Architectural Theory Review 20.1, issue: Terra Firma
The University of Sydney
Deadline: Dec 31, 2014
Call for Papers:
Architectural Theory Review 20.1 Terra firma
Editor Jennifer Ferng
180 million years ago, Australia was once enmeshed as part of the
Gondwanaland supercontinent, which included Africa, South America, and
Antarctica. Early antiquarian maps drawn by maritime explorers
envisioned the earth as a flat, infinite surface that unfurled
seamlessly into interconnected continents and oceans. A Genovese chart
named after Christopher Columbus depicted the Mediterranean region
including Portuguese discoveries encased into a perfect circle (1488).
The Earth as an object of study has long symbolized both physical
ground and more fluid cosmological conceptions of the world across
cultures.
Beyond methods of cartographic writing, the earth summons intellectual
forays into topographic descriptions, natural landscapes, and
scientific theories. In observing the geological state of the Earth,
Charles Lyell's uniformitarianism, which used the Great Flood as the
basis of catastrophic development, signaled an important precursor to
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. In this sense, slow-acting
processes such as erosion and sediment deposition, have been proposed
agents of geological change. Even John Ruskin and Viollet le Duc
delineated the physical outlines of mountain ranges such as the Alps as
perceptible signs of the forces underlying nature. Later
twentieth-century writers such as John McPhee in Annals of the Former
World mapped the American landscape through his road journeys across
the country in the company of famed geologists. More recently,
architectural history and theory as well as other humanities fields
have explored geology, ecology, and landscape studies in diverse forms
– one such notable trend is "landform building" where buildings have
begun to emulate natural formations. Moving away from a human-centred
world, approaches to deep history (Andrew Shyrock and Daniel Smail) and
big history (David Christian and Cynthia Stokes Brown) evoke the
immense scale of the past by beginning with the birth of the universe.
Continental drift and plate tectonics not only begin to re-position
human beings against the age of the earth but also summon global
theories as attempts to explain the presence of mountains, valleys,
volcanoes, and earthquakes.
Architectural Theory Review special issue 20.1 will address a wide
spectrum of historical and contemporary topics dealing with the earth
and its attendant representations throughout time. How have humanities
fields in architecture, art history, history, and literature redefined
the earth as point of polemics in light of cultural, scientific,
political and social revolutions? We invite submissions that examine
the following topics (but not limited to): cartography; architectural
design in relation to volatiledisasters; energy and matter; geological
thought in architecture; interior and external environments; mining and
industry; natural history; scales of history in relation to the
anthropocene era such as deep time; underground spaces.
The deadline for completed manuscripts is 31 December 2014. Please send
all enquiries to editor Jennifer Ferng at jennifer.ferng@sydney.edu.au.
All manuscripts can be uploaded via the journal website:
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=ratr20&page=instructions#.VFmg_vSUeKI
The University of Sydney
Deadline: Dec 31, 2014
Call for Papers:
Architectural Theory Review 20.1 Terra firma
Editor Jennifer Ferng
180 million years ago, Australia was once enmeshed as part of the
Gondwanaland supercontinent, which included Africa, South America, and
Antarctica. Early antiquarian maps drawn by maritime explorers
envisioned the earth as a flat, infinite surface that unfurled
seamlessly into interconnected continents and oceans. A Genovese chart
named after Christopher Columbus depicted the Mediterranean region
including Portuguese discoveries encased into a perfect circle (1488).
The Earth as an object of study has long symbolized both physical
ground and more fluid cosmological conceptions of the world across
cultures.
Beyond methods of cartographic writing, the earth summons intellectual
forays into topographic descriptions, natural landscapes, and
scientific theories. In observing the geological state of the Earth,
Charles Lyell's uniformitarianism, which used the Great Flood as the
basis of catastrophic development, signaled an important precursor to
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. In this sense, slow-acting
processes such as erosion and sediment deposition, have been proposed
agents of geological change. Even John Ruskin and Viollet le Duc
delineated the physical outlines of mountain ranges such as the Alps as
perceptible signs of the forces underlying nature. Later
twentieth-century writers such as John McPhee in Annals of the Former
World mapped the American landscape through his road journeys across
the country in the company of famed geologists. More recently,
architectural history and theory as well as other humanities fields
have explored geology, ecology, and landscape studies in diverse forms
– one such notable trend is "landform building" where buildings have
begun to emulate natural formations. Moving away from a human-centred
world, approaches to deep history (Andrew Shyrock and Daniel Smail) and
big history (David Christian and Cynthia Stokes Brown) evoke the
immense scale of the past by beginning with the birth of the universe.
Continental drift and plate tectonics not only begin to re-position
human beings against the age of the earth but also summon global
theories as attempts to explain the presence of mountains, valleys,
volcanoes, and earthquakes.
Architectural Theory Review special issue 20.1 will address a wide
spectrum of historical and contemporary topics dealing with the earth
and its attendant representations throughout time. How have humanities
fields in architecture, art history, history, and literature redefined
the earth as point of polemics in light of cultural, scientific,
political and social revolutions? We invite submissions that examine
the following topics (but not limited to): cartography; architectural
design in relation to volatiledisasters; energy and matter; geological
thought in architecture; interior and external environments; mining and
industry; natural history; scales of history in relation to the
anthropocene era such as deep time; underground spaces.
The deadline for completed manuscripts is 31 December 2014. Please send
all enquiries to editor Jennifer Ferng at jennifer.ferng@sydney.edu.au.
All manuscripts can be uploaded via the journal website:
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=ratr20&page=instructions#.VFmg_vSUeKI
Dr. EMAD HANI ISMAEEL
Ph.D. in Technologies for the Exploitation
of the Built Heritage .
Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Architecture
College of Engineering , University of Mosul
Mosul - Iraq .
E-mail: emadhanee@yahoo.com
Web Site: https://mosul.academia.edu/EmadAlallaf
Tel : +964 (0)770 164 93 74
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