Call for Abstracts for Edited Book Chapters Canon(s) and Icon(s): re-wondering a North-South contamination Editors: Dr. Angela Gigliotti1, Dr. Chiara Monterumisi2, Dr. Monica Prencipe3 1 - Det Danske Institut i Rom / Accademia di Danimarca, Italy; ETH Zürich, Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design, Switzerland; Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark. 2 - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, DAR, Italy 3 - Università di Roma Sapienza, DICEA, Italy Book Series Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementa Publisher Edizioni Quasar References: Kotsioris, E. 2020. ‘The Queering of Architecture History Has Yet to Happen’: The Intra-Canonical Outlook of Beatriz Colomina. Architectural Histories, 8(1). Banham, R. 1996. Actual Monuments. (1988). In: Banham, M., et. al, A Critic Writes: Essays by Reyner Banham. Berkeley: University of California Press. B. Steiner, C. 1996. ‘Can the Canon Burst?’. The art Bulletin, 78 (2). Franco Albini at Alvar Aalto's Villa Mairea, Noormarkku, Finland Source: Archivio Fondazione Franco Albini In the last decades, both architectural history and discipline have witnessed a continuous addition of external figures to the canon (Banham 1996) often following Henry-Russel Hitchcock’s “extra-canonical” approach. Rethinking the grand narrative of architecture also needs what Beatriz Colomina defined an “intra-canonical” perspective (Kotsioris 2020): the attempts to dismantle, expose, and even reassemble the structure of the canon and its multifaceted icons. Based on Pierre Bourdieu’s theories, for Christopher B. Steiner canon is a “structure which is in a continuous process of reproducing itself, mediating its identity through market forces, and negating the social conditions of its productions by covering the tracks of its arbitrary and subjective formations” (Steiner 1996). Starting from such premises, this edited book belonging to the series SUPPLEMENTA aims at confronting the rhetoric(s) on multiple exchanges between Nordic European countries and Southern ones, also beyond their European boundaries including Global South, spanning from traditional methods of architectural research to the more experimental and artistic formats. Addressing spaces across multidisciplinary and multi-focused encounters are also welcome. We invite authors to focus on this cross, mutual and complex contamination that covers a wide time span, from the early 18th century stretching till the recent years. The reception of these thoughts has been transformed under the pressure of the cultural and socio-economic change and inevitably brought to a progressive reconsideration of the two iconic labels of “North” and “South”. To a closer look, the construction of the aura around both models derived from: field trips; exchanges between institutions; books and reviews; itinerant exhibitions; involvement of cultural diplomatic propaganda; built interventions assumed as key references till nowadays; and, not least, the establishment of supranational agreements, treaties and privileges, Call for Abstracts for Edited Book Chapters guaranteeing a contamination of ideas and practices, as well as a free circulation of people, capital, goods, knowledge and service – that has allowed more and more a substantial portion of architectural practices’ turnover generated by export to foreign countries. Canon(s) and Icon(s): re-wondering a North-South contamination The purpose is to map across temporal framework the different approaches through specific case studies and comparative investigations. Of particular interest will be the disentanglement of the building, hybridizing or dismantling of Nordic and Southern models within a broader process of decolonization meant to offer alternatives to dominant stereotypical standpoints. The complexity of a North-South contamination(s) could be channeled into many perspectives, that are here summarised: Perspective 1 | Post-occupied spaces Spatial readings: dynamics of cross-cultural design strategies and projects at home and abroad (interior studies, typological studies, sociological studies, urban studies, landscape studies,…); Perspective 2 | Colophon matters Authorship readings: voices of forgotten actors – segregated by gender, class-division, labour-division and other factors – who operated across borders, behind the scenes of design process (architects, industrial designers, clients, contractors, builders, site workers, bureaucrats, secretaries, politicians,...); Perspective 3 | Building cultures Knowledge readings: contaminations between foreign-imported and local-hosting building networks (materials, techniques, professional organization, codes, guidelines, unions structures,...); Perspective 4 | Media and Communication Historiographical readings: dynamics and occasions of international exchanges of knowledges (competitions, expo, conferences, seminars, travels, educational program, cinema, photography, visual arts,...). Timeline Launch of Call for paper Deadline for proposals Notice of acceptance Submission of full paper (40-50.000 ch) 26.04.2022 26.07.2022 15.09.2022 15.12.2022 Guidelines for proposals: Contributors are invited to submit one single file (max 10 MB) comprising: a chapter abstract (3500 ch), its outline and a title; one b&w image; five keywords; author(s) name(s); current affiliation and e-mail address; a short bio (500 ch) and a list of 3-5 recent publications. Please send us your proposals to anorthsouthcontamination@gmail.com by 26.07.2022.