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Special Issue On Writing Architecture

2010; Routledge; Volume: 15; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/13264826.2010.527433

1755-0475

Naomi Stead, Lee Stickells,

Architecture and Computational Design

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. The conference “Writing Architecture: A Symposium on Architectural Criticism and the Written Representation of Architecture” was held on 15 and 16 August 2009, convened by Dr Naomi Stead, a Research Fellow in the ATCH (Architecture Theory Criticism History) Research Centre in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland. The conference was supported by Brisbane's Institute for Modern Art, ArchitectureMedia, the HEAT programme in the Creative Industries Unit of the Queensland Government, and by the University of Queensland Art Museum. The conference was held in association with an Architecture Australia “roundtable” discussion entitled “Media and Architecture: Building Communities”, at the University of Queensland Art Museum on 14 August 2009. A subsequent conference was held in July 2010, from which a book will be forthcoming in 2011, published by the Institute for Modern Art. 2. Writing Design: Object, Process, Discourse, Translation. The Design History Society Annual Conference, Hosted by the tVAD Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, 3–5 September 2009; Art.Media.Design | Writing Intersections, Swinburne University Of Technology, 18–19 November 2009; Once Upon a Place: Haunted Houses and Imaginary Cities, the First International Conference on Architecture and Fiction, CIAUD/Faculty of Architecture Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 12–14 October 2010. One might add the current call for a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies on “Housing Fictions: The House in Writing and Culture 1950 to the present”, which seeks (amongst other things) to explore the “cultural architecture of the house”, guest editors are Janet Larson, Francesca Saggini and Anna Enrichetta Soccio, www.essenglish.org/cfp/journals.html#house (accessed 02 August 2010). There has also been a course entitled “Writing Architecture” and a series of workshops offered by AKAD, through Katja Grillner, at KTH Stockholm in 2006. 3. Pedro Gadanho (ed.), “Editor's Note”, Beyond, no. 1, Amsterdam: SUN, 2009, p. 4. 4. See, for example: Katja Grillner, Per Glembrandt and Sven-Olov Wallenstein (eds), 01. AKAD-Beginnings—Experimental Research in Architecture and Design, Stockholm: Axl Books, 2005; Jane Rendell, “Architecture-Writing”, in Jane Rendell (ed.), “Critical Architecture”, special issue of the Journal of Architecture, 10, 3 (June 2005): 255–264. 5. See, for example, Jane Rendell, “Site-Writing: Enigma and Embellishment”, in Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Murray Fraser and Mark Dorrian (eds), Critical Architecture, London: Routledge, 2007; and Jane Rendell, Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism, London: IB Tauris, 2010. Rendell's influence in Australia has been reinforced by her appearance as a keynote speaker, first at the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand annual conference in Brisbane in 2002, and again for the symposium “Writing Around the Kitchen Table: Critical Spatial Writing Practices”, 7 June 2010, convened by Hélène Frichot and Esther Anatolis, Melbourne. 6. The term “little magazines” was originally used to describe progressive early twentieth century literary journals. The term re- appeared in the 1960s and has been used since to denote non- commercial, independent magazines. 7. The exhibition was developed by Beatriz Colomina and a group of PhD students at Princeton University; http://www.clipstampfold.com. 8. The exhibition was developed by Mimi Zeiger. 9. The exhibition was curated by Roberto Vidal and Óscar Martín and first held at La Casa Encendida in Madrid, 29 June to 29 August 2010: http://www.lacasaencendida.es/en (accessed 14 August 2010). 10. See also: Klaske Havik, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Christoph Grafe and Tom Avermaete (eds.), OASE 81: Constructing Criticism, NAi Publishing, June 2010. 11. On the Australian critical scene, see Naomi Stead, “Criticism in/and/of Crisis: The Australian Context”, in Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Murray Fraser and Mark Dorrian (eds), Critical Architecture, London: Routledge, 2007, pp. 76–83, also Angela Bennie, Crème de la Phlegm: Unforgettable Australian Reviews, Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 2006, and in the latter part of 2010 The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne has hosted a series of public discussions under the title “Critical Failure”, with the tagline “why Australian arts criticism is failing us all”. The series looked at criticism of film, theatre, and visual arts, as well as discussing the “state of online criticism” in an “Unconference” on Sunday 19 September, Wheeler Centre, “Critical Failure”, 2010, http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/program/critical-failure/ (accessed 20 September 2010). 12. For a comprehensive overview see Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Murray Fraser and Mark Dorrian (eds), Critical Architecture, London: Routledge, 2007; also Kenneth Frampton and Hélène Jannière (eds), “Le critique en temps et lieux”, Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine, 24/25 (December 2009); Isabelle Doucet and Kenny Cupers (eds), Footprint special issue: Agency in Architecture: Reframing Critically in Theory and Practice, no. 4 (Spring 2009); a recent special issue of the Journal of Architectural Education edited by George Dodds has also focussed on the topic, George Dodds (ed.), Journal of Architectural Education special issue on architectural criticism, 62, 3 (2009). Worthwhile discussions have also taken place in the online Design Observer, including Alexandra Lange, “Why Nicolai Ourousoff Is Not Good Enough”, Design Observer 3.0, (2010), http://www. design observer.com/observatory/entry.html?entry=12 708 (accessed 10 March 2010); Nancy Levinson, ‘Critical Beats,' Design Observer 3.0, (2010), www.designobserver.com/places/entry.html?entry=12 948 (accessed 10 March 2010). 13. Martin Filler, “American Architecture and its Criticism: Reflections on the State of the Arts”, in Tod A. Marder (ed.), The Critical Edge: Controversy in Recent American Architecture, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985, p. 27. 14. Suzanne Stephens, “Assessing the State of Architectural Criticism in Today's Press”, Architectural Record, 186 (March 1998): 68. 15. Paul Goldberger, “Postscript”, in András Szántó, Eric Fredricksen and Ray Rinaldi (eds), The Architecture Critic: A Survey of Newspaper Architecture Critics in America, National Arts Journalism Program, New York: Columbia University, 2001, p. 27.