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New Ways of Looking: John Ruskin's visual and textual strategies for writing a history of architecture

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posted on 2023-05-23, 05:31 authored by Chatterjee, A
The paper focuses on the conceptual notion of the audience as an idealized way of seeing or the privileging of certain visual modes to delineate that, which is meaningful in and as architecture. This is examined through an interrogation of John Ruskin's writings on architecture. While Ruskin's writings have had far-reaching effects as well as impacts on Victorian architectural practice, to the professionally trained audience they have always seemed to lack import and potency. This disconnect points to shifts in visual conventions in architectural thought. In order to identify these shifts, the paper puts forwards a series of original arguments. Ruskin's history of architecture was written exclusively on and about· fragments and surfaces. However, underneath this seemingly ad hoc and capricious method was the pursuit of planar architecture, textile analogy, and architectural hybridity. The paper interrogates these -orientations to reveal multiple visual modes of spiritualism, travel, and photography that co-exist and cooperate to inform Ruskin's development of a nineteenth century architectural ideal.

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Publication title

Audience: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand

Editors

A Moulis and D Van Der Plaat

Pagination

1-14

ISBN

9780646558264

Department/School

School of Architecture and Design

Publisher

Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand

Place of publication

Brisbane

Event title

Audience: The 28th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand

Event Venue

State Library of Queensland, Brisbane

Date of Event (Start Date)

2011-07-07

Date of Event (End Date)

2011-07-10

Rights statement

Copyright 2011 SAHANZ

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  • Restricted

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Expanding knowledge in built environment and design

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