MA Architectural History Programme Director: Adrian Forty
Teaching staff: Iain Borden, Ben Campkin, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell, Peg Rawes, Amy Thomas , Robin Wilson
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2014
Architecture consists not only of buildings and projects, but also of the life that takes place within them, and of the ideas and discussions that they give rise to. It is the business of the MA Architectural History to interrogate these discussions, to extend them, and possibly to reframe them in terms of broader debates about culture, history and politics. We encourage our students to be experimental, to try out ideas from different fields, and to see whether bringing them to bear on architecture changes the way we think about buildings, cities and the life within them. Each one of the projects listed here is a small experiment, in which some particular architectural phenomenon has been put under the microscope and 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 one-year Masters programme in Architectural History, which has been running for 30 years, is partly a taught programme that prepares people for research, and partly a research programme, in which people undertake a self-selected and self-directed research project – two examples are included here. 2012-13 Anna Andersen Translation Transposition Translocation: The Development of a Phenomenology of Architecture by Christian NorbergSchulz, 1973-1980 Sarah Cheema Lubetkin’s Staircases: Symbols of Visual, Poetic and Social Encounters Simon England ‘Not a Church as you know it’: The Case of Cyril Mardall’s Finnish Seamen’s Mission Sevcan Ercan The Production of Space in Sites of Evictions Catarina Castro Henriques Church of the Sacred Heart: A Building of Resistance Adriana Keramida Strahl Reading the Skyline: A Semiotic Study of Framing London’s Views Carlo Menon The Missing Decade? Architectural Magazines of the 1990s Vyta Pivoriunate Designing the Man of the Future:
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Archigram’s Domestic Architecture, 1960-70 Mrinal Rammohan The Relative Freedom of Ambiguity: A Critical Examination of Satire in the Writings of Rem Koolhaas Ishita Shah Displacement of the Traditional: A Study of the Different Actors and their Voices in the Making of post-colonial Ahmedabad Eda Soyal Constructing Ambivalence: Modern Turkish Identity and Apartmentalisation in Nisantasi Istanbul Davide Spina America and the Sign Economy of Post-War Italy: The ENI Building in Rome Neli Vasileva On the Instability of Monuments. Monuments in Bulgaria from the period of the Communist Regime 1944-1989 Magd Zahran Spaces of Urban Revolution: An Investigation of Revolutionary Rehearsals, Spaces in Cairo’s El-Tahrir Square