Group Dr. Anne Hultzsch
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Group Hultzsch works with intersectional feminist approaches to expand the histories of architectures and landscapes before 1900. We focus on Europe and South America in their colonial contexts and operate in three languages: English, Spanish, and German.
Currently we concentrate on WoWA (short for Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900), a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) as part of Horizon 2020. We search for the architectural agency of women in a period in which they were largely excluded from the practice of architectural design. We make visible the influence and power they had over the creation of meaning in architecture, over its reception, its use, and its adaptations.
We propose that agency in architecture can be found in the practice of writing: texts containing sense-making, criticisms, instructions, or other semantic forms both record and influence how spaces have been used and understood in the past. We regard such writing as on a par, in terms of agency, with the practice of disegno – design and drawing. While architects and makers may define, with others, the built and its lands at the point of conception, writers can guide and shape its reception, adaptation, and use. We explore such architectural sense-making through the practice of writing: the rendering into words of experiences within and commentaries on the built or the land, for others to read, relive, understand, and see through.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No.949525).
Contact
Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur gta
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
HIL D 72.1 & HIL D 72.2
8093
Zürich
Schweiz