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Learning From the Past: What Is Black Heritage? Future Anterior Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Charlette Caldwell, Anna Gasha
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Learning From the PastWhat Is Black Heritage? Charlette Caldwell (bio) and Anna Gasha (bio) Introduction Since the summer of 2020, the surge in mainstream media coverage of structural racial inequities that continue to plague the United States—particularly on, but not limited to, the brutal police murders of Black Americans—has prompted
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The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen. To Which is Annexed the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Containing a Narrative of the Yellow Fever in the Year of our Lord 1793: With an Address to the People of Colour in the United States by Richard Allen (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Charlette Caldwell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen. To Which is Annexed the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Containing a Narrative of the Yellow Fever in the Year of our Lord 1793: With an Address to the People of Colour in the United States by
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Blake, or, The Huts of America by Martin Robison Delany (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Charlette Caldwell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Blake, or, The Huts of America by Martin Robison Delany Charlette Caldwell (bio) Blake, or, The Huts of America Martin Robison Delany [The corrected version]. Edited and with an introduction by Jerome McGann, [2017], 1859–61. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Seen here is one of several large commemorative
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A Voice from the South: By A Black Woman of the South by Anna Julia Cooper (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Charlette Caldwell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: A Voice from the South: By A Black Woman of the South by Anna Julia Cooper Charlette Caldwell (bio) A Voice from the South: By A Black Woman of the South Anna Julia Cooper Xenia, Ohio: Aldine Printing House, 1892. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. A portrait of Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964), who was an activist
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The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition by Ida B. Wells et al (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Anna Gasha
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition by Ida B. Wells et al Anna Gasha (bio) The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, and F. L. Barnett Chicago, 1893. Click for larger view View full resolution
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Anna Gasha
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson Anna Gasha (bio) The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson Boston: Sherman, French & Co., 1912. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. James Weldon Johnson’s former residence, 187 West 135th Street (Apartment Building). Library of
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"Heritage" in Color by Countee Cullen (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Jorge Otero-Pailos
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: “Heritage” in Color by Countee Cullen Jorge Otero-Pailos (bio) Countee Cullen “Heritage,” in Color. New York: Harper & Bros., 1925. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. The Salem United Methodist Church in Harlem, New York, was the site of numerous events for central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Among
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Negro Life in New York's Harlem: A Lively Picture of a Popular and Interesting Section by Wallace Thurman (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Anna Gasha
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Negro Life in New York’s Harlem: A Lively Picture of a Popular and Interesting Section by Wallace Thurman Anna Gasha (bio) Negro Life in New York’s Harlem: A Lively Picture of a Popular and Interesting Section Wallace Thurman Little Blue Book 494, edited by E. Haldeman-Julius. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications,
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From Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir by Mamie Garvin Fields and Karen E. Fields (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Anna Gasha
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: From Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir by Mamie Garvin Fields and Karen E. Fields Anna Gasha (bio) From Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir Mamie Garvin Fields and Karen E. Fields Copyright © 1983 by Mamie Gavin Fields with Karen Fields. Reprinted by permission of Free Press, a Division of Simon &
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Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice: Voices from the Archives by Marc Treib (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Marc Treib
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice: Voices from the Archives by Marc Treib Marc Treib (bio) Marc Treib Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice: Voices from the Archives Mari Lending and Erik Langdalen Lars Müller / Pax Forlag, 2021. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Giardini
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Bibliography and Further Reading Future Anterior Pub Date : 2023-05-07
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Bibliography and Further Reading ________ Primary Literature Douglass, Frederick. “‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ (1852).” In The Speeches of Frederick Douglass: A Critical Edition, edited by John R. McKivigan, Julie Husband, and Heather L. Kaufman, 55–92. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Garvey, Amy Jacques, editor
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Guest Editors' Introduction: Designing the Future of Preservation Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Fallon S. Aidoo, Daniel A. Barber
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Guest Editors' IntroductionDesigning the Future of Preservation Fallon S. Aidoo (bio) and Daniel A. Barber (bio) Although "'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" has served as a catchy public education tool for American environmental activists in the recent past, adaptation of the built environment to the challenges of climate change has deeper, broader
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Superfund to EcoDistrict: Progressive Preservation for a Net-Zero Neighborhood Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Jessica L. Morris
