anderson Décoloniser les fondamentaux de l'architecture tropicale Documents/Sources Documents/Sources A Silent Graph. Tracing the Algerian Past of French Solar Experiments [Texte intégral] Paul Bouet Tracé muet : le passé algérien du solaire français et ses expérimentations Dissertation abstracts Positions de thèse
Abstract: This thematic section of ABE Journal explores the wide-ranging socio-environmental implications of comfort for architectural history. The contributions over this and the next issue complicate and expand upon our understanding of comfort. Each essay unpacks how comfort was situated and assembled in the built environment of different temporalities and geographies, beyond the taken-for-granted immediacy of the present and the discursive familiarity of temperate European and North American contexts. Drawing from the cognate fields of scholarship in, among others, Science and Technology Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Sociology of Practice, the contributions show how, during the past two centuries, comfort and the built environment were historically entangled with (settler) colonialism and decolonization, and the various (dis)enchantments of modernities and modernization in Asia, Australia, Latin America, and West Africa. By understanding comfort in relation to these cross-cultural and cross-climatic encounters, these contributions have far-reaching implications for comprehending our shifting and situated relationships with not just built environmental transformations but also planetary climate change. Dossier: Entanglements of Architecture and Comfort beyond the Temperate Zone - 1 Dossier : architecture et confort au-delà de la zone tempérée - 1 Sous la direction de Jiat-Hwee Chang et Daniel J. Ryan Editorial: Historicizing Entanglements of Architecture and Comfort beyond the Temperate Zone – part 1 [Texte intégral] Jiat-Hwee Chang et Daniel J. Ryan Éditorial : faire l'histoire des liens entre architecture et confort au-delà de la zone tempérée – partie 1 Shifting priorities of shade and northern Australian architecture: Colonial settlement prior to the 1920s [Texte intégral] Cathy Keys Changement d’orientation : l’ombre dans l’architecture du nord de l’Australie et les implantations coloniales avant 1920 Aesthetics of Comfort: A Third Moment in Costa Rican Histories of Tropical Architecture [Texte intégral] Natalia Solano-Meza L'esthétique du confort : troisième ère de l'architecture tropicale au Costa Rica Imperial Atmospheres: Race and Climate Control on the Niger [Texte intégral] Dustin Valen Atmosphères impériales : race et climatisation sur le fleuve Niger Urban Climate Indoors: Rethinking Heating Infrastructure in China's Non-Heating Zone [Texte intégral] Sascha Roesler et Madlen Kobi Intérieurs urbains : repenser les infrastructures de chauffage dans la zone non chauffée de la Chine Varia Varia Mapoon Mission Station and the Privatization of Public Violence: [Texte intégral] Jasper Ludewig La mission Mapoon et la privatisation de la force publique : une architecture missionnaire transnationale aux frontières coloniales du Queensland à la fin du XIXe siècle Debate Débat Comfort, Violence, Care: Decolonising Tropical Architecture at Blida, 1956 [Texte intégral] Hannah le Roux Confort, viol... PubDate: 2020-09-02
Abstract: “On Margins: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration,” builds on the following two premises: that the dynamic of a situated and re-situated perspective is foundational to feminist histories of architecture, and that feminist historiographical approaches destabilize presumptions of fixity that have propelled the writing of architectural histories. Through histories of architectures that emerged from individual or collective acts and experiences of migration, the texts in this collection investigate migration and confinement as drivers for modern architecture and its histories, focusing on works by professionally qualified women architects as well as uncredited makers of the built environment. These architectures of migration bring into view margins—whether architectural, structural, cultural, (geo)political, environmental, or economic. This themed section, as one intervention in the broader “Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration” collection sited on three open-access platforms—namely the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Aggregate as well as ABE—posits expanded historiographies that emerge from intersections of architecture, migration, and margins. These offer possibilities to restore absences and silences in the historical record and open onto new theorizations and perspectives situated around the world. Note from the ABE editorial team [Texte intégral] Johan Lagae, Ricardo Agarez et Tania Sengupta Le mot des éditeurs Dossier : Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration Dossier : histoires féministes d'architecture et de migration On Margins: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration [Texte intégral] Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi et Rachel Lee “Dear Comrade,” or Exile in a Communist World: Resistance, Feminism, and Urbanism in Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Work in China (1934-1956) [Texte intégral] Sophie Hochhäusl On Contradictions: The Architecture of Women’s Resistance and Emancipation in Early twentieth-Century Iran [Texte intégral] Armaghan Ziaee Varia The Architectural Production of India’s Everyday Modernism: Middle-class Housing in Pune, (1960-1980) [Texte intégral] Sarah Melsens, Inge Bertels et Amit Srivastava “Not the usual way?” On the involvement of an East German couple with the planning of the Ethiopian capital [Texte intégral] Monika Motylinska et Phuong Phan Debate Débat Response to Murray Fraser [Texte intégral] Kathleen James-Chakraborty En réponse à Murray Fraser Documents/Sources Documents/Sources Le fonds d’archives Georgette Cottin-Euziol : archive de toute une vie [Texte intégral] Assia Samaï-Bouadjadja Dissertation abstracts Positions de thèse Penser le patrimoine guadeloupéen du... PubDate: 2019-12-31
