ARCHITECTURE REPERFORMED:
THE POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION
Architecture RePerformed:
The Politics of Reconstruction
Edited by
Tino Mager
Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
ASHGATE
Tino Mager and the contributors 2015
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Architecture RePerformed : The Politics of Reconstruction / [edited] by Tino Mager.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-5933-6 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4724-5934-3 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-4724-5935-0 (epub)
1. Architecture and society. 2. Architecture Political aspects. 3. Buildings Repair and reconstruction. 4. Reproduction (Psychology) I. Mager, Tino, editor.
NA2543.S6A6345 2015
724'.6 dc23
2015014506
ISBN 9781472459336 (hbk)
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Contents
Tino Mager
Arnold Bartetzky
Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes
Robert Born
Renato Cymbalista and Joo Carlos Santos Kuhn
Julien Bastoen
Alice Y. Tseng
Jing Zhuge
Alexandra Klei
List of Figures
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Notes on Contributors
DR ARNOLD BARTETZKY
Research Coordinator for Art History at the Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe at Leipzig University (GWZO). Sessional teaching of History of Art at the Universities of Leipzig, Jena and Paderborn. Regular contributor to the cultural section of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Principal fields of research: architecture, city planning, monument preservation and political iconography from the nineteenth century to the present, architecture of the Renaissance and the Mannerism.
DR JULIEN BASTOEN
Associate teacher in Architectural History at the Ecole Nationale Suprieure dArchitecture de Paris La Villette. PhD in architecture at University Paris Est. Writes as architecture critic for Criticat and Archiscopie. Fellow at Keepers Preservation Education Fund. Various articles on architectural cloning, museum and department store architectural history.
DR ROBERT BORN
Research Fellow at the Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe at Leipzig University. Sessional teaching of history of art at the Universities of Leipzig, Basel and Berlin. Specialized in historiography of art and nationalism in South-Eastern Europe, symbolic constructions of the past in South-Eastern Europe.
DR RENATO CYMBALISTA
Architect and Urbanist, PhD in Architecture and Urbanism (University of So Paulo, Brazil, 2006), Post-doc in History at the University of Campinas. Professor of Urban History at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of So Paulo. Coordinator of Urbanism of Instituto Plis, a So Paulo-based NGO and research Institute. Visiting scholar and visiting professor in several universities and institutions including ISCTE Lisbon, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Brandenburgische Universitt Cottbus and the John Carter Brown Library, Providence.
DR JOSEP-MARIA GARCIA-FUENTES
Lecturer in Architecture at Newcastle University (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape). He is also an architect, Fellow of the London School of Economics Catalan Observatory and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Architectural Composition at the Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTECH. Formerly vice dean and international coordinator at the Escola Tcnica Superior dArquitectura del Valls-Barcelona (201114) and Assistant Professor (201014) in the same university. Winner of the First National Prize of Spain for university graduates 2006. Fellow by the Caja de Arquitectos (2004), the Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTECH (2007), the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (200710) and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for the Society of Architectural Historians (2011).
DR ALEXANDRA KLEI
Lecturer in Art History at Ruhr University Bochum. Current research topics: architect Hermann Zvi Guttmann and the conditioning for Jewish building developments in Germany after 1945, White City Tel Aviv (Habilitation treatise), architecture and town planning in Israel, memorial places, architecture after 1945, photography.
JOO CARLOS SANTOS KUHN, MA
Architect and Urbanist (University of Braslia), Masters in Architecture and Urbanism, School of Architecture and Urbanism (University of So Paulo), researcher in the research group Sites of memory and Conscience (University of So Paulo/ National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development, Brazil).
DR TINO MAGER
Art and Architectural Historian. Studies in Media Technology at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK), graduate engineer. Studies in Art History and Communication Sciences at Berlin Institute of Technology, University of Barcelona (Spain) and Sophia University Tokyo (Japan), MA. PhD in art history at Berlin Institute of Technology. Dissertation on the notion of authenticity regarding historical architecture. Visiting Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles. Elsa-Neumann Fellow. Lectureships at Berlin Institute of Technology and Istanbul Technical University (Turkey). Various publications on transnational artistic education, twentieth century architects and traditional Japanese architecture. Currently a postdoctoral research fellow at research group WDWM (Which Monuments, Which Modernity?) at TU Dortmund University / Bauhaus University Weimar.
DR ALICE Y. TSENG
Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture, at Boston University. Fellowships from numerous institutions and foundations, including the Fulbright Foundation, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art), J. Paul Getty Foundation, Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, American Council of Learned Societies. Recipient of the 2006 Founders Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. Specific topics of research interest are the history of institutional buildings, collections, exhibitions, and transnational and transcultural connections between Japan and Euro-America.
DR JING ZHUGE
Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Southeast University, China. She graduated in architectural history and theory from the Southeast University in 1997 and also completed her PhD there in 2004. Subsequently, she worked as a professor in the School of Architecture at the university. She teaches the History of Chinese Architecture, Methodologies of Architectural History Research, and Surveying and Measuring of Architecture to graduate students. Her main fields of research are the social significance of architecture in history, the historiography of Chinese architecture and the reconstruction of traditional Chinese concepts of architecture.
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