Building Word Image: Printing Architecture 1800-1950

This Special Collection of Architectural Histories, the EAHN Journal, opens up the field of word-image relationships to architectural history by exploring the rising coexistence of the graphic and the verbal in the public dissemination of the built in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Contributions examine printed media such as newspapers, journals, pamphlets, books, manuscripts or catalogues.

Guest Editors: Anne Hultzsch and Catalina Mejia Moreno

Table of Contents:

Anne Hultzsch and Catalina Mejía Moreno,
Introduction: Building Word Image, a New Arena for Architectural History

Patrick Leitner
Inventing Perspectives: New York’s Skyscrapers in the French Illustrated Press (1898-1912)

Danielle Willkens
Reading Words and Images in the Description(s) of Sir John Soane’s Museum

Michela Rosso
Il Selvaggio 1926-1942: Architectural Polemics and Invective Imagery

Ellen Van Impe
‘Puisé Aux Meilleures Sources’: Textual and Visual Strategies of Mid-19th-Century Architectural Historiography in Belgium

Dervla MacManus, Hugh Campbell,
‘Illustrated Picturesquely and Architecturally in Photography’: William J. Stillman and the Acropolis in Word and Image

Victor Tschudi
Goethe in the Hall and His Journeys in Printed Rome

Mari Lending
Promenade Among Words and Things: The Gallery as Catalogue, the Catalogue as Gallery

As this is an online journal, the collection will remain open and further articles will be published shortly.