Abstract: Social cohesion at the heart of neighborhoods can be a powerful catalyst for change. It can steward the development of governance that supports balanced approaches to achieving and maintaining progressive social, cultural and environmental goals. As a cultural development strategy, the district scale can carry systems-level benefits of advancing infrastructure strategies and may offer a scale
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Preservation Themes in Mass Housing's Retrofit: Climate and Energy in Tor Bella Monaca, Rome Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Francesco Cianfarani, Michele Morganti
Abstract: Nowadays, urban climate change and energy efficiency of the built environment are major challenges worldwide. Mitigating the main anthropogenic factors at the base of climate change and adapting to the inevitable consequences become urgent. In a climate-responsive and energy retrofit perspective, we focus on contemporary debates, best practices and design strategies regarding the preservation
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Graves's Portland Building, 2020: Preservation as Transformation Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Joseph Siry
Abstract: The Portland Public Services Building, designed by Michael Graves from 1979 and opened in 1982, is central to Postmodern Classicism in the United States. Although historically recent, the building's mechanical and material systems have been superseded in the ensuing decades. Meticulous, comprehensive assessments led to the phased renewal completed in 2020. Interiors were notorious for their
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Retrofitting the Monument of Commerce: Unilever House, London Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Juliana Kei
Abstract: When Unilever House London was completed in 1931 it was celebrated, in The Times newspaper, as "The Monument of Commerce." This paper examines its two large-scale retrofitting exercises: first by the multi-disciplinary design practice Pentagram (1980–83) and then by the international architectural office Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF) (2005–2008). I examine the different approaches taken by Pentagram
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Mies à jour: The Nuns' Island Gas Station as a Transitional Object Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Kai Woolner-Pratt
Abstract: How might we contend with the cast-off (infra)structures of a petroculture that has an uncertain future? Just off the shore of the Island of Montreal, the community of Nuns' Island was urbanized by Chicago-based Metropolitan Structures in the 1960s. As part of the petroculturalization of what had up to that point been a pastoral landscape, Imperial Oil commissioned the Office of Mies van
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Selling Comfort: Volkart Brothers and Origins of Air Conditioning in India (1923–1954) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Priya Jain
Abstract: This article offers an analysis of the development of air conditioning in India in the mid-twentieth century, from the vantage point of one of its largest trading firms, the Swiss merchant house of Volkart Brothers. It reveals that the marketing strategies and air conditioning installations by the firm extended and intensified exclusionary colonial notions about race, climate and civilization
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Roundtable Discussion: Retrofitting Research: A Global Conversation on Challenges and Opportunities Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Roundtable DiscussionRetrofitting Research: A Global Conversation on Challenges and Opportunities The following conversation was recorded over Zoom on February 18, 2021, bringing together most of the contributors to this issue of Future Anterior. fallon samuels aidoo: I'm so glad that all of you were able to spend this time with us today
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Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies ed. by Marie-Theres Albert, and; Going Beyond: Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies No. 2 ed. by Marie-Theres Albert et al. (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Susan M. Ross
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies ed. by Marie-Theres Albert, and; Going Beyond: Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies No. 2 ed. by Marie-Theres Albert et al. Susan M. Ross (bio) Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies Marie-Theres Albert, Editor Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015 Going Beyond:
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Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges by June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Douglas R. Appler
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges by June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones Douglas R. Appler (bio) Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021 June Williamson and
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Art Submission Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 David Hartt
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Art Submission David Hartt (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Carolina I [End Page 159] Click for larger view View full resolution Carolina III [End Page 160] Click for larger view View full resolution Carolina IV [End Page 161] Click for larger view View full resolution Camuy II Click for larger view View full resolution
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Guest Editors' Introduction: Designing the Future of Preservation Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Fallon S. Aidoo, Daniel A. Barber
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Guest Editors' IntroductionDesigning the Future of Preservation Fallon S. Aidoo (bio) and Daniel A. Barber (bio) Although "'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" has served as a catchy public education tool for American environmental activists in the recent past, adaptation of the built environment to the challenges of climate change has deeper, broader
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Superfund to EcoDistrict: Progressive Preservation for a Net-Zero Neighborhood Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Jessica L. Morris
Abstract: Social cohesion at the heart of neighborhoods can be a powerful catalyst for change. It can steward the development of governance that supports balanced approaches to achieving and maintaining progressive social, cultural and environmental goals. As a cultural development strategy, the district scale can carry systems-level benefits of advancing infrastructure strategies and may offer a scale
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Preservation Themes in Mass Housing's Retrofit: Climate and Energy in Tor Bella Monaca, Rome Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Francesco Cianfarani, Michele Morganti
