Book for Mary: Sixty on Seventy, ed. by Joan Ockman and Irena Lehkoživová, 2020
Across contentious postwar landscapes
from the American South to Bosnia
and Herzegovina, memorial... more Across contentious postwar landscapes from the American South to Bosnia and Herzegovina, memorials have become a form of historical artifact, slipped into an archival box, dropped into the historical record, their origins forgotten or revised to serve as a building block for a desired historical or political narrative. As public objects, memorials form part of a public political and cultural discourse. And as such, by necessity, they operate polemically: memorials speak on behalf of power, they advocate for a particular framework of perception or analysis. Under this stone draws our attention to this practice, forcing us to face the many ways that memorials can and do exert agency within and against history.
Oxford Bibliography of Architecture Planning and Preservation , 2023
From antiquity to the present, concrete has played important roles in the development of the buil... more From antiquity to the present, concrete has played important roles in the development of the built environment. At its most basic, concrete is a combination of aggregate and cement. The aggregate adds bulk and strength, and might be any coarse material but is most commonly stone of various levels of coarseness, from sand to large rock. The aggregate is bound together by cement, which becomes solid through chemical reaction. While a variety of cement compositions exist, the most common cement in architectural concrete, Portland cement, is made by combining, primarily, lime, silica, and aluminia compounds, which, when heated, react to form calcium silicates and calcium aluminates. When water is added to this mixture, a final series of chemical reactions and processes, called hydration, occurs, turning the liquid mixture into a permanent, cohesive solid. The manufacture of cement produces significant amounts of carbon dioxide, making it a major contributor to atmospheric carbonization and global warming. Concrete’s great architectural appeal lies in its slow change of state during construction. When first activated, concrete is a fluid that can fill the vessel into which it is poured or packed. Then, as it cures, it becomes a load-bearing solid. The result is a dense, stable architectural object that maintains the form of its temporary container. This plasticity enables the production of a wide spectrum of architectural components, from standardized, cost-efficient columns, beams, and panels, to unique, gymnastic forms. This, combined with its ability to simultaneously satisfy multiple fundamental architectural requirements—form, structure, mass, and enclosure, among others—makes concrete a desirable building material for architects, and an object of fascination (and, at times, loathing) by audiences of architecture. This bibliography on concrete reflects the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the study of materials as they contribute to the built environment. Writing on concrete spans a variety of disciplines, among them engineering, materials science, art history, cultural analysis, archaeology, anthropology, and architectural history and theory. The bibliography includes studies of architects, engineers, and buildings, of cities and empires, and of industries and social movements, as well as technical and theoretical considerations analyzing concrete itself.
This article analyses the relationship between charted (drawn) maps and mental maps of the contes... more This article analyses the relationship between charted (drawn) maps and mental maps of the contested border-region between Italy and Yugoslavia following the First World War. Drawing upon graphic and verbal depictions of tourist routes, railways, supply chains, demographics, topographic features and telephone and telegraph lines, the article analyses representations of an unstable border at a moment of peak uncertainty. In so doing, it reveals the centrality of architects, engineers, tourist bureaus, artists and cartographers in forging an imaginary geography that correlated with emerging political divisions in postwar Europe. On both sides of the contested border, cartography was utilised to change the way people conceived political geography. Maps, the article argues, both revealed existing mental maps and helped to shape new ones.
Book for Mary: Sixty on Seventy, ed. by Joan Ockman and Irena Lehkoživová, 2020
Across contentious postwar landscapes
from the American South to Bosnia
and Herzegovina, memorial... more Across contentious postwar landscapes from the American South to Bosnia and Herzegovina, memorials have become a form of historical artifact, slipped into an archival box, dropped into the historical record, their origins forgotten or revised to serve as a building block for a desired historical or political narrative. As public objects, memorials form part of a public political and cultural discourse. And as such, by necessity, they operate polemically: memorials speak on behalf of power, they advocate for a particular framework of perception or analysis. Under this stone draws our attention to this practice, forcing us to face the many ways that memorials can and do exert agency within and against history.
Oxford Bibliography of Architecture Planning and Preservation , 2023
From antiquity to the present, concrete has played important roles in the development of the buil... more From antiquity to the present, concrete has played important roles in the development of the built environment. At its most basic, concrete is a combination of aggregate and cement. The aggregate adds bulk and strength, and might be any coarse material but is most commonly stone of various levels of coarseness, from sand to large rock. The aggregate is bound together by cement, which becomes solid through chemical reaction. While a variety of cement compositions exist, the most common cement in architectural concrete, Portland cement, is made by combining, primarily, lime, silica, and aluminia compounds, which, when heated, react to form calcium silicates and calcium aluminates. When water is added to this mixture, a final series of chemical reactions and processes, called hydration, occurs, turning the liquid mixture into a permanent, cohesive solid. The manufacture of cement produces significant amounts of carbon dioxide, making it a major contributor to atmospheric carbonization and global warming. Concrete’s great architectural appeal lies in its slow change of state during construction. When first activated, concrete is a fluid that can fill the vessel into which it is poured or packed. Then, as it cures, it becomes a load-bearing solid. The result is a dense, stable architectural object that maintains the form of its temporary container. This plasticity enables the production of a wide spectrum of architectural components, from standardized, cost-efficient columns, beams, and panels, to unique, gymnastic forms. This, combined with its ability to simultaneously satisfy multiple fundamental architectural requirements—form, structure, mass, and enclosure, among others—makes concrete a desirable building material for architects, and an object of fascination (and, at times, loathing) by audiences of architecture. This bibliography on concrete reflects the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the study of materials as they contribute to the built environment. Writing on concrete spans a variety of disciplines, among them engineering, materials science, art history, cultural analysis, archaeology, anthropology, and architectural history and theory. The bibliography includes studies of architects, engineers, and buildings, of cities and empires, and of industries and social movements, as well as technical and theoretical considerations analyzing concrete itself.
This article analyses the relationship between charted (drawn) maps and mental maps of the contes... more This article analyses the relationship between charted (drawn) maps and mental maps of the contested border-region between Italy and Yugoslavia following the First World War. Drawing upon graphic and verbal depictions of tourist routes, railways, supply chains, demographics, topographic features and telephone and telegraph lines, the article analyses representations of an unstable border at a moment of peak uncertainty. In so doing, it reveals the centrality of architects, engineers, tourist bureaus, artists and cartographers in forging an imaginary geography that correlated with emerging political divisions in postwar Europe. On both sides of the contested border, cartography was utilised to change the way people conceived political geography. Maps, the article argues, both revealed existing mental maps and helped to shape new ones.
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from the American South to Bosnia
and Herzegovina, memorials have become
a form of historical artifact, slipped into an
archival box, dropped into the historical
record, their origins forgotten or revised
to serve as a building block for a desired
historical or political narrative. As public
objects, memorials form part of a public
political and cultural discourse. And as
such, by necessity, they operate polemically:
memorials speak on behalf of power,
they advocate for a particular framework
of perception or analysis. Under this stone
draws our attention to this practice, forcing
us to face the many ways that memorials
can and do exert agency within and
against history.
from the American South to Bosnia
and Herzegovina, memorials have become
a form of historical artifact, slipped into an
archival box, dropped into the historical
record, their origins forgotten or revised
to serve as a building block for a desired
historical or political narrative. As public
objects, memorials form part of a public
political and cultural discourse. And as
such, by necessity, they operate polemically:
memorials speak on behalf of power,
they advocate for a particular framework
of perception or analysis. Under this stone
draws our attention to this practice, forcing
us to face the many ways that memorials
can and do exert agency within and
against history.