Volume 65 of Architectural History
Volume 65 of Architectural History has now gone to press.
The online version has been uploaded on the Cambridge University Press website
Link to latest issue with the hard-copy version printed and mailed to members of the SAHGB in the coming weeks.
Summary
Following on from the innovation of the ‘special collection’ on the American Renaissance in volume 64, this issue again includes a special collection. The subject this time is ‘Architecture and Bureaucracy’ – a central theme of 20c architecture across the planet. As well as the UK (specifically, the London County Council), articles address topics from western and eastern Europe (Belgium, Sweden, Italy and the German Democratic Republic) as well as Asia (Turkey).
In addition to the special collection, regular articles in this issue address topics ranging from Palladio’s legendary Villa Rotonda (‘Neither Perfect nor Ideal’, according to the title of the article), through the 19c Gothic Revival in Australia and Europe, to the period after world war two, with Ghana in the 1950s and Scotland in the 1960s. Also included is the Hawksmoor Prize Essay 2021, a reassessment of Joseph Bonomi the Elder – an architect often ignored today but so famous in his lifetime that he figured in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.
This issue also sees the revival of ‘Shorter Notices’, much shorter articles presenting a new archival discovery – in this case, the arrival in Britain at the turn of the 18c of the unpublished manuscript of Sebastiano Serlio’s Sixth Book on Architecture.
Also included are more than a dozen in-depth reviews of books contributed by leading scholars from the UK and overseas. Topics range from marble in antiquity through the Carolingian renaissance, 16c London and 18c antiquarianism, to the 20c, with Moscow’s monumental skyscrapers, the development of Bangkok and Peter Moro, the architect of the Royal Festival Hall.
The editor of Architectural History, Mark Swenarton, commented:
“The latest issue of Architectural History continues to set the agenda with an exciting range of articles from scholars of the first rank presenting the latest ground-breaking research on a wide range of topics. With articles covering the UK and Europe - on both sides of the Iron Curtain - as well as Asia and West Africa, taking in periods from the 16th century to the 1960s, plus the special collection on Architecture and Bureaucracy, volume 65 of the journal again offers a fascinating insight into current developments in the discipline – as well as major reassessments of some canonic works of western architecture.”
