MA Architectural History Programme Director: Peg Rawes
Teaching Staff Iain Borden, Ben Campkin, Mario Carpo, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell, Amy Thomas, Robin Wilson
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2015
Architecture consists not only of buildings and projects, but also of the life that takes place within them, and the ideas and discussions that they give rise to. The MA Architectural History actively explores what history can do for architecture: students develop skills for interrogating, extending or reframing the discipline and its phenomena, often in terms of broader debates about culture, history and politics. Often this work is experimental and creative, bringing in ideas from different fields to see how these contexts re-situate architecture within the discipline and beyond. Each project below is an experiment, in which a particular architectural phenomenon is examined in the light of a particular theory or set of ideas, to see whether our view of it might change – or, alternatively, whether a theory might need to be reassessed. The Masters, which has been running for 30 years, is partly a taught degree that prepares people for research, and partly a research programme, in which people undertake a self-selected and self-directed research project – an example from this year’s cohort is shown here. 2013–14 Valeria Razeto Caceres Memorials for Democracy: Memorials in Chile after the Dictatorship Die Hu Public Spaces Produced for Privately Owned Urban Regeneration in London: Granary Square, Kings Cross Karen Jagodin Bringing the West home: The Encounter with Western Countries and Representations of Estonian Architects’ Experience in the 1950s-70s Angus Lowe Speaking before the Dead: Enunciative Modalities at Poplar Coroner’s Court and Mortuary Reiko Maeta Another Story, a Different History: Press Reporting of Harumi Apartments in Japan and the Occident Povilas Marozas Visaginas: Looking at the Town Through Photography Soledad Perez Martinez Clubs: Building Social Relations, Traces of Language, Behaviour and Ideology in Modern Architecture
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Michael Moynihan The Contingency Plan: Bringing it all to the Surface Haig Papazian Architecture in Low Resolution: The New Aesthetic of Post-Photographic Images of Buildings Sarah Parker Changing Ideals in Domesticity: How Ethnicity, Class and Postcolonial Identity are Represented in the Residential Architecture of Geoffrey Bawa Iga Perzyna Building ‘New Liberia’: Architecture in Service of Modernity and Power Christopher Purpura Holding Hands, Touching Alterity: Dance as Spatial Practice at Monte Verità, 1914 Jessica Ragusa Six views of Verrazano: An Architectural Exploration of Othmar Ammann’s Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Adam Robertson Messing Around with the Demolition Man: A study of the Ideology of Demolition and Renewal in Deptford in the 1960s and 1990s
Felix Rössl Rampant Mediocrity? Perception and Re-evaluation of the GDR’s Architectural Art after German Reunification Clelia Simpson Framing the Present: Walker Evans’ Photographs of Victorian Architecture (Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1933) Joanna Stauch Museum Ex Nihilo: Building in the Desert Gwen Webber Islands and Conduits: Conditions Producing Architecture and Reciprocal Cultural Spaces in British Council Offices Overseas