For three decades archaeologists have been thinking and writing about architecture in diverse and challenging ways: as action, through risk-taking activity, as dependent, in time, as atmosphere, through material culture, as landscape, on sensory terms. Slow architecture, animal architecture, quick architecture, messy architecture, living architecture - all of these are critiques of the discipline of Architecture’s knowledge of form. Architecture is now thinking and writing about archaeology on creative terms, but are archaeologists listening?This session is a celebration of the creative force of archaeological architectures and architectural archaeologies. Its focus is other ways of telling, writing, and drawing the built environment from the outside and through undisciplinary practices.
Organisers: Lesley McFadyen; Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck • Alessandro Zambelli; School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth
9:30 | Lesley McFadyen, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck; Alessandro Zambelli, School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth | Introduction
9:35 | Jonathan Hill, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL | A Monument to a Ruin
9:55 | Marianne Hem Eriksen, Department of Archaeology, University of Oslo | House-dreams of the Viking Age: Undisciplined explorations of architecture, personhood, and dreaming in the past
10:10 | Judit Ferencz, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL | The Graphic Novel as an Interdisciplinary Conservation Method in Architectural Heritage: A Book of Hours for Robin Hood Gardens
10:25 | Rose Ferraby, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge | Traces and Void: Architectural spaces and the archaeological imagination
10:40 | Lesley McFadyen, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck | Discussion
10:55 | - | BREAK
11:25 | Tanja Romankiewicz, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh | Metamorphosing Architecture
11:40 | Kevin Kay, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge | How Buildings Learn, Depend, and Extend: Drawing out the politics of space-making
11:55 | Dominic Walker, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL | The Orkney Island Re-Forestry Commission. A Monastic Building to Celebrate the Beginnings and Endings of Humanity
12:10 | Samantha Brummage, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck | Architecture and Artefacts in the Colne Valley: Place attachment in prehistory
12:25 | Kate Franklin, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London | Ambivalent Architectures: Infrastructure, hospitality and the power of care on the medieval Silk Road
12:40 | Alessandro Zambelli, School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth | Discussion
13:00 | - | END