(Claude-NicolasLedoux,TheaterofBesançonineyeofviewer,fromL’Architecture,1804)
PERCEPTIONSOFARCHITECTUREINEARLY
MODERNEUROPE
Saturday,5November2016
KenworthyHall,St.Mary’sCollege,DurhamUniversity
SupportedbytheInstituteofAdvancedStudy,theInstituteofMedievalandEarlyModernStudies,ItalianStudies,St.Mary’sCollege,andtheSchoolofModernLanguagesandCultures
Acrossdiscoursesandmedia,earlymodernEuropeansencounteredadviceaboutandmodelsforinteractingwiththebuiltenvironmentaroundthem.Architectsscatteredbriefinstructionsfordesigningaviewer’sexperiencethroughouttheirtreatises,poetsnarratedimaginedtoursofhouseandestate,andartistswhocomposedprintsandpaintingsofbuildingslocatedviewersatparticularvantagepoints.Simultaneously,philosophersandscientistsdebatedhumanperceptionofthephysicalworldatlarge–forexample,explanationfirstbyAristotelianScholasticsandthenmechanisticphilosophersofhowparticlevibrationsacteduponthehumansensestocreatementalimagesofobjects.Sucharchitectural,philosophical,andscientificdiscussionshadtheirechoesinself-reflectiveviewingofbuildingsbytravellerswhodescribedintheirjournalsthebuildingsthattheyvisited. Thisconferenceinvestigatestheterms,criteriaandquestionsbywhichearlymodernviewerswereexpectedtoand/ordidinteractwiththebuiltspacesaroundthem.Insodoing,itmergesindependentyetoverlappingstrandsofscholarlyinquiry:forinstance,architecturalandculturalhistorianshaveexaminedusesofspacesandapatron’srationalebehindadesign,whilearthistorianswhofollowMichaelBaxandall’snotionofthe‘periodeye’andliteraryhistorianswhodiscusstheimaginedtoursofpoetshaveanalyzedconceptsunderpinningearlymodernviewing.Theseandotherstrandsofinquiryarebroughttogetherbyaninternational,interdisciplinarygroupofspeakersexaminingcasestudiesencompassingEngland,France,Italy,andtheNetherlandsduringthesixteenththrougheighteenthcenturies.Programme9.30 Registration10.00 Welcome KimberleySkelton(DurhamUniversity)10.05 Keynote
MauriceHoward(UniversityofSussex):‘BuildingsObservedinEarlyModernEngland’
11.05 Coffee11.30 Session1.Chair:DarioTessicini(DurhamUniversity)
ChriscindaHenry(McGillUniversity/VillaITatti):‘ThePalaceUnderworld:RecreationalSpaceandVisualPleasureattheCastellodelBuonconsiglio,Trent’LauraFernández-González(UniversityofLincoln):‘PerceptionsofEphemeralandPermanentArchitectureinHabsburgLisbon’JanClarke(DurhamUniversity):‘TheUsesofArchitectureontheSeventeenth-CenturyFrenchStage’
1.00 Lunch2.00 Session2.Chair:TomWynn(DurhamUniversity)
ElizabethPetcu(Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitätMünchen):‘Anti-AnthropomorphismintheArchitectureofJosephBoillot’EdmundThomas(DurhamUniversity):‘ViewingtheAntique,VisualisingtheBaroque:JeanMarot’sEngravingsoftheTemplesatBaalbek’SusanKlaiber(IndependentScholar,Switzerland):‘InsideOut:SituatingtheTheatineInterior’
3.30 Tea/Coffee4.00 Session3.Chair:KimberleySkelton(DurhamUniversity) StefanoCracolici(DurhamUniversity):TBC OliviaHorsfallTurner(VictoriaandAlbertMuseum):‘“Remembranceof
ThingsPast”:BuildingsandthePerceptionofHistoryandPlaceinEarlyModernEngland’
FreekSchmidt(VrijeUniversiteitAmsterdam):‘HistoricalandOtherSensations:ViewerResponsestoAmsterdamBuildingsintheEighteenthCentury’
5.30 WineReception
PERCEPTIONSOFARCHITECTUREINEARLYMODERNEUROPESaturday,5November2016KenworthyHall,St.Mary’sCollege,DurhamUniversitySupportedbytheInstituteofAdvancedStudy,theInstituteofMedievalandEarlyModernStudies,ItalianStudies,St.Mary’sCollege,andtheSchoolofModernLanguagesandCulturesRegistrationFormRegistrationDeadline:Wednesday,26October2016RegistrationFee:£20.00(includestea/coffee,lunch,andwinereception)PleasereturntoKimberleySkeltonat:[email protected]’sDetailsName:Institution:Emailaddress:DietaryRequirements(eg,vegetarian,vegan,foodallergies/intolerances,etc)Payment(bycredit/debitcard;alltypesacceptedexceptforAmericanExpress)Cardtype:Nameofaccountholder:Cardnumber:Expirydate:Securitycode(last3digitsinsignatureboxonbackofcard):Signature:Date:
