ABE JournalPub Date : 2019-07-28DOI: 10.4000/ABE.6221
Robby Fivez
{"title":"The Guide schématique de la ligne [1957]. Tracing the infrastructure landscape along the Matadi-Kinshasa railway line (DR Congo) through a living archive","authors":"Robby Fivez","doi":"10.4000/ABE.6221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ABE.6221","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction In his book The River Congo, an 1895 travelogue of his journey to the lower reaches of the Congo River, the British scientist Harry Hamilton Johnston, used an array of tactile adjectives to describe the landscape of the Bas-Congo region, largely unknown to his audience of the late nineteenth century. In one particularly colorful passage, leaving all scientific objectivity behind, Johnston discusses the “boldly shaped hills,” the “velvety woods,” the “tiny streams” and the “soundi...","PeriodicalId":41296,"journal":{"name":"ABE Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44913357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABE JournalPub Date : 2019-07-28DOI: 10.4000/abe.5632
Kathleen James-Chakraborty
{"title":"Bärbel Högner, Chandigarh nach Le Corbusier: Ethnographie einer postcolonialen Planstadt in Indien","authors":"Kathleen James-Chakraborty","doi":"10.4000/abe.5632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.5632","url":null,"abstract":"What in 2018 does the division between east and west mean and does it still remain possible to equate one with tradition and the other with modernity? If an inhabitant of a small European city whose medieval street plan is still discernable attends a performance of a Bach cantata and Christmas or Easter services, is he or she hopelessly mired in tradition? And must Indians who consider themselves modern necessarily forsake all localized belief systems and social practices to achieve that goal...","PeriodicalId":41296,"journal":{"name":"ABE Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45519955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABE JournalPub Date : 2019-07-28DOI: 10.4000/ABE.6193
S. Ayers
{"title":"An English Country House in Calcutta: mapping networks between Government House, the statesman John Adam, and the architect Robert Adam","authors":"S. Ayers","doi":"10.4000/ABE.6193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ABE.6193","url":null,"abstract":"Government House in Calcutta, today known as the Raj Bhavan of West Bengal, was built between 1799 and 1803 as the official residence for the Governor-General of Fort William, then the 1st Marquess Wellesley. It is well-established that Government House is modelled after Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, England, known for the involvement of Robert Adam in its design. A significant fact linking Adam, and therefore Kedleston, with Government House is the previously unacknowledged presence of Adam’s great-nephew, the statesman John Adam, in Calcutta at the time Government House was designed and built. In the exploration of Scottish architectural and familial networks within the British empire, this article seeks to locate the identities of Robert Adam and John Adam within a series of exchanges: between Government House and Kedleston Hall; between public buildings and private houses; between India and Britain; and finally between Scottish, English and British identities. In the context of these exchanges, the study of Government House allows us to connect Robert Adam and John Adam, explore concealments of Scottish identity, and ultimately map previously unknown familial, professional and architectural networks.","PeriodicalId":41296,"journal":{"name":"ABE Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46897179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABE JournalPub Date : 2019-07-28DOI: 10.4000/abe.6164
Sofie Boonen
{"title":"Une ville construite par des « gens d’ailleurs ». Développements urbains à Elisabethville, Congo belge (actuellement Lubumbashi, RDC)","authors":"Sofie Boonen","doi":"10.4000/abe.6164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.6164","url":null,"abstract":"The first discussions about architecture in Belgian Congo underlined the hasty character of the new urban developments in the rich mining province Katanga. The mining city Elisabethville, founded in 1910 to become the colony’s provincial capital and economic center, was strongly criticized for the use of uninteresting imported urban schemes. Yet, apart from the emergence of an urban landscape of dubious quality, it was the absence of Belgian architects and urban planners on the Belgian coloni...","PeriodicalId":41296,"journal":{"name":"ABE Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48899980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABE JournalPub Date : 2019-07-28DOI: 10.4000/ABE.5551
Peter Kohane
{"title":"From Scotland to India: the Sources of James Fergusson’s Theory of Architecture’s “True Styles”","authors":"Peter Kohane","doi":"10.4000/ABE.5551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ABE.5551","url":null,"abstract":"James Fergusson’s (1808-86) books on architectural history were widely read in Britain, America, India and Australia. He was born in the Scottish town of Ayr and educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh. Family connections made it possible for him to work and travel in India between 1829 and 1839. Fergusson wrote notes on a vast array of the country’s antiquities. He began publishing this material in London during the 1840s and completed a comprehensive survey of the subject in 1876, the History of Indian and Eastern Styles of Architecture. For him, each Indian architectural style was classified according to its region and period, as well as the religion and race of the builders. This essay considers the Scottish background for Fergusson’s writings of India, particularly as set out in letters and a diary, written during his journeys within the country. He discerned an ideal, in which the arts of agriculture and architecture are similarly practiced in a logical manner. Fergusson was especially impressed by the way workers in India respected common sense when constructing and adorning a building. Such an edifice was described as “pure”; and conformed to his mature definition of a “true style” of architecture.","PeriodicalId":41296,"journal":{"name":"ABE Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45726543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABE JournalPub Date : 2019-07-28DOI: 10.4000/ABE.5949
