30.328, Calls: Discourse Analysis/France

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Subject: 30.328, Calls: Discourse Analysis/France

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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 23:02:38
From: Digonnet Rémi [remi.digonnet at univ-st-etienne.fr]
Subject: What Languages for Architecture?

 
Full Title: What Languages for Architecture? 

Date: 25-Apr-2019 - 26-Apr-2019
Location: Saint-Étienne, France 
Contact Person: Digonnet Rémi
Meeting Email: remi.digonnet at univ-st-etienne.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 12-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

How do we talk about architecture today? Is architectural discourse normative,
systemic, or does it take from a personal sphere or a collective imaginary?
What idea of architecture is revealed by the words used to describe
architectural works? What universe is created by Hadid’s parametricism or Le
Corbusier’s International Style, Augé’s concept of non-place opposed to the
commons, or even the re-appropriation of the concept of Brusselisation, which
allows architectural reflection to emerge from an absence of urban planning?
What simple (neology, metaphor, borrowing) or complex discursive strategies
(principles, charters, travel writings, sense-impressions) exist to elaborate
a manifesto of modern (cf. Quand les cathédrales étaient blanches: Voyage au
pays des timides by Le Corbusier) or contemporary urbanisms (cf. Delirious New
York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Koolhaas)?


Call for Papers:

The analysis of a specific discourse, i.e. architectural discourse, should
help to understand architectural thinking from the idea to the plan, from the
textual to the visual, or vice-versa. By preceding an architectural work but
also illustrating such a work, discourse partakes of both creative and
communicative processes of an architectural form or an urbanistic vision. The
study of architectural and urbanistic manifestos should allow the definition
of such a discourse to better observe the tension between technical and
imaginary discourse (Bachelard, 1994: 5). Thanks to lexicon, the words of
architecture reveal an organised space (Barthes, 1985: 264). The attempt to
identify the words, perceived as tools for the architect, or the aim to
measure the evolution of an architectural lexicon (recycling, neology) should
permit to identify and seize written, described, or even prohibited
urbanities. Isn’t the recourse to stylistic detours chosen by the architects
such as metaphor, metonymy or synaesthesia, an illustration of an ambition,
explanatory and communicative but also truly creative? Beyond the purely
discursive characteristics of an architectural or urbanistic vision which
define what could be called an « archilect », the discourse of architecture
convenes a dialogue between a more-or-less authoritative voice and its
inhabitants. Is the enunciative authority of the architect visible in his or
her speech or is it just a myth? Does the projection of the architectural
object always give rise to the implication of the subject?

Discourse and architecture: two constructions, governed by their own rules but
also subject to transgression, naturally echo one another: discourse often
allows to formalise architecture (Wright, 1954: 182-183) and architectural
concepts can also be apt to describe language (Rener, 1989: 86).

Some of the following subjects could be analysed:

- Analysis of architectural and urbanistic manifestos
- Words as tools of the architect
- Evolution of the architectural lexicon
- Tension between technical discourse and imaginary discourse
- From textual to visual: from the idea to the plan
- From visual to textual: from 3D to linear
- Metaphors to express architecture
- Architectural metaphors to express a target domain
- An attempt to define an « archilect »
- Written, described, and prohibited urbanities 
- Architectural synaesthesia
- The enunciative authority of the architect
- The expression of doubt in the architectural project
- A socio-linguistic approach to architecture’s evolution 
- The architectural novelty: neology or recycling of words?
- Textual configuration and spatial reconfiguration
- Discursive variation between doctrine and theory

Please send your proposals (about 300 words, English or French and a short
bio-bibliography) to Rémi Digonnet (remi.digonnet at univ-st-etienne.fr), Aude
Laferrière (aude.laferriere at univ-st-etienne.fr) and Pierre Manen
(pierre.manen at univ-st-etienne.fr) before February 12, 2019. Authors will be
notified by February 20, 2019.




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