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Wed 29 Jan, 2020 Architecture Cultures, Research Forum
Architecture & Violence
Prompted by President Trump’s threat to bomb heritage sites in Iran, architectural historians at The Courtauld offer a ‘long view’ on the destruction of architecture and heritage in a series of lightning talks. Exploring ideas of iconoclasm, ‘warchitecture’, memory, violence and renewal, papers will consider architectural destruction from the sixteenth…
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Fri 15 Nov, 2019 - Sat 16 Nov, 2019 Architecture Cultures, Global Early Modern: Connecting Cultures, Research Forum
Decentring the Flâneur: global histories of walking the e...
Ideas about the origins and context for the flâneur have been tied to Paris, and viewed through the lens of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. While Benjaminian orthodoxy has increasingly been challenged, the association of the flâneur with modernity and European cities has continued to dominate studies of its variant forms. This conference…
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