ACT-Guest Seminar-13th-September-2023

The Architecture, Culture & Tectonics Research Group warmly invites you to attend their Seminar on Wednesday 13th September 2023 at 13pm online via Teams.

This paper examines the architectural drawing known as the analytique, a drawing associated with the École des Beaux Arts which had comprehensive influence in the United States of America and British Commonwealth schools of architecture in the late nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth centuries. The focus of the analysis is John Harbeson's The Study of Architectural Design (1926). The paper discusses the analytique in terms of mise en abyme and Mikhail Bakhtin's notions of the grotesque, and argues that the analytique anticipated both the spatiality of modern architecture and the representational play of post modernism.

 

Christine McCarthy teaches interior architecture at Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. Her research areas include: prison architecture, architectural drawing and representation, and architectural history.