Volume 27, Issue 2-3
Encounters: Architectural Agency | Deljana Iossifova and Doreen Bernath
In this double issue of The Journal of Architecture, authors question the power of architectural agency and explore the role of architecture in socio-environmental transitions through the analysis of various forms of encounter. They ask if and how architecture has the power to transform entrenched ways of being and acting in this world. Just how much can architecture change and reconfigure existing social patterns? Conversely, how are changing social structures and relationships reflected in the transformation of architecture, and how and what it represents? These questions are, of course, tied with that of the role of ‘the architect’. The diversified endeavours in reconstructing, envisioning, translating, altering, and consolidating are interrogated through articles set out to examine architects who occupy specific positions in the history of architecture. By rewriting these historical instances in the light of today’s debates, precisely to re-evaluate their roles in relation to unsung influences and relations, unrecognised contextual processes and forms of work, the pedestal of authorship is replaced with the revelation of a necessary plural and multivalent practice — the many and the together in ‘the architect’.
Articles
Mariana de Oliveira Couto Muszyński
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Photograph Sources
‘Shining temples of health’: pithead bath architecture in Britain 1921–1939- Figure 1. Pithead baths at Gresford Colliery, North Wales, photographed in 1939, courtesy of The National Archives, Coal 80/468
‘Against the privatised, the preconditioned, and the asylum-like’: Frank van Klingeren’s challenge to open architecture- Figure 5. De Meerpaal after renovation, photographed by Jan Derwig, in Peter Karstkarel, ‘De Mythe van de Meerpaal’, De Architect, 20.2 (1989), 46–51 (p. 49), reproduced with permission
Primary School and Public Bathhouse of the Castle, Lisbon: a proposal of encounter and continuity- Figure 1. Existing blind south wall and garden on the right along Rua de Santa Cruz do Castelo, around 1898–1908, photographed by Machado & Sousa, courtesy of the Municipal Archive of Lisbon (PT/AMLSB/CMLSBAH/PCSP/003/FAN/002815)
Hans Döllgast, post-war reconstruction and modern architecture- Figure 1. Allerheiligen Hofkirche, Munich, timber truss over damaged remains installed by Hans Döllgast, 1971, photographed in 1987, courtesy of Michael Gaenßler
Tunisian works (1927–1936) of Joseph Hiriart: completing the architectural career of an Art Deco master- Figure 1. La Maîtrise pavilion, 1925, by Joseph Hiriart, Georges Tribout and Georges Beau, developed by Galeries Lafayette stores as part of the ‘International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts’, postcard, Wikimedia Commons
The Algerian Sphinx: Le Corbusier’s other colonialism in the M’Zab- Figure 1. Gabor Naphegyi as ‘The Author in the Desert’ on the cover of Ghardaia Or, Ninety Days Among the B’ni Mozab (New York, NY: G. P. Putnam, 1871), digitised by The British Library, part of the Creative Commons in the public domain
Urban churches in an infrasecular landscape: three case studies from the Anglican Diocese of London- Figure 1. Holy Trinity, Hampstead, Biscoe and Stanton Architects, 1978, photographed in 2021, courtesy of Sirj Photography
The contextual linkage: visual metaphors and analogies in recent Gulf museums’ architecture- Figure 1. Northeast elevation of Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2017, by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, photographed by the author, 2022
Interrogating photography as the site of architectural experience: reflections on photography in Der Baumeister- Figure 3. The photograph on the second page of the article on the Tugendhat Villa creates a pleasing contrast between the building and the trees, as the author points out in the captions, in [Anon.], ‘Die “Neue Linie” im alleinstehenden Einfamilienhaus’, Der Baumeister, 29.11 (1931), 422–31 (p. 423), courtesy of Digital Library of the Silesian University of Technology