Abstract: This thematic section of ABE Journal considers the contribution of Scotland and “Scottishness” to the built environment in the wider British empire from the late eighteenth through to the early twentieth century. It focuses in particular on how a better understanding of Scottish diasporic networks (familial, professional, entrepreneurial, religious, educational etc.), and their material presences through cultures of architecture and building, complicates how we interpret or indeed label such architecture as “British”. The underlying contention is that while the terms “Britain” and “British” have their uses, they are often employed in rather crude if not confounded ways with respect to the built environment, thus failing to acknowledge its many complexities and contradictions. These concerns are set here in the context of recent developments in cognate fields of scholarship, including Four Nations and New British history, which have made significant strides in disaggregating and problematizing the idea of Britishness in relation to empire over the past two decades. Scottish agency emerges in these papers as both an identifiable and influential factor in the construction of the colonial built environment. Dossier : Building the Scottish Diaspora Scots and the Colonial Built Environment Dossier : la diaspora écossaise et la construction de l'espace colonial Editorial [Texte intégral] G. A. Bremner, Harriet Edquist et Stuart King Éditorial An English Country House in Calcutta: mapping networks between Government House, the statesman John Adam, and the architect Robert Adam [Texte intégral] Sydney Ayers Une maison de campagne à l'anglaise à Calcutta : les connexions entre le palais du Gouvernement, l’homme d’État John Adam et l’architecte Robert Adam Thomas Learmonth and Sons: Family capitalism, Scottish identity and the architecture of Victorian pastoralism [Texte intégral] Harriet Edquist Thomas Learmonth et Fils : capitalisme familial, identité écossaise et architecture pour l’élevage dans l’État de Victoria Scottish Networks and their Buildings in Van Diemen’s Land and Tasmania [Texte intégral] Stuart King Les réseaux écossais et leur activité de construction sur la terre de Van Diemen et en Tasmanie Building Jerusalem at Botany Bay: James Barnet (1827-1904) and John Grant (1857-1928) [Texte intégral] Mark Stiles Faire de Botany Bay une nouvelle Jérusalem : James Barnet (1827-1904) et John Grant (1857-1928) From Scotland to India: the Sources of James Fergusson’s Theory of Architecture’s “True Styles” [Texte intégral] Peter Kohane De l’Écosse à l’Inde : aux sources de la théorie des « True Styles » chez James Fergusson Scottish architects, imperial identities and India’s built environment in the early twentieth century: the careers of John Begg and George Wittet [Texte intégral] Sarah Longair Architectes écossais, identités impériales et environnement bâti en Inde au début du xxe siècle : les carrières de John Begg et de George Wittet Varia Varia Re... PubDate: 2019-07-28
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In the interest of capturing a broad range of topics across a wide geographical area―and which we cannot always do sufficient justice to through journal issues formed mainly around specific themes―we are publishing ABE 19 as an all-Varia or “open” issue. This is a natural extension of the open-access principle of the ABE Journal as such. Read more... 
This thematic section of ABE Journal explores the wide-ranging socio-environmental implications of comfort for architectural history. The contributions over this and the next issue complicate and expand upon our understanding of comfort. Each essay unpacks how comfort was situated and assembled in the built environment of different temporalities and geographies, beyond the taken-for-granted immediacy of the present and the discursive familiarity of temperate European and North American contexts. Drawing from the cognate fields of scholarship in, among others, Science and Technology Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Sociology of Practice, the contributions show how, during the past two centuries, comfort and the built environment were historically entangled with (settler) colonialism and decolonization, and the various (dis)enchantments of modernities and modernization in Asia, Australia, Latin America, and West Africa. By understanding comfort in relation to these cross-cultural and cross-climatic encounters, these contributions have far-reaching implications for comprehending our shifting and situated relationships with not just built environmental transformations but also planetary climate change. 
“On Margins: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration,” builds on the following two premises: that the dynamic of a situated and re-situated perspective is foundational to feminist histories of architecture, and that feminist historiographical approaches destabilize presumptions of fixity that have propelled the writing of architectural histories. Through histories of architectures that emerged from individual or collective acts and experiences of migration, the texts in this collection investigate migration and confinement as drivers for modern architecture and its histories, focusing on works by professionally qualified women architects as well as uncredited makers of the built environment. These architectures of migration bring into view margins—whether architectural, structural, cultural, (geo)political, environmental, or economic. This themed section, as one intervention in the broader “Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration” collection sited on three open-access platforms—namely the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Aggregate as well as ABE—posits expanded historiographies that emerge from intersections of architecture, migration, and margins. These offer possibilities to restore absences and silences in the historical record and open onto new theorizations and perspectives situated around the world. 
This thematic section of ABE Journal considers the contribution of Scotland and “Scottishness” to the built environment in the wider British empire from the late eighteenth through to the early twentieth century. It focuses in particular on how a better understanding of Scottish diasporic networks (familial, professional, entrepreneurial, religious, educational etc.), and their material presences through cultures of architecture and building, complicates how we interpret or indeed label such architecture as “British”. The underlying contention is that while the terms “Britain” and “British” have their uses, they are often employed in rather crude if not confounded ways with respect to the built environment, thus failing to acknowledge its many complexities and contradictions. These concerns are set here in the context of recent developments in cognate fields of scholarship, including Four Nations and New British history, which have made significant strides in disaggregating and problematizing the idea of Britishness in relation to empire over the past two decades. Scottish agency emerges in these papers as both an identifiable and influential factor in the construction of the colonial built environment. 
