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Institut für Kunst und Architektur Institute for Art and Architecture
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IKA Lecture Series 26/27 Curated by Angelika Schnell
Theories of Teaching Architectural History
27.10. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Kub Technical University Istanbul Faculty of Architecture
Beyond the Alternative Approache Teaching A History
30.11. Dr. Yuri Primar Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Rome
A Female Polymat Baroque Rome: Plautilla Bricci and Absent Legacy
14.12. Prof. Dr. Kathleen James-Chakrabor University College Dublin School of Art History
Expanding Agency: How and Why to Wri More Inclusive Histo ries of Architecture
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The teaching of architectural history has changed in recent years and decades. Admittedly, a more diverse approach to architectural history does not merely involve, for example, incorporating more female or nonEuropean perspectives and projects; it must also break new ground in terms of epistemology. Criticism has been levelled at the humanist thinking underpinning European methodology, in which ‘the role of the subject vis-à-vis the object has been that of an originating agent of meaning, unique, centralised and authoritative,’1 and which therefore favours periodisation, monographs, and analyses of form and style. But what does methodologically nuanced, pluralistic research in architectural history look like? How does it work in practice? Can only contemporary theories such as gender, queer, and de- and postcolonial studies grasp their approaches? What does the epistemology of modernity nevertheless achieve? Or is the concept of academic research changing – and with it the entire epistemic system upon which architectural history also rests? Do AI models help or hinder this reorientation? And how can these considerations be incorporated into teaching in concrete terms? These and other questions are to be raised – and perhaps also answered – in the Lecture Series for the 2026/2027 academic year at the Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Architectural historians from various backgrounds who are engaged with these questions will be invited to present and discuss their research approaches from this perspective. 1
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Lectures in English 7pm, R211a Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Institute for Art and Architecture Schillerplatz 3 1010 Vienna