“Ugly” Architectural Drawings of William Hardy Wilson: (Re)Viewing Architectural Drawings with Difficult Origins or Content for Curation and Display

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Architecture and Culture Pub Date : 2021-06-09 DOI:10.1080/20507828.2021.1876454

Y. Putra

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Abstract This article identifies architectural drawings as "ugly" not aesthetically, but where there are difficult origins or content. It argues for an explicit methodology for their curation and display. The twentieth- and twenty-first-century shift in the viewing of architectural drawings has brought architectural drawings closer to artworks for public consumption. However, the recent reassessment of cultural artifacts clashes with the widely accepted cultural and social mores. By examining drawings by the Australian architect William Hardy Wilson (1881–1955), this article proposes recommendations for the curation and display of ugly architectural drawings that are borrowed from other fields that have made progress in managing similar problems. By testing the recommendations against Hardy Wilson’s drawings, this article shows that contextualizing and acknowledging the offensive nature of his drawings allows for a critical reckoning of Australian architecture across the scholarly, industrial and public spheres.

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威廉·哈迪·威尔逊的“丑陋”建筑图：（再）看创作和展示的来源或内容困难的建筑图

摘要这篇文章认为建筑图纸是“丑陋的”，不是在美学上，而是在有困难的起源或内容的地方。它为它们的策展和展示提出了明确的方法论。二十世纪和二十一世纪建筑绘画观的转变使建筑绘画更接近于供公众消费的艺术品。然而，最近对文物的重新评估与广泛接受的文化和社会习俗相冲突。通过研究澳大利亚建筑师威廉·哈迪·威尔逊（William Hardy Wilson，1881–1955）的绘画，本文提出了借鉴其他领域在处理类似问题方面取得进展的丑陋建筑绘画的策展和展示建议。通过对照哈迪·威尔逊的绘画测试这些建议，这篇文章表明，将其绘画的冒犯性融入背景并加以承认，可以在学术、工业和公共领域对澳大利亚建筑进行批判性的思考。

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