ESALA Architectural History & Theory Seminars

Architectural History & Theory Seminar Series at Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, ECA, the University of Edinburgh.

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Image: E.-E. Viollet-le-Duc. Glacier at the Aiguille of Tré-la-tête, southern part of the Mont Blanc massif. 1877. Watercolor, graphite and gouache. 29.7 x 46.5 cm. Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie.

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Hello! The fifth and final talk in Semester 2 of our 24/25 Seminar series will be by Prof. Martin Bressani (McGill University) on 'The Travail of Nature: An Ecological Reading of Viollet-le-Duc', Tue. 25th March, 17:15 GMT, in-person at Elliot Room, Minto House, and via Zoom.

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The presentation will conclude by showing how such ‘puissances directrices de la nature’ finds expression in Viollet-le-Duc’s architecture thought and practice, and what constitutes its political consequences.

See many of you there!

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Image credit: Marco Carloni after Franciszek Smuglewicz & Vincenzo Brenna, Room 25 with Judgment of Paris Sculptural Group, 53.1 × 58 cm, coloured etching in Ludovico Mirri (ed.), Vestigia delle Terme di Tito e loro interne pitture (Rome, 1776), pl. 7

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The third talk in 24/25 Semester 2 will be by our very own Dr Olek Musiał (the University of Edinburgh), whose talk is titled 'Excess Underground: Immersive Interiors and Climate Control Inside Eastern European Bathing Apartments, c.1760-90', on Tue. 25th February, 17:15 GMT.

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and character into polysensorial environments. Such artificial micro-climates inform the emerging notions of modern hygiene and interiority understood as means of social self-preservation and survival.

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— cloaked in Victorian gentility’. Joshua will assess Gayle’s own magnetism, in contrast to her subsequent estrangement.

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Hello! Our final talk this semester is 'Margot Gayle: A Friend of Cast-Iron Architecture' by Dr Joshua Mardell (Royal College of Art, London).

In-person in the Elliot Room, Minto House, 20 Chambers St., on Tuesday 26 November, 17:15 GMT, or via Zoom (link below).

See you there!

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for the (all-male) New York City Council on the ballot ‘We need a woman in City Hall’. Failing to be elected, she turned her rhetorical skills to architectural, primarily Victorian cast iron, preservation. Her obituary in the New York Times noted her ‘cast-iron will →

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from stonecutting to modern machinery, and demonstrates how Wren’s experience translated into his later stewardship of the British Office of Works.

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Hello! The fourth talk in our series, 'The Louvre Under Construction as a ‘School of Architecture' by Dr Elizabeth Deans (University of Cambridge), is on Tue. 12, November, 17:15 GMT. In-person in the Elliot Room, Minto House, 20 Chamber St, or online via Zoom. See you there!

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Wren’s experience of the Louvre construction, in particular, was a form of study. He observed a laboratory where architects, artisans, and labourers were all engaged in a shared intellectual and practical process. This talk analyses the Louvre construction site in 1665, →