Buildings in Society International 2014 Call for Papers

Jill Campbell

This study covers the position, importance, and purpose of documentation in architecture. In this context, evaluations have been made of the problems that may occur in surveying techniques, which are documentation applications. The advantages and disadvantages of traditional and digital approach methods in surveying techniques are presented. Renda Mansion orthophoto production, a building that is an example of modernism in Turkey’s early Republic period which has been documented with laser scanning is examined.

Building studies (ancient and modern) too often fall between the gaps of the disciplines of architectural history, archaeology and social anthropology. The multi-disciplinary conferences Buildings in Society International (BISI) are an attempt to bridge these gaps. The first event in the series was organized by the University of Aarhus, Denmark in 2010. Four years later this was followed up by another conference in Queen´s University, Belfast, UK, and in 2017 the third interdisciplinary conference took place in Stockholm, Sweden. The BISI events have convincingly shown that the study of medieval and early modern buildings benefits from an interdisciplinary approach, and also a broad perspective, in terms of time and space. They have furthermore demonstrated the importance of social, economic, political and cultural contexts when working with built environments. The articles in this volume examine how people have been making, using and transforming buildings and built environments in general, and how the buildings have been perceived. It also considers a diversity of built constructions – including dwellings and public buildings, sheds and manor houses, secular and sacral structures. We find the comparison between different regions and parts of the globe important when addressing buildings from a social perspective. This volume presents studies from the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Mexico. And the chronological framework spans from the classical byzantine period, over the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period and ends up in the 20th century Belfast.

Call for Papers: Buildings and Society in an Historical Perspective AD 500-1914 – Contributions from Archaeology, History and Architecture (Buildings in Society International) 19 to 21 June 2014, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Organizers: Jill Campbell Mark Gardiner, Liz Thomas People shape buildings and buildings in turn shape people’s perceptions, experience and behaviour. Yet in spite of the importance of architecture in structuring our environment, the relationship between architecture and societies in the past remains poorly understood and under-theorized. Building studies fall in the gaps between the disciplines of architectural history, archaeology and social anthropology. We need to recognize that architecture has conscious and unconscious intentions, and buildings have a diversity of meanings beyond their actual function. Those meanings may be mis/understood, resisted or denied by those experiencing the building, and through habitation or use. Buildings (from conception to construction and reconstruction) exist in different times – being re-structured, re-thought and re-experienced by subsequent generations. They are not static objects but have a dynamic biography. Buildings do not have a single meaning, but multiple and changing meanings. This interdisciplinary conference will examine the historical contexts in which buildings have been constructed and the responses to buildings over time. It will consider a diversity of buildings, including houses, public buildings, institutions, agricultural and industrial structures. Papers addressing theoretical approaches in historical building studies, as well as papers reflecting interdisciplinary discourse are particularly welcome. Possible themes include, but are not limited to: industry, ritual space, power and display, biographies of buildings, methodological approaches, vernacular buildings and regional societies, family and domestic spaces. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes long. Please send abstracts of proposed papers (no more than 300 words) and a CV of the speaker (no more than 150 words) to: bisi@qub.ac.uk. Call for papers closing date: 1 November 2013. For further information, see: www.qub.ac.uk/sites/BISI or contact bisi@qub.ac.uk

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