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https://doi.org/10.31664/zu.2024.114.03
Charting the Recent Past: Digital Analysis for a Historiography of Modern Architecture
Marta García Carbonero
orcid.org/0000-0002-5395-0806
; Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Ana Esteban Maluenda
; Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Laura Sánchez Carrasco
orcid.org/0000-0003-0912-9516
; Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Mark Jarzombek
; Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Eliana Abu-Hamdi Murchie
; Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA
Abstract
Modern architecture has been shaped and described through a series of books that have attempted to outline its history almost from the beginning of the twentieth cen¬tury. These books have built the shifting canon of modern architecture, which should now be put into perspective by analyzing its historiography. While this has been done by qualitative methods, our research aims to examine the canonical texts on modern architecture through quan¬titative methods and digital tools to add a new layer to traditional historiographical readings. Focusing on the texts published since World War II, this paper compares in detail the seminal books by Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Reyner Banham, Charles Jencks, Kenneth Frampton, William Curtis and Alan Colquhoun to determine with objective data how modern architecture has been represented, which architects and buildings have been left out of these descriptions and the extent to which these narratives have increasingly incorporated local his¬tories to provide readers with a more nuanced account of modernism.
Keywords
modern architecture; historiography; history of architecture; digital humanities
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Publication date:
1.7.2024.
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