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SUMMARY:Traditional Architecture and National Identity
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DESCRIPTION:Miles Lewis\, Architectural historian\, Professor in the Facul
 ty of Architecture\, Building & Planning at the University of Melbourne\nT
 raditional building technology is often as important an indication of iden
 tity as are language and ethnicity. This lecture examines how peoples and 
 nations identify with their traditional building technologies\, and how id
 eas in building are spread by cultural means. Examples include the monolit
 hic arch and the Syrian diaspora in the dark ages\; the Kurdish compromise
  in mud brick\; lobed and horseshoe arches\; lehmwickel\, German emigratio
 n and the Franks\; the Mayan false arch forms surviving in Spanish colonia
 l Guatemala\; Halsingland and the Baltic timber trade.\n\nMiles Lewis is a
 n architectural historian who specialises in the cultural history of build
 ing. His work has ranged from Syrian stonemasonry to European architecture
  in Tianjin\, China\, and he is currently researching Trägerwellblech iro
 n construction. His publications include Architectura (London and New York
 \, 2009)\, of which he was editor and principal author\, and Two Hundred Y
 ears of Concrete in Australia (Sydney\, 1988). He is a Fellow of the Austr
 alian Academy of Humanities\, Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the Un
 iversity of Melbourne\, a UNESCO / ICOMOS World Heritage Counsellor\, a Fe
 llow of the International Advisory Board of the Royal Institute of Archite
 cts\, and life member and former Vice-President of the Comité Internation
 al d’Architecture Vernaculaire (CIAV). For his services to architectural
  history and Australian society\, he was awarded the Order of Australia (2
 002) and the Centenary Medal (2001).
LOCATION:AAC 231 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=AAC+231
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