建筑有多大的影响力?

IF 0.2 1区 艺术学 0 ART ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1215/00666637-10329569
Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum
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达卡的国民议会大厦由路易斯·卡恩(Louis Kahn)设计,在东巴基斯坦争取自治并成为孟加拉国新国家的几十年动荡中建成。传统的批评叙事将国民议会置于卡恩的传记中,将孟加拉国视为一张空白的画布,卡恩可以在其职业生涯中制定设计哲学。我认为建筑师和评论家并不是建筑意义的唯一仲裁者,在建筑的历史叙述中,不应该忽视当地和政治背景。最近,在建筑史、理论和批评方面,有大量的学术研究将国民议会所属的西方经典去中心化。这篇文章也呼吁建筑师去中心化,并承认客户的议程、历史背景、当地干预、大众感知和建筑的持续使用都会影响建筑随着时间的推移所获得的多层意义。继续延续孤独的艺术天才顽强地追求他的创造性愿景的神话,给了个体建筑师毫无根据的代理权。设计具有能动性,建筑塑造了世界,但建筑本身是由复杂的集体行动塑造的,而不是单一的愿景。作为一位被要求在亚洲进行大规模建设的西方建筑师,卡恩是现在流行的比喻的早期例子。本研究建立了一个模板,用于理解背景下的这类工作,并承认当地参与者在塑造每个项目和确定项目随着时间的推移的文化意义方面发挥的关键作用。
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How Much Agency Does Architecture Have?
Dhaka's National Assembly building, designed by Louis Kahn, was built over several turbulent decades as East Pakistan fought for autonomy and became the new country of Bangladesh. Conventional critical narratives situate the National Assembly within Kahn's biography, treating Bangladesh as an empty canvas on which Kahn could enact design philosophies developed over his career. I contend that architects and critics are not the only arbiters of a building's meaning, and that local and political context should not be ignored in a building's historical narrative. There is ample recent scholarship decentering the Western canon, to which the National Assembly belongs, in architecture history, theory, and criticism. This article calls for decentering the architect as well, and acknowledging that the client's agenda, historical context, local interventions, popular perception, and the ongoing use of a building all influence the many layers of meaning architecture acquires over time. Continuing to perpetuate the myth of the lone artistic genius doggedly pursuing his creative vision gives unfounded agency to the individual architect alone. Design has agency and buildings shape worlds, but buildings themselves are shaped by complex collective actions, not singular visions. As a Western architect called to build on a grand scale in Asia, Kahn is an early example of a now prevalent trope. This research establishes a template for understanding this kind of work in context, and acknowledging the crucial role played by local actors in shaping each project and determining the project's cultural significance over time.
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期刊介绍: Since its establishment in 1945, Archives of Asian Art has been devoted to publishing new scholarship on the art and architecture of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. Articles discuss premodern and contemporary visual arts, archaeology, architecture, and the history of collecting. To maintain a balanced representation of regions and types of art and to present a variety of scholarly perspectives, the editors encourage submissions in all areas of study related to Asian art and architecture. Every issue is fully illustrated (with color plates in the online version), and each fall issue includes an illustrated compendium of recent acquisitions of Asian art by leading museums and collections. Archives of Asian Art is a publication of Asia Society.
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