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FORTHCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES of PRE/TEXT:
ANNOUNCEMENTs and CALLS FOR PAPERS
Rhetorics of Architecture
Guest Edited by Shelton Waldrep:
This special issue invites essays and experimental projects on the nature of the relationship between the field of architecture and architectural writing and on the theoretical deployment of rhetoric in the analysis of architecture.
Beginning at least in 1932 with Johnson and Hitchcock's The International Style, modern architecture has been the construction of writers as much as architects and builders. During the post-modernist period, Charles Jencks sought to codify the post-modern phase as carefully and encyclopedically as Sigfried Giedion did for modernist architecture with his multi-edition Space, Time and Architecture. More recently, architects such as Peter Eisenman have fashioned buildings and plans for buildings that are dependent upon theory to make them complete. Similarly, Deleuze and Derrida have explored the architectonics of space and buildings in their own philisophical writings.
Current work such as one finds in the ANY conference publications or in the magazine Newsline (Columbia) suggests that the relationship between writing and architecture is a complex one of immediate importance to critical discourse in general and architectural theory in particular.
The goal of this issue will be to help to move the discussion about architecture beyond the modernism/post-modernism debate via an investigation of the relationship between architecture and writing and/or language.
Topics might include temporality and the event; memory and memorials; virtuality; theming; globalization and local culture; queer spaces; cinema and projection; cartography; digital technology; Deleuzian folds.
S H E L T O N W A L D R E P
Department of English
University of Southern Maine
3 Luther Bonney Hall
Post Office Box 9300
Portland Maine 04104-9300
waldrep@maine.maine.edu
fax: 207-780-5457
tel: 207-780-4086
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