Burcu Dogramaci, Rachel Lee
{"title":"Refugee Artists, Architects and Intellectuals Beyond Europe in the 1930s and 1940s: Experiences of Exile in Istanbul and Bombay","authors":"Burcu Dogramaci, Rachel Lee","doi":"10.4000/ABE.5949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ABE.5949","url":null,"abstract":"This article follows the hypothesis that the migration movements of artists, architects and intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century had a profound and long-term impact on art and architectural production and history. During the first half of the twentieth century artists, architects and intellectuals from Europe sought refuge in global metropolises. As hubs of globalizing modernism these cities were places of entrance, transition and creativity for people fleeing their native countries due to changes in political systems, dictatorships and wars, repression, persecution and violence. In the metropolises new transcultural places of artistic encounter were established. Flight, exile and migration brought artistic and architectural concepts, objects and actors around the world into contact, resulting in transformations that are legible in the topographies and structures of cities, particularly in the ”target“ cities. Their urban topographies contain neighbourhoods, places and spaces that were populated, frequented and run by migrants. In addition to providing the migrants with income, employment and exposure, urban institutions, academies, associations and museums were crucial settings for interaction and exchange between the local and migrant populations. In the following we discuss preliminary findings on the connections between exile, modernism and the urban environment in Istanbul and Bombay (now Mumbai). The essay draws on ongoing research from the European Research Council funded project Relocating Modernism. Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile (Metromod).","PeriodicalId":41296,"journal":{"name":"ABE Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45619866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABE JournalPub Date : 2019-07-28DOI: 10.4000/abe.5724
Ian Y. H. Tan
{"title":"Isabella Jackson, Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China’s Global City","authors":"Ian Y. H. Tan","doi":"10.4000/abe.5724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.5724","url":null,"abstract":"Known popularly as the “Paris of the Orient,” late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Shanghai has fascinated scholars with its idiosyncratic blend of Chinese and Western cultures. Out of its unique cultural milieu arose a distinctive “Shanghai style,” encompassing literature, architecture, cinema and fashion. It is via the latter of these that readers have commonly associated Shanghai with the notion of modernity. Most writing on the city has focused on the lifestyles of different class...","PeriodicalId":41296,"journal":{"name":"ABE Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46969352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABE JournalPub Date : 2018-10-15DOI: 10.4000/abe.4257
Stuart King
{"title":"Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Jan De Maeyer and Martin Bressani (eds.), Gothic Revival Worldwide: A.W.N. Pugin’s Global Influence","authors":"Stuart King","doi":"10.4000/abe.4257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.4257","url":null,"abstract":"Gothic Revival Worldwide: A.W.N. Pugin’s Global Influence (2016) is an edited collection that attempts to define the current state of Pugin scholarship, and Gothic Revival studies more generally, internationally. It arises from the conference “New Directions in Gothic Revival Studies Worldwide,” hosted by the Centre for Research in European Architecture at the Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent, in July 2012, which marked the bicentenary of A.W.N. Pugin’s birth. It is an immediat...","PeriodicalId":41296,"journal":{"name":"ABE Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49400752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABE JournalPub Date : 2018-10-15DOI: 10.4000/abe.4333
Clara Ilham Álvarez Dopico
{"title":"Une nouvelle tradition : la céramique algéroise à l’aube du xxe siècle","authors":"Clara Ilham Álvarez Dopico","doi":"10.4000/abe.4333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.4333","url":null,"abstract":"L’architecture neo-mauresque et la transformation des grandes demeures suburbaines d’epoque ottomane a Alger, donne naissance, a la fin des annees 1880, a une production de ceramique historiciste, qui decline a partir des annees 1920. Il est question ici du milieu algerien – collectionneurs, architectes, industriels, historien – qui, revendiquant la tradition, permet l’essor de cette nouvelle industrie d’art. L’article presente une experience ephemere de renovation, plutot creation, de l’artisanat algerois : l’atelier de ceramique ouvert, entre 1899 et 1901, au musee des Arts et des Antiquites a Mustapha sous la direction du conservateur Georges Marye et de l’ecrivain Emile Violard.","PeriodicalId":41296,"journal":{"name":"ABE Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75392106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}