Abstract: Nowadays, urban climate change and energy efficiency of the built environment are major challenges worldwide. Mitigating the main anthropogenic factors at the base of climate change and adapting to the inevitable consequences become urgent. In a climate-responsive and energy retrofit perspective, we focus on contemporary debates, best practices and design strategies regarding the preservation
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Graves's Portland Building, 2020: Preservation as Transformation Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Joseph Siry
Abstract: The Portland Public Services Building, designed by Michael Graves from 1979 and opened in 1982, is central to Postmodern Classicism in the United States. Although historically recent, the building's mechanical and material systems have been superseded in the ensuing decades. Meticulous, comprehensive assessments led to the phased renewal completed in 2020. Interiors were notorious for their
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Retrofitting the Monument of Commerce: Unilever House, London Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Juliana Kei
Abstract: When Unilever House London was completed in 1931 it was celebrated, in The Times newspaper, as "The Monument of Commerce." This paper examines its two large-scale retrofitting exercises: first by the multi-disciplinary design practice Pentagram (1980–83) and then by the international architectural office Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF) (2005–2008). I examine the different approaches taken by Pentagram
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Mies à jour: The Nuns' Island Gas Station as a Transitional Object Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Kai Woolner-Pratt
Abstract: How might we contend with the cast-off (infra)structures of a petroculture that has an uncertain future? Just off the shore of the Island of Montreal, the community of Nuns' Island was urbanized by Chicago-based Metropolitan Structures in the 1960s. As part of the petroculturalization of what had up to that point been a pastoral landscape, Imperial Oil commissioned the Office of Mies van
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Selling Comfort: Volkart Brothers and Origins of Air Conditioning in India (1923–1954) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Priya Jain
Abstract: This article offers an analysis of the development of air conditioning in India in the mid-twentieth century, from the vantage point of one of its largest trading firms, the Swiss merchant house of Volkart Brothers. It reveals that the marketing strategies and air conditioning installations by the firm extended and intensified exclusionary colonial notions about race, climate and civilization
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Roundtable Discussion: Retrofitting Research: A Global Conversation on Challenges and Opportunities Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Roundtable DiscussionRetrofitting Research: A Global Conversation on Challenges and Opportunities The following conversation was recorded over Zoom on February 18, 2021, bringing together most of the contributors to this issue of Future Anterior. fallon samuels aidoo: I'm so glad that all of you were able to spend this time with us today
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Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies ed. by Marie-Theres Albert, and; Going Beyond: Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies No. 2 ed. by Marie-Theres Albert et al. (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Susan M. Ross
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies ed. by Marie-Theres Albert, and; Going Beyond: Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies No. 2 ed. by Marie-Theres Albert et al. Susan M. Ross (bio) Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies Marie-Theres Albert, Editor Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015 Going Beyond:
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Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges by June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Douglas R. Appler
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges by June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones Douglas R. Appler (bio) Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021 June Williamson and
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Art Submission Future Anterior Pub Date : 2022-08-04 David Hartt
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Art Submission David Hartt (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Carolina I [End Page 159] Click for larger view View full resolution Carolina III [End Page 160] Click for larger view View full resolution Carolina IV [End Page 161] Click for larger view View full resolution Camuy II Click for larger view View full resolution
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From Data Collection to Praxis: Heritage Conservation Fieldwork in the Twenty-first Century Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Brent R. Fortenberry
Abstract: Fieldwork in heritage conservation research and teaching encompasses a broad array of activities, from architectural surveys and materials conservation to stakeholder workshops and digital mapping. It is the translational space where research questions and desired impact, value systems, and interpretations are generated. It is the space and moment of interaction, reflection, and analysis
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Just Fieldwork: Exploring the Vernacular in the African American Community in Portland Oregon's Albina District Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-10-12 James Michael Buckley
Abstract: Preservationists in the United States increasingly seek ways to serve minority communities who have been underserved by the profession. Because the existing preservation infrastructure emphasizes building fabric over historical experience, this system may not serve minority communities where less tangible aspects of heritage carry greater importance than historic building fabric. Vernacular
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Historic Preservation Design: Using Ethnographic-based Fieldwork to Introduce Theory and History in the Architecture Studio Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Paul Hardin Kapp
Abstract: Fieldwork has been and will continue to be a foundational component in preservation education. It is the means in which preservationists’ study and document a historic resource. Documentation and communication of fieldwork findings are foremost in preservation practice, specifically in the form of historic structures reports, cultural surveys, and most notably in historic preservation architecture—design
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Making the Invisible Visible through Digital Technologies in Fieldwork Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Andrew Johnston
