AAH Student Summer Symposium
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

24 - 25 June 2010

Architectural Objects
Discussing Spatial Form Across Art Histories

The 'spatial turn' in the history of art has had a significant impact on
the understanding of artistic practice and the built environment, and
the formal and political complexities of space in a broader sense. This
symposium explores the role of architectural theory and practice within
multiple art histories, working across theoretical and aesthetic
categories to redefine notions of space and form. From Tatlin's
Monument to the Third International, to the spatial environments of
LeCorbusier and Robert Morris, this interrelationship has challenged and
reconfigured canonic divisions between architecture, ornament, sculpture
and performance. Within a global perspective, the 'architectural object'
can be traced throughout many histories of cultural production,
demonstrated within the sculpted interiors of temples and mosques, the
conceptual forms of the stupa or reliquary, or the use of decorative
'architectura' within ornamental schemes.

Exploring the 'architectural object' as a recurring and ever-changing
phenomenon, a two-day symposium will consider a diverse range of papers
that discuss this theme across cultural and temporal divides. Keynote
speakers include former Leverhulme Fellow Dr. Richard Checketts and
former Henry Moore Foundation Fellow Dr. David Hulks. Architectural
Objects is hosted in collaboration with the Henry Moore Institute's
Hermann Obrist exhibition, marking the wide-ranging 'spatial'
production of the prolific architect, sculptor and designer.

Spaces are limited and you must be an AAH member to attend. Please
register at http://www.aah.org.uk/page/2883 by
28 May 2010*.

Student Papers Include:

Rebecca Wade (University of Leeds), 'The Application of Art to
Manufactures: the function of architectural ornament in mid-nineteenth
century British art education'

Jane Eckett (Melbourne University), 'Sculptural entities or
architectural objects: the place of sculpture in post-war Australian
architecture'

Ana Beatriz de Rocha (Chelsea college of art & design), 'So, what is
"modern" in a modern museum of art? Theories, concepts and events which
reshaped art museums' forms and functions'

Gaynor Gallagher (Birmingham City University), 'The counter monument,
redeeming history'

Iuliana Gavril (University of Sussex) 'Modeling the Architectural
Object or the Cosmos? Sixth-Century Byzantine Approaches to Church
Architecture'

Margaret Graves (University of Edinburgh), 'Architecture Reconfigured:
miniature buildings and ekphrasis in the medieval Islamic world'

James Robertson (The Manchester School of Architecture), 'The
Prototype Pavilion - Modernism, National Identity and Religion in the
Context of Scotland'

Richard Difford (Bartlett Graduate School, University College London)
'LeCorbusier, still life and stereoscopic space in sculptural relief and
architecture'

Cecile Bendixen (Danmarks Designskole), 'The Textile Space'

Andrew Hardman (The University of Manchester), '"There is no innocent
room": The Studio-Image as Art History'

Stefaan Vervoort (VU University, Amsterdam), 'Containing Architecture:
On the critical faculty of sculpture in the work of Luc Deleu'

James O'Connor (Cambridge), 'Rothko Reads Michelangelo: Painterly
Appropriation of Architectural Strategy'

Judith LeGrove (The University of Manchester), 'Architectural objects,
exhibitionary contexts: Groupe Espace and Geoffrey Clarke's House of
the Future'

Susanna Bieber (Freie Universität Berlin), 'Dilapidated Hotels, Mayan
Ruins, and Other Construction Sites: Robert Smithson's Architectural
Explorations'