Publication detail

Myth of an Architect: How Architectural History Lies to Us About Great Architects

JACKSON, L.

Original Title

Type

lecture

Language

English

Original Abstract

Dr. Ladislav Jackson will be joining the School of Architecture to give a talk about the role of biographies and the mythology surrounding great architects, on Friday, October 21st, as part of the Graduate Lecture Series. An architect’s biography still remains – after all the waves of deconstruction of the architectural history in the 20th and the 21st century – a foundation stone in the field. However, the genre has developed certain narrative strategies that deform and complicate our understanding of what it meant to become a modern architect, sustain the privileged position, what were the conditions and the commonplace of their work and what networks they needed to establish. The talk will focus on what tools we have today for recognition of these disproportions and stereotypes that we inherited, how we can avoid them in the process of writing future biographies of “great” architects and if the genre is even relevant for the future.

Keywords

architect; architecture; modern architecture; historiography; art history

Authors

JACKSON, L.

Released

21. 10. 2022

Publisher

School of Architecture + Design; Virginia Tech

Location

Blacksbourg, VA

BibTex

@misc{BUT179814,
  author="Ladislav {Jackson}",
  title="Myth of an Architect: How Architectural History Lies to Us About Great Architects",
  year="2022",
  publisher="School of Architecture + Design; Virginia Tech",
  address="Blacksbourg, VA",
  note="lecture"
}

Responsibility: Ing. Marek Strakoš