Appel à communications: Toward a Geography of Architectural Criticism: Disciplinary Boundaries and Shared Territories, Paris/Rennes, April 3-4, 2017

Appel à communications : Toward a Geography of Architectural Criticism: Disciplinary Boundaries and Shared Territories

Date limite : 8 janvier 2017 au plus tard à l’adresse suivante: mappingcritarch@gmail.com

Organisateur :  le réseau de recherche MAPPING ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM (Architectural criticism 20th and 21st centuries, a cartography/ La Critique architecturale, XXe et XXIe siècles: une cartographie, Projet ANR-14-CE31-0019-01 – Université Rennes 2

Lieu : Paris/Rennes

Date : April 3-4, 2017

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After the first workshop (Université Rennes 2 and Archives de la critique d’art, Rennes, January 2016), centered on the relationship of criticism to “public opinion” and on criticism as an autonomous discipline, the second workshop (Università di Bologna, October 2016) focused on the actors and “vehicles” of architectural criticism. This third international symposium, to be held in Paris (Institut national d’histoire de l’art) and Rennes on April 3rd and 4th, 2017, intends to debate two key questions related to the geographies of criticism: what are criticism’s disciplinary boundaries and which territories has criticism shared from the last decades of the 19th to the end of the 20th century with other disciplines. In the first place, the symposium interrogates the overlapping of architectural criticism with different kinds of architectural writing, in particular those pertaining to architectural history and theory, but also those stemming from disciplines as diverse as sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. The symposium is equally aimed at highlighting the relationships, the common terrains, and the conceptual tools that architectural criticism has in common with other genres of criticism, such as art criticism, music or film criticism, and literary criticism. The term “territory” is used here to refer primarily to the various disciplinary fields on which criticism relies and from which it borrows its concepts and patterns of interpretation, as well as its intellectual tools. The term “boundary”, for its part, is used to denote the zones of exchange and confrontation between criticism, history, theory and other types of writing on architecture, as well as between architectural criticism and other forms of criticism. The main aim of the symposium is to map these territories and delineate these boundaries.

Pascal Fort

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