Histories of architecture covering the whole world were (and are still being) published from the beginning of the eighteenth century until today. Paradigms, approaches and theories changed dramatically during this period. From the comparative histories of religion and culture of the Enlightenment to the national and imperial narratives of the nineteenth century, from the racist and völkisch models of interpretation up to decolonization and UNESCO World Cultural Heritage – concepts about architecture, nature, and origins always play a prominent role. The workshop will discuss authors and theories on the day of the opening of the exhibition “Weltgeschichten der Architektur. Ursprünge, Narrative, Bilder 1700?2016”.

Program

14.00h Welcome and Coffee

14.30h Matteo Burioni (LMU/ZI): Introduction

14.45h Caroline van Eck (University of Cambridge): Polychromy, tatouage and cannibalism: Gottfried Semper and the foundations of a world history of architecture

15.30h Henrik Karge (TU Dresden): Kugler, Schnaase, Lübke - das Zusammenspiel globaler Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts

16.15h Petra Brouwer (University of Amsterdam): The invention of a genre: James Fergusson’s Handbook of Architecture (1855)

17.00h Exhibition Preview

18.15h Gauvin Alexander Bailey (Queen’s University): Architecture in the French Atlantic World, 1608-1828: Utopianism and Intransigence in a Paper Empire