Abstract: The rise of digital technologies in heritage-related fieldwork offers new potentials and new challenges for digital preservation, research, and scholarship. Potentials include speed, accuracy, and new opportunities for visualization, while challenges include mastering the necessary technological expertise to collect data, finding and funding the experts in technologies that support the collecting
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Applied and Reapplied Preservation Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-10-12 John H. Stubbs
Abstract: Architectural preservation has been a participatory activity all along. This is because of the universal and perpetual need for maintaining and repairing older structures. The commonsense of repairing, when possible, rather than replacing anew has instinctive appeal. It almost always means a savings of time, materials and money. Successful ingredients for translating preservation theory and
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The New Apprentice: Teaching Digital Technologies in Collaborative Historic Preservation Projects Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Amy Van de Riet, Keith Van de Riet
Abstract: In historic preservation research and practice, accurate documentation in the field is a priority for proper record of historic elements, particularly in the case of using this documentation to inform replication of building components. The integration of photogrammetry for purposes of documentation is becoming increasingly useful as it provides more accurate, cost-effective and considerably
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Doing Fieldwork with Community Residents: Mapping Spaces of Everyday Resistance in Milwaukee's Northside Neighborhoods Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Arijit Sen
Abstract: Similar to many inner-city neighborhoods in industrial towns of the American Midwest, Milwaukee’s Northside neighborhoods experienced rapid deterioration after the Second World War. Racial segregation and unjust policies negatively impacted poor African American neighborhoods. Interested in documenting history from the point of view of marginalized residents, we engaged community members
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Unearthing the Unrecorded: Memory, History, and Urban Erasure in Brixton Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Linda Zhang, Tyler Fox
Abstract: In 2015, the independent businesses housed in the railway arches of Brixton Station were served eviction notices and forced to abandon their livelihoods so their spaces could be refurbished. In response, we set out to map the history of their inhabitants; but what we discovered was that the market in the Brixton Arches has existed largely within an official void. None of its history centrally
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Learning from Grosvenor Square: Preservation and Remembrance in London's "Little America" Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Michael Belding, Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock
Abstract: In the fall of 2016, a mixed-major cadre of students in an historic preservation class at Iowa State University traveled to London for ten days to participate in fieldwork at the soon-to-bevacated United States chancery at Grosvenor Square, Eero Saarinen’s modernist 1960 landmark. While the focus of the class was the tools and techniques for preservation documentation, the students’ perspective
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Preservation that Builds Equity, Art that Constructs Just Places Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Jennifer Minner
Abstract: The built environment in US cities displays uneven geographies and patterns of spatial exclusion. Preservation, as a profession that cares for places and communities should help to redress these inequities. Likewise, socially engaged art and creative practices can act as catalysts for transformative change. This article describes three community engaged courses in which students drew connections
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Dust & Data: Traces of the Bauhaus Across 100 Years ed. by Ines Weizman (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Anthony Vidler
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dust & Data: Traces of the Bauhaus Across 100 Years ed. by Ines Weizman Anthony Vidler (bio) Dust & Data: Traces of the Bauhaus Across 100 Years Ines Weizman, editor Spector Books, 2019 Dust is a lived environment in which human materials, building materials, airborne substances, materials from animals, and molecular substances
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Introduction to The Notre-Dame Effect Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Jorge Otero-Pailos
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction to The Notre-Dame Effect Jorge Otero-Pailos (bio) The essays in this special issue of Future Anterior bring the fire that ravaged the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on April 15, 2019, into a larger intellectual context and challenge us to consider the effects and ramifications of the calamity within the discipline of preservation
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In Flagrante: On Some Burning Questions for Restoration Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Aron Vinegar
Abstract: Like a phoenix from the flames, the nineteenth-century French restorer and architectural theorist Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s name was resurrected from the ashes of the fire that consumed Notre-Dame cathedral on the evening of April 15, 2019. But the invocation of Viollet-le-Duc’s legacy in the aftermath of the burning of Notre-Dame Cathedral was, more often than not, a firewall against engaging
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Churches and States (Updated) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Richard Wittman
Abstract: The public anguish, debates, recriminations, and political struggles that have come in the wake of the April 2019 fire that destroyed the roof and spire of Notre-Dame in Paris are not without precedent. The present essay—a revised and extended version of a text first published in September 2019 in Places Journal—relates the post-fire saga of Notre-Dame to an uncannily similar (if rarely noted)
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Technology to Freeze Time at Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc's Notre-Dame of Paris: Learning from the Past for the Cathedral of the Future Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Lindsay Cook
Abstract: This article considers the use of plaster casting, an artistic technology, and silicatization, a scientific technology, in Jean-Baptiste Lassus and Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc’s nineteenth-century restoration of Notre-Dame of Paris. Plaster casting, practiced widely in academic artistic circles in the century prior to the restoration campaign, facilitated the work of the sculptors who
