Architecture, Environment, History: Questions and Consequences. Issue 2 (4th May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Barber, Daniel A.; Stickells, Lee; Ryan, Daniel J.; Koehler, Maren; Leach, Andrew; Goad, Philip; van der Plaat, Deborah; Keys, Cathy; Karim, Farhan; Taylor, William M.
• Is Part Of: Architectural theory review. Volume 22:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 249
• Page End: 286
• Publication Date: 2018-05-04
• Subjects: Architectural history -- environmental history -- architectural theory -- architectural historiography -- Climate; Architecture -- Periodicals; Architecture -- Australia -- Periodicals; 720.1
• DOI: 10.1080/13264826.2018.1482725
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1326-4826

Abstract

Abstract : There is increasing interest among architectural historians in addressing environmental concerns on both historical and theoretical terms. Simultaneously, other fields have been looking to architectural scholarship to understand the historical relationship between the built and the natural environment. For architectural historians, and others, this has also involved correlating the shifting discourse on environment with a history of architectural transformations and disciplinary expansions. These engagements have made clear that the environmental history of architecture does not simply add more objects to the historical database, but also changes the terms of historical analysis, as new matters of concern and new conceptual frameworks come to the fore. This paper gathers together a dialogic set of projections from scholars responding to the question of how we might newly understand the historical relationship between the built and the natural environment, and the opportunities and challenges this new phase presents to scholars, design researchers, and architects.