Modern to Contemporary: A Historiography of Global in Architecture

Macarena de la Vega de León


DOI: https://doi.org/10.20868/cn.2019.4259

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A finales del siglo XX se produjo un cambio en la manera de escribir la historia de la arquitectura. A partir de 1999, aparece un cierto impulso para entender la arquitectura desde un punto de vista global, a la luz de la teoría postcolonial. Sibel Bozdoğan hace la siguiente proposición: escribir una ‘historia entrelazada/entretejida,’ que demuestre que el canon occidental y la producción cultural de las sociedades aparte de Europe y los Estados Unidos no son independientes, ni que ésta última fuera a sustituir a aquella. La bibliografía resultante no ha sabido mostrar las sutiles instancias de intercambios entre culturas y de valores universales compartidos, olvidándose de revisar el concepto de universalismo. Este trabajo de investigación propone una revisión crítica de las historias globales de la arquitectura publicadas entre 1999 y 2014, así como de los debates académicos más recientes para entender qué queda por hacer hoy. Aunque puede ser que ‘global,’ como categoría haya perdido su capacidad crítica para comprender el presente, la historiografía de lo global en arquitectura aún tiene que escribirse.

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The writing of architectural history shifted with the turn of the century. By 1999, there is an urge to understand architecture from a global perspective, under the lens of postcolonial theories. Sibel Bozdoğan set the task: to write an ‘intertwined history,’ which shows that the western canon and the cultural production of societies outside of Europe and North America are not separate and independent, nor is the latter to replace the former. Subsequent literature failed to look into subtle instances of cross-cultural exchanges and universally shared values, thus neglecting to revise the notion of universalism. This paper analyses the resulting literature on global architecture published between 1999 and 2014, and more recent scholarly discussions to understand what remains for historians to do today. Though it may be that ‘global’ has lost its criticality as category to comprehend the present, the historiography of global architecture is yet to be written.


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Historiografía; global; arquitectura; estudios poscoloniales; historiography; global; architecture; postcolonial studies

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