14-15.09.2010: Congres / Theoretical Currents: Architecture, Design and the Nation
Het East Midlands Philosophy and History of Architecture Research Network organiseert op 14 en 15 september 2010 een internationaal congres over de manier waarop de idee van de Natie in architectuur en design tot uitdrukking werd gebracht. Voorstellen kunnen tot 19 maart ingediend worden.
Voor meer informatie: theoreticalcurrents@ntu.ac.uk
Some of the most palpable expressions of 'Nation' since the late 18th century have been in Architecture and Design. Modern Europe took shape in the 19th century and much of the contest over appropriate design expression in the era can be seen in the struggles to define 'style' in the name of a nation. In the early 19th century, when Heinrich Hübsch raised the issue of appropriate style, one the central underlying motives was nationalism. Famously, Pugin referred to the Neo-Gothic as '...the most English of Styles". By the early 20th century, Art Nouveau and Art Deco and later the Internationalism of Architecture and Design on both sides of the Atlantic had practically put to bed the issue of segregated nationalism for Western Europe and North America. Following the end of WWII, the general fall of colonialism saw the re-emergence of old nations and the formation of new ones, each with the hunger for a new or renewed nationalism in architecture and design. Since the mid 1980s, with the fall of the Soviet Bloc, we have seen a re-emergent interest of nationalism in Architecture and Design. From South America to Australasia, the Middle East to South Africa, from Asia to the Pacific, Eastern Europe to Sub-continental India, national projects have been proposed, commissioned, and built over struggled effort and sometimes over blood. In contrast to the emergence of nationalism in the late 20th century, the thrust of technology has sustained not only the inter-nationalism of the early 20th century but has also engendered a resolute transnational outlook in Architecture and Design. What role should the notion of 'Nation' play in Architecture and Design? This conference explores the continuing connections between Architecture, Design and the Nation.
Bron: EAHN.org