Contributions may include:
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Close examinations of architectural or material details (which
contradict canonical typologies, stylistic and cultural taxonomies, or
periodologies).
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Close readings of text
sources on architecture beyond canonical architectural discourse: accounting
books, minutes of trials, ownership records, correspondence, etc.
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Close readings of marginalized voices that were involved in the making
of the built environment or specific buildings, as evidenced through archival
sources, but also speculative or counterfactual history and critical fabulation
(albeit on the basis of historical evidence and context).
- Histories of dissonant
voices or of conflict within an architectural project or the life of a building
or city (particularly if they can help de-centre the voice of the architect and
the patron by bringing in those of the craftsperson, labourer, servant, etc.).
- Local, vernacular,
indigenous and non-academic accounts of specific buildings and cities,
including non-canonical archaeologies and uses of the past and its monuments
(from vernacular spolia to popular lore).
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Depictions of canonical
architecture from a lay-person’s or subaltern perspective, as well as
depictions of the subaltern, or of subaltern architecture in canonical works of
painting, literature and art in general.
- Histories of Microhistory in
architecture: how architectural writers and historians have tried to apply the
method of Microhistory to the study of the built environment – whether
successfully or not.
Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 400 words and an author’(s) bio (ca. 200 words per author), in one PDF file. Abstracts will be evaluated primarily on the basis of the suggested method and their relevance to the conference theme, but also in terms of thematic originality and exploration of previously unknown or marginalized topics or perspectives. Contributions should be the result of original research and should not be previously published or in the process of being published elsewhere.