Travels in Architectural History

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2016-11-23

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Deriu, Davide
Piccoli, Edoardo
Ozkaya, Belgin Turan

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Travel is a powerful force in shaping the perception of the modern world and plays an ever-growing role within architectural and urban cultures. Inextricably linked to political and ideological issues, travel redefines places and landscapes through new transport infrastructures and buildings. Architecture, in turn, is reconstructed through visual and textual narratives produced by scores of modern travellers including writers and artists along with architects themselves. In the age of the camera, travel is bound up with new kinds of imaginaries; private records and recollections often mingle with official, stereotyped views, as the value of architectural heritage increasingly rests on the mechanical reproduction of its images. Whilst students often learn about architectural history through image collections, the place of the journey in the formation of the architect itself shifts. No longer a lone and passionate antiquarian or an itinerant designer, the modern architect eagerly hops on buses, trains, and planes in pursuit of personal as well as professional interests. Increasingly built on a presumption of mobility, architectural culture integrates travel into cultural debates and design experiments. By addressing such issues from a variety of perspectives, this collection, a special Architectural Histories issue on travel, prompts us to rethink the mobile conditions in which architecture has historically been produced and received.

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Travel, Mobile architecture, Architect's journey, Tourism, Guide book, Grand tour, Heritage site, Stereoscope

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66896

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ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIES

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https://doi.org/10.5334/ah.234

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Department of Architecture, Article

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D. Deriu, E. Piccoli, and B. T. Ozkaya, “Travels in Architectural History,” ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIES, pp. 0–0, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66896.