Valences of Historiography

The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography. Each chapter probes the state of contemporary theorization of architecture histories, working toward the theme of critical re-writing of history.

Auteur

Gevork Hartoonian is Emeritus Professor of Architectural History at the University of Canberra, Australia, and holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has taught in American universities, including the Pratt Institute and Columbia University, NYC. Hartoonian is, most recently, the author Mies Contra Le Corbusier: The Frame Inevitable (Routledge 2024), Towards a Critique of Architecture's Contemporaneity: 4 Essays (Routledge 2023), Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on Modern Architecture 1980 (2022) and Time, History and Architecture: Essays on Critical Historiography (Routledge 2020/2018). He is, most recently, the editor of The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture: A Debate (Routledge 2023). Hartoonian's previous publications include, among others, Architecture and Spectacle: A Critique (Routledge 2016/2012) and The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian (2013). The Korean and Thai editions of Ontology of Construction (1994) were published in 2010 and 2017.