Colloque International : « Toward a Geography of Architectural Criticism. Disciplinary Boundaries and Shared Territories » (Paris, 3-4 avril 2017)

Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Académie d’Architecture, Paris,  3 et 4 avril 2017

Mapping Architectural Criticism Third International Symposium: Architectural Criticism 20th and 21st Centuries, a Cartography (ANR-14-CE31-0019-01)

organisé par l’Université Rennes 2 (EA 1279 Histoire et critique des arts), les Archives de la Critique d’art – Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Ce colloque international s’inscrit dans le Programme ANR Mapping Architectural Criticism (2015-2017), dont l’objectif est de développer un champ de recherche sur la critique architecturale des dernières décennies du 19^e siècle à aujourd’hui. Il débattra deux questions clé, relatives aux « géographies » de la critique d’architecture : ses frontières disciplinaires et ses territoires partagés, notamment avec la critique d’autres disciplines, depuis les dernières décennies du 19^e siècle.

Le colloque interroge les frontières et les terrains communs de la critique avec différents types d’écrits sur l’architecture : il vise à mettre en évidence les relations, les terrains communs et les outils conceptuels que la critique architecturale partage avec l’histoire de l’architecture, les théories, mais également avec des écrits émanant d’autres disciplines.

Le symposium met également en lumière les relations, les terrains et les outils conceptuels que la critique architecturale partage avec d’autres « genres » de critique, comme la critique d’art ou la critique littéraire.

 

Monday, April 3, 2017: Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, salle Vasari

09:30 Registration and Welcome Address

09:45 Introduction

Session 1. Intellectual Territories: Borrowing Tools and Rhetorics from Other Disciplines

Chair: Paolo Scrivano, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

10:15 Stefania Kenley Independent Scholar, Paris Blind Spot in the Visual Field of Art-architecture Criticism

10:45 Valeria Lattante ABC, Politecnico di Milano The Concept of Tradition from T. S. Eliot Literary Critic to E. N. Rogers Architectural Theory

11:15 Coffee break

 11:30 Raúl Martínez Department of History and Theory of Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech. Geoffrey Scott’s The Architecture of Humanism at the Inception of Bruno Zevi’s Theoretical Corpus

12:00 Jasna Galjer Department of Art History, University of Zagreb Cultural Exchange as Architecture’s Expanded Field

12:30 Adrian Anagnost Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University, New Orleans Critique and Complicity: The Art Critical Lineage of Projective Architecture

 Session 2. Political and Geographical Boundaries

Chair: Giovanni Leoni, Università di Bologna

 14:30 Jianfei Zhu University of Melbourne Towards a New Criticism on Architecture of Contemporary China: The Case of He Jingtang (1938-)

15:00 Charlotte Ashby Department of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London The Archaeology of Finnish Architectural Criticism

 15:30 Christina Pech Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Criticism on Display. The Swedish Museum of Architecture and the Production of History in the mid-1970s

16:00 Discussion

 17:00 Key-note Lecture: Marco Biraghi, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, What does it mean architecture?

 

Tuesday, April 4, 2017: Académie d’Architecture, Paris

09:30 Manuelle Gautrand (Présidente de l’Académie d’Architecture): Welcome Address

Session 3. Judging Architecture: Professional, Popular or Academic Criticism?

Chair: Réjean Legault, Université du Québec à Montréal

09:45 Christina Contandriopoulos Department of Art History, Université du Québec à Montréal Against the Wall: the Birth of Architectural Criticism in Early 19th Century Paris

10:15 Michela Rosso Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino Architectural Criticism and Cultural Satire in the 1980s: Shared Territories and Languages

10:45 Coffee Break

11:00 Kristen Gagnon Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carleton University, Ottawa Popular Architecture Criticism: A Definition, a Delineation and a Débâcle

 11:30 Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg, Independent Scholar, Germany Architectural Criticism as Cultural Criticism (“Kulturkritik”) and Professional Criticism (“Fachkritik”). A Case Study on the Example of Werner Hegemann

12:00 Discussion

12:45 Lunch Break

 

Session 4. Professionalism: the Critic as a Specialist

Chair: Anne Hultzsch, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and Oslo School of Architecture and Design

14:15 Laurens Bulckaen and Rika Devos, BATir Department, École polytechnique de Bruxelles Louis Cloquet (1849-1920): architectural writings of a critical engineer

14:45 Irene Lund Faculty of Architecture, Université Libre de Bruxelles – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven The multiple origins of modernist architecture criticism in the Belgian avant-garde magazine 7Arts (1922-1927)

15:15 Patrizia Bonifazio Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano “Zodiac” (1957-1973). Art and technique to define architecture in front of the mass production

15:45 Lorenzo Ciccarelli Department of Architecture, University of Florence Giovanni Klaus Koenig (1924-1989): Architectural Criticism between Semiology, Industrial Design and Rail Trains

16:30 Roundtable Valéry Didelon (École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais), Réjean Legault (UQAM), Stanislaus von Moos (University of Zurich), Paolo Scrivano (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)

 

Conference Venues

Monday, April 3, 2017: Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, salle Vasari, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002, Paris

Tuesday, April 4, 2017: Académie d’Architecture, 9 place des Vosges, 75004, Paris

 

Mapping.Crit.Arch: Architectural Criticism 20th and 21st Centuries, a Cartography

Research Project, Université Rennes 2, EA 1279 Histoire et Critique des Arts – Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Scientific Coordinator Hélène Jannière

 

Scientific Committee

Nathalie Boulouch (Université Rennes 2 and Archives de la critique d’art),

Anne Hultzsch (Bartlett School London, UCL and Oslo School of Architecture and Design)

Hélène Jannière (Université Rennes 2)

Réjean Legault (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Giovanni Leoni (Università di Bologna)

Paolo Scrivano (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)

Laurent Stalder (ETH Zurich, gTA)

Suzanne Stephens (Barnard College, Columbia University)

Alice Thomine-Berrada (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)

 

Organizing Committee

Alessandro Benetti

Elsa Besson

Nicolas Bisensang

Guillemette Chéneau-Deysine

Hélène Jannière

EA 1279 Histoire et critique des arts

 

Contact: mappingcritarch@gmail.com, helene.janniere@univ-rennes2.fr

Website http://mac.hypotheses.org/