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Review: <i>Enseigner l’architecture aux Beaux-Arts (1863–1968): Entre reformes et traditions</i>

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians · 2023-06-01

Book Review| June 01 2023 Review: Enseigner l’architecture aux Beaux-Arts (1863–1968): Entre réformes et traditions Amandine Diener Enseigner l’architecture aux Beaux-Arts (1863–1968): Entre réformes et traditions Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2022, 420 pp., 125 b/w illus. €32, ISBN 9782753582799 Barry Bergdoll Barry Bergdoll Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2023) 82 (2): 216–217. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.2.216 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Barry Bergdoll; Review: Enseigner l’architecture aux Beaux-Arts (1863–1968): Entre réformes et traditions. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2023; 82 (2): 216–217. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.2.216 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search That an upsurge of interest in the history of architectural education at the École des Beaux-Arts should have marked the fiftieth anniversary of the 1968 student protests that catalyzed the dismantling of the French state’s centuries-old centralized system of architectural education might take some by surprise. After all, renewed interest in the school during the 1970s was primarily an Anglo-American affair, centered on the instantly notorious 1975 exhibition The Architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In France, memories of 1968 were too fresh. Plans to bring MoMA’s show to Paris to finish its tour at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (after a stopover at the National Gallery of Canada), along with a proposed French translation of curator Arthur Drexler’s monumental catalogue (published only in 1977), all came to naught. The seminal essays in Drexler’s volume by the American trio of Richard Chaffee, David... You do not currently have access to this content.

Conserving the Uncollectable? Museum Exhibitions and Preservation Advocacy, 1942–1980

Future Anterior Journal of Historic Preservation History Theory and Criticism · 2023-06-01

Abstract: In 1975, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) staged the instantly infamous exhibition The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, generally associated with Arthur Drexler's seeming turn away from the museum's three decades of advocacy for modernism, and to his inadvertent opening to postmodernism. The conscious set of overlapping aims was to offer a critique of urban renewal, via a celebration of the so-called Beaux-Arts city, and—what is too rarely acknowledged—to advocate for preservation, in the wake of the loss of New York's Pennsylvania Station a decade earlier. Museums played a significant role from their earliest history in preservation of architecture whole or in fragment, but the role of exhibitions in advocacy awaits its historian. From the late nineteenth-century open-air museums saved buildings by moving them into new plein-air settings; and the fashion for period rooms extended the notion of a collectible fragment to a component space of a disappeared architecture. But after World War II a new chapter in historic preservation opened with museological advocacy for the preservation in situ—outside the galleries of the museum—of nineteenth-and twentieth-century architecture and urban fabric. In recent years much has been written about the history of the preservation movement and, a veritable flood of studies has looked at the history of exhibitions. Yet the intersection of these two histories has received scant attention. This essay argues that a series of major institutions (notably New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in London and, from the 1970s, the Venice Biennale) played an important role in municipal and national preservation of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century architecture, a forerunner in ways of the efforts of groups such as Docomomo in recent years.

Tribute to Pauline Saliga

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians · 2023

• Art
• Archaeology
• Art history

Other| June 01 2023 Tribute to Pauline Saliga Barry Bergdoll, Barry Bergdoll Columbia University SAH President, 2006–8 Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Anne Hill Bird, Anne Hill Bird SAH STAFF Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Helena Dean, Helena Dean SAH STAFF Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Beth Eifrig, Beth Eifrig SAH STAFF Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Catherine Boland Erkkila, Catherine Boland Erkkila SAH STAFF Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Carolyn Garrett, Carolyn Garrett SAH STAFF Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Karen Kingsley, Karen Kingsley SAH STAFF Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Christopher Kirbabas, Christopher Kirbabas SAH STAFF Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Katerina Bong, Katerina Bong University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Charlette Caldwell, Charlette Caldwell Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Sben Korsh, Sben Korsh University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Leslie Lodwick, Leslie Lodwick University of California, Santa Cruz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Antonio Pacheco, Antonio Pacheco Massachusetts Institute of Technology SAH Graduate Student Advisory Committee Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Sandra Bradley, Sandra Bradley American Council of Learned Societies Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Joy Connolly, Joy Connolly American Council of Learned Societies Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar James Shulman, James Shulman American Council of Learned Societies Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Steven Wheatley, Steven Wheatley American Council of Learned Societies Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Kenneth Breisch, Kenneth Breisch University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar James Buckley, James Buckley SAH Interim Executive Director Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Swati Chattopadhyay, Swati Chattopadhyay University of California, Santa Barbara JSAH Editor, 2012–14 Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Amanda Roth Clark, Amanda Roth Clark Whitworth University SAH Chapter Liaison Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Valentina Davila, Valentina Davila JENNIFER TATE SAH IDEAS Committee Co-Chairs Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Charles L. Davis, II, Charles L. Davis, II University of Texas at Austin Co-Chair, SAH Race and Architectural History Affiliate Group Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Dianne Harris, Dianne Harris University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Lynne Horiuchi, Lynne Horiuchi Independent scholar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Itohan Osayimwese, Itohan Osayimwese Brown University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Richard Longstreth, Richard Longstreth George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Keith N. Morgan, Keith N. Morgan Boston University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Patricia A. Morton, Patricia A. Morton University of California, Riverside JSAH Editor, 2015–17, and SAH President, 2022–24 Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Ken Tadashi Oshima, Ken Tadashi Oshima University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Cynthia Weese, Cynthia Weese Weese Langley Weese Architects Ltd. Washington University in St. Louis, emerita Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Victoria Young Victoria Young University of St. Thomas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2023) 82 (2): 110–129. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.2.110 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Barry Bergdoll, Anne Hill Bird, Helena Dean, Beth Eifrig, Catherine Boland Erkkila, Carolyn Garrett, Karen Kingsley, Christopher Kirbabas, Katerina Bong, Charlette Caldwell, Sben Korsh, Leslie Lodwick, Antonio Pacheco, Sandra Bradley, Joy Connolly, James Shulman, Steven Wheatley, Kenneth Breisch, James Buckley, Swati Chattopadhyay, Amanda Roth Clark, Valentina Davila, Charles L. Davis, Dianne Harris, Lynne Horiuchi, Itohan Osayimwese, Richard Longstreth, Keith N. Morgan, Patricia A. Morton, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Cynthia Weese, Victoria Young; Tribute to Pauline Saliga. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2023; 82 (2): 110–129. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.2.110 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Pauline Saliga was so much of a behind-the-scenes enabler for other people’s careers and scholarship that we too often forget that she was an accomplished architectural historian and curator in her own right, having worked on important exhibitions under John Zukowsky at the Art Institute of Chicago before the Society of Architectural Historians had the incredible good fortune of snagging her as executive director. The time could not have been more propitious, for the Society had just recently moved from Philadelphia to Chicago to take up residence in a landmark building. Scaling up from a small foundation office hidden in a Philadelphia row house, the new office matched the ambitions of a society that was ever more expansive in its publishing and range of activities and outreach, going digital even as it became steward to one of Chicago’s most important late nineteenth-century houses. Pauline was no longer moving drawings and... You do not currently have access to this content.

THE MUSEUM AS ADVOCATE OF MODERNIST PRESERVATION: A CASE STUDY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

2022-05-23

Afterword

University of Virginia Press eBooks · 2022-12-18

Mobile, portable, démontable… Rendre l’architecture itinérante

Perspective · 2022

• Computer Science
• Computer Science

« Mobile ou immobile, tout ce qui occupe l’espace appartient au domaine de l’architecture » : loin d’être anodine, la définition extensive que propose Auguste Perret peut aujourd’hui encore être interprétée de plusieurs manières. Tendant à nier la démarcation entre les édifices et les artefacts qui les habitent ou les environnent, elle illustre l’idéal de cohérence du cadre de vie cher aux architectes les plus enclins à conforter leur champ de compétence. Cette formule peut également exprimer...

Le modernisme en maquette. Des origines paradoxales de la collection de maquettes d'architecture du Museum of Modern Art de New York

Livraisons d histoire de l architecture · 2020

• Humanities
• Art
• Humanities

L'histoire complexe et assez paradoxale de l'exposition et de la collection des maquettes au sein du département de l'Architecture et du Design au Museum of Modern Art à New York a commencé avec la première exposition de 1932, exposition qui a défini le « style international ». Durant plus de huit décennies qui ont suivi, la philosophie du département a varié, alors qu'il faisait la distinction entre les maquettes issues du processus de conception des architectes et celles créées a posteriori à des fins d'exposition. Pendant quelques décennies fut poursuivi de manière ponctuelle un programme vaguement défini de création d'un canon de l'architecture moderne, au moyen de nouvelles maquettes créées à dessein et suivant une échelle cohérente, bien qu'au cours des dernières années, la conservation des maquettes acquises auprès d'agences d'architectes et en lien avec le processus réel de conception du projet, ait été préférée. Une recherche reste à faire pour compléter l'histoire de certaines de ces maquettes collectées par le plus ancien département d'architecture d'un musée d'art au monde.

Klotz in America and <i>architectura’s</i> early years

Architectura · 2020-12-01

Barry Bergdoll. Review of "The Architecture of Art History: A Historiography" by Mark Crinson and Richard J. Williams.

CAA Reviews · 2020-11-06