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SUMMARY:Construction Drawing: Retracing the Roles of an Early 20th Century
  British Contractor / THEMA
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Jesse Honsa\, KU Leuven\nThis talk introduces drawing as an in
 vestigative tool. Architectural drawings do not only communicate informati
 on\, but create it: compiling\, scrutinizing\, charting\, comparing\, and 
 hypothesizing from existing sources. Such methods are especially relevant 
 in a particularly resource-scarce and messy area of historical research: c
 onstruction history. The lecture focuses on one building firm: John Laing 
 & Son\, a large-scale builder of garden cities and settlements in the earl
 y twentieth century\, using drawings to piece together construction sites\
 , details\, projects and work relationships. The scale and scope of Laing
 ’s vertically-integrated organisation redefined normative roles such as 
 ‘contractor\,’ ‘unskilled worker\,’ ‘developer\,’ and ‘archi
 tect.’\n\nThis talk is the first in the 2024 EDAR lecture series Scholar
 s in Transition "Mud on the Floor: Dirty Realities in Scholarly Work." \n
 \nImage caption: timelapse of Laing workers constructing an ‘Easiform’
  concrete house in the 1940s. Drawing by Jesse Honsa.
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