Architekt:innen-Monographien. Kanonisierung, Kontextualisierung, Kritik

Architekt:innen-Monographien. Kanonisierung, Kontextualisierung, Kritik
Antje Senarclens de Grancy / Ruth Hanisch / Richard Kurdiovsky / Bernadette Reinhold (Eds.)
RIHA Journal, Special Issue
München: Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, 2025
German / English, 189 pages
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Monographs on architects are a deeply established scholarly publication format in the context of architectural historiography, yet one that is rarely questioned. This volume embarks on a revision of the architects’ monograph since the nineteenth century, taking an approach founded on multiple perspectives and placing a particular focus on Central European modernism. Central to all contributions is the question of the respective hegemonic ideas of “monograph worthiness” negotiated within this scholarly field, as well as the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion prevailing within (or originating from) a canon based on a particular value system. Today, factors such as place of origin, religion, gender, political orientation, discontinuous personal histories, career changes, and networks are vital for the examination of connections between life and work, and therefore correspond to an expanded cultural-science understanding of artistic-architectural production. This volume arose from a 2021 symposium organized by the Research Network Austrian Architecture in the 19th and 20th Centuries in collaboration with the Art History research unit of the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.