Traditional Architecture and National Identity
Event details
| Date | 20.06.2012 |
| Hour | 18:00 |
| Speaker | Miles Lewis, Architectural historian, Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning at the University of Melbourne |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Traditional building technology is often as important an indication of identity as are language and ethnicity. This lecture examines how peoples and nations identify with their traditional building technologies, and how ideