Call for Papers:
Architecture Not

Session at the College Art Association Conference, Chicago

Claire Zimmerman, University of Michigan, zimclairumich.edu
Adrian Sudhalter, independent scholar, sudhalternyu.edu

This session investigates models of architectural thought in the
divergent practices of those who trained but did not practice as
professional architects. Siegfried Kracauer's interest in surface, for
example, recasts the work of Carl Bötticher, Alois Riegl, and Gottfried
Semper as cultural critique: metaphorical surface replaces material
construction. Johannes Baader abandoned architecture to embrace its
figurative potential in Dadaist assemblages that decimated the
conventions of representational Wilhelmine buildings. El Lissitzky's
architectonic abstractions were "blueprints" for a new society. Does
architecture writ large survive elsewhere, either in the work of
individuals like Sergei Eisenstein, Rudolf Laban, Gordon Matta-Clark,
Maya Lin, or Patrick Keiller, or in broader constellations like Die
Brücke? This session traces architectural thinking across disciplines,
periods, geography, and gender. How are design modes and spatial
concepts transposed to other fields? How do such models affect cognition
or understanding? What ideologies adhere to such cross-disciplinary
overlaps, and with what impact? How does architecture "appear" in other
practices?

Please send a preliminary abstract of 1-2 double-spaced pages and a CV
by May 6, 2013 to zimclairumich.edu and sudhalternyu.edu.


CAA guidelines are available at:
http://www.collegeart.org/proposals/2014callforparticipation
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2014CallforParticipation.pdf