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{"title":"ARH volume 65 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/arh.2022.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2022.29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"34 1","pages":"f1 - f2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76584799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The First Draft of Serlio’s Sixth Book and its Arrival in Britain, c. 1700","authors":"I. Campbell","doi":"10.1017/arh.2022.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2022.8","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the provenance of the first draft of Sebastiano Serlio’s sixth book, on dwellings, written in the 1540s. It was acquired by the Avery Library at Columbia University, New York, a century ago and published for the first time in 1978. The article proposes that the manuscript and drawings remained in the vicinity of Paris until the late seventeenth century, when they were mounted and bound into an album that may have been sold by a descendant of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau I, either in Paris or the Netherlands. It goes on to demonstrate that, in the early eighteenth century, the manuscript was owned by Francis Bird, a leading British sculptor of his day, who collaborated with leading architects including Christopher Wren, James Gibbs and, possibly, Nicholas Hawksmoor.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"24 1","pages":"143 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83291100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lawrence Chua, Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910–1973 (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2021), 296 pp. incl. 36 colour and 34 b&w ills, ISBN 9780824884604, £70.50","authors":"Jiat-Hwee Chang","doi":"10.1017/arh.2022.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2022.23","url":null,"abstract":"Romania and Hungary, the book reveals a complex overlapping of layers that reflects shifts in internal and foreign policies, as well as the complexity of discourses around labour and technologies. While the book offers a unique account of these networks of collaboration, it also engages with a compelling set of themes that emphasise not only architecture’s instrumental role in the socialist endeavour, but also its ability to open up modes of worldmaking. In doing so, the book enriches and adds nuance to contemporary postcolonial discourses, which often overlook the presence and mediating role of these socialist countries in processes of decolonisation and state-making, and it demonstrates that the cold war context cannot be thoroughly addressed without a consideration of the intersections between the global north, south and east. With its impressive investigation of multilingual archival material across multiple countries, Stanek’s book is an extraordinary account of these heterogeneous rapports and changing sovereignties, and a ground-breaking contribution not only to the historiography of modern architecture, but also to the cultural history of the cold war.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"39 1","pages":"377 - 379"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83721362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bureaucratic Reforms as Triggers of Experimental Design: KBS and Public Building in Sweden, 1963–74","authors":"Erik Sigge","doi":"10.1017/arh.2022.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2022.7","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between architecture and public administration at the Swedish National Board of Public Building (Kungl. Byggnadsstyrelsen, or KBS) in the years 1963–74. This government agency, which existed from 1918 to 1993, was in charge of planning, designing, producing and maintaining public service buildings and facilities. During the 1960s, it was subject to a number of major administrative reforms which, by rationalising the organisation’s activities, sought to make both the construction and maintenance of buildings more cost-effective for the taxpayer. These reforms paralleled rationalisation efforts in the field of architectural design, where structural and material efficiency were sought in the adoption of large-scale systems. The administrative reforms thus went beyond the reorganisation of departments and work priorities to permeate all aspects of the agency’s activities. The article presents the architectural activities of KBS as innovative and experimental responses to bureaucratic structures and requirements. Examination of the design and building processes of three projects — the national telecom headquarters in Farsta, the Garnisonen office complex in central Stockholm and Linköping University — uncovers some of the administrative structures deployed at KBS, and the creative and novel architectural solutions triggered by their integration into design and planning practices.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"37 1","pages":"123 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85172698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Talinn Grigor, The Persian Revival: The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2021), 262 pp. incl. 75 b&w ills, ISBN 9780271089430, £71.95","authors":"G. Bremner","doi":"10.1017/arh.2022.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2022.20","url":null,"abstract":"single volume in 1827. Moreover, as an employee of Sir John Soane’s Museum, I was interested to note that Soane decided to take a pair of his first edition volumes and have them bound together in 1832. For practicality’s sake, the single volume containing both publications is a gem. Having said that, these publications have always been a costly proposition. When the first editions of both Palmyra and Baalbek were offered to subscribers before publication, the cost was three guineas each. Even second-hand, Soane bought one of his five first edition copies in 1808 for £2.2s. Just like the original subscribers, the modern reader must dig deeply into their purse to partake of these delights from the comfort of their own home. Either that or visit their library.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"1 1","pages":"370 - 372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89926809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Łukasz Stanek, Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020), 368 pp. incl. 150 colour and 127 b&w ills, ISBN 9780691168708, £48","authors":"I. Stătică","doi":"10.1017/arh.2022.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2022.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83310311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"’The Basilica Ulpia, Early Christian Churches and the Roman Double Truss’ — ERRATUM","authors":"Elwin C. Robison","doi":"10.1017/arh.2022.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2022.28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"49 1","pages":"387 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90419149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sabine Wieber, Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), 227 pp. incl. 14 plates and 55 ills, ISBN 9781350088528, £85","authors":"Shona Kallestrup","doi":"10.1017/arh.2022.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2022.21","url":null,"abstract":"(1866–71), the Parsi elite usually opted for variants of European architecture, such as the gothic revival, knitting their community more firmly into the urban fabric. In the third chapter, Grigor unpacks the evolution of the Persian revival style on home turf, in Iran. Here she attempts (convincingly, in my view) to establish the style as part of the wider modernisation of Qajar and Pahlavi Iran. Although posited initially in the immediate post-Safavid era, it was mostly employed under Naser al-Din Shah and into the Pahlavi period. From the early twentieth century onwards (until the late 1930s), more and increasingly lavish buildings were erected, with full-blown modern, state-sponsored renditions of the style: banks, police stations and government buildings appeared as up-to-date versions of Persepolitan temples, marked most visibly by monumental talar frontages. In this context, the Persian revival articulated a burgeoning national identity, reaching back into a glorified past. These buildings, Grigor observes, including the National Bank in Tehran (1933–35) by A. Hemmrich and the Tehran police headquarters (1933) by Ghalitch Baqlian and Haj Beheshti, representing ‘perfected and sanitized ministries [...] were not only the aesthetic expression of a staunchly ethnonationalist state but also the final chapter in the long (art) history of the Persian Revival’. Although the Persian revival was a rather minor phenomenon compared to the prevalence of other revival styles, in British India and elsewhere, it is nonetheless interesting and important. Grigor’s rigorous analysis of its development over nearly 200 years defines its scholarly and political contours with remarkable insight for the first time. The study is particularly important for students of architecture in British India, as the Persian revival adds a new dimension not only to India’s rich architectural history, but also to how we understand the complexities of indigenous agency. The only substantive criticism I have of the book is that it could have been better illustrated, especially as it is an exposé of a largely neglected genre. There is also little spatial analysis of the buildings, which remain rather mysterious. Many were no doubt difficult if not impossible to access, but it left me wondering what historical drawings and plans exist. The study is therefore a history of an idea more than a full architectural history. Nevertheless, it is monumental and ground-breaking in its own way.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"1 1","pages":"372 - 374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75771509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Township Complete in Itself: The London County Council Architects and the Building of Becontree, 1919–34","authors":"Christopher Metz","doi":"10.1017/arh.2022.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2022.3","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Between the first and second world wars, the London County Council (LCC) provided 82,000 working-class cottages and flats, of which 25,000 were built on the vast Becontree estate in the east of the metropolis. With these immense housing operations in hand, the LCC drastically increased its technical and administrative staff, becoming one of the largest municipal housing authorities in the world. This article sheds light on the organisation and functioning of the LCC Architect’s Department through analysis of the Becontree estate. Despite the extensive literature on municipal housing in the inter-war years, the council’s own architects during this period have remained almost entirely unknown. Contrary to the widespread preconception of the ‘official architect’, the LCC Architect’s Department evaluated and revised its organisational structure and managed to maintain a remarkable variety and complexity in its urbanistic approach — despite the overarching principles of standardisation and simplification, and despite its limited influence in relation to other departments within the LCC. Analysis of archival sources reveals the identity of these official architects and questions whether the organisational structure of the LCC Architect’s Department as a bureaucracy was reflected in the character of its housing estates.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"2 1","pages":"39 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72914434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Katherine Zubovich, Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020), 288 pp. incl. 70 b&w ills, ISBN 9780691178905, £30; 9780691202723, £25","authors":"Alla Vronskaya","doi":"10.1017/arh.2022.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2022.25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"25 1","pages":"381 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82968198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}