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Notre-Dame de Paris in 2020: Between Endangerment Sensibility and Cultural Heritage Task Force Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Dominique Poulot
Abstract: The Notre-Dame disaster caused a worldwide emotional response, fueled by social networks and the media; it also generated a sudden and considerable public generosity. In response, the French government has devised a specific law, one in favor of an unprecedented modernization for restoring heritage, combined with a task force under the supervision of a retired army general. Subsequently,
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In Notre-Dame, We Find a Heritage That Invites Us to Breathe and Reflect: A Spire Competition Is the Wrong Approach Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Jorge Otero-Pailos
Abstract: Published four days after the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral, this opinion piece rebuked the hasty decision by then French President Emmanuel Macron to replace the spire destroyed in the conflagration with one in a contemporary style. Otero-Pailos took particular issue with the process announced by the French government to hold an international competition to award an architect all of the decision-making
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On the Gothic Edits of Notre Dame de Paris Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Emily L. Spratt
Abstract: In the immediate aftermath of the devastating fire that ravaged Notre-Dame de Paris on April 15–16, 2019, the French government announced a competition for the reconstruction of the cathedral’s spire. This article examines several preliminary plans from architects and designers responding to the April 17 call for proposals and the notable effect of digital technologies in the realization
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The Restoration and Reconstruction of Notre-Dame of Paris: A Test for the Profession Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Francesco Bandarin
Abstract: On April 15, 2019, the cathedral of Notre-Dame of Paris suffered a major disaster: a fire destroyed its eight-hundred-year-old roof, the nineteenth-century spire, and threatened other parts of the building. An effective intervention by the firemen managed to contain the damages and saved the other parts of the cathedral from destruction. The disaster caused huge emotional reactions throughout
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Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction by Mari Lending (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Joseph L. Clarke
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction by Mari Lending Joseph L. Clarke (bio) Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction Mari Lending Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017 Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Cover of Special Committee to Enlarge Collection
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Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe by Victor Plahte Tschudi (review) Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-08-05 David Karmon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe by Victor Plahte Tschudi David Karmon (bio) Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe Victor Plahte Tschudi New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017 The title of Victor Plahte Tschudi’s Baroque Antiquity joins two period terms
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High-Tech Heritage: Planes, Photography, and the Ancient Past in the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-03-18 Sarah Griswold
Abstract: The French occupation and governance of mandate Syria and Lebanon after World War I coincided with the rise of aviation as a tool of intelligence gathering. Surveillance from the sky served both military and scientific objectives for the French deployed to the region, and the development of “aerial archaeology” soon captured the fascination of experts and the public. This article examines
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Heritage, Preservation, and Decolonization: Entanglements, Consequences, Action? Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-03-18 William Carruthers
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Heritage, Preservation, and Decolonization: Entanglements, Consequences, Action? William Carruthers (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. The Ramses II statue from Mit Rahina, Egypt, just after its installation outside Cairo’s Ramses Station in the 1950s. Photograph by Van-Leo, courtesy of the American University in
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Heritage Imagery and Temporal Space in the Sultanate of Oman: Cultivating Modes of Ethical Living through State Media Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-03-18 Amal Sachedina
Abstract: Since its inception as a nation-state in 1970, Oman’s expanding heritage industry—exemplified by the boom in museums, exhibitions, cultural festivals, and the restoration of more than one hundred forts, castles, and citadels—fashions a distinctly national geography and a territorial imaginary. Material forms of old mosques, restored forts, museumified living settlements, and national symbols
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Decolonizing South Asia through Heritage-and Nation-Building Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-03-18 Sudeshna Guha
Abstract: This essay builds upon the premise that heritage and decolonization share histories of obsessive emphases upon exclusive, unique and fiercely acquisitive identities. Considering that the scholarship of decolonization increasingly fixes attention upon the displays of the colonial in the realms of the former imperial powers, the aims here are to shift attention to the curation of the national
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The Afterlife of Fascist Colonial Architecture: A Critical Manifesto Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-03-18 Emilio Distretti, Alessandro Petti
Abstract: The listing of the capital of Eritrea Asmara as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017 has raised a series of contradictory questions around Italian fascist colonial heritage: is the nomination part of the longer path of Eritrea’s decolonization and reappropriation of its colonial history or does this lead to the celebration of modernist architecture and its entanglements with colonialism and
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City, Country, Agency Future Anterior Pub Date : 2021-03-18 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Abstract: Postcolonial philosopher Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak delivered the little-known “City, Country, Agency” as the keynote presen tation at the Theatres of Decolonization: [Architecture] Agency [Urbanism] Conference held at Chandigarh, India, in 1995. Republished after twenty-five years as a historical document in this issue of Future Anterior with contemporary commentary by the author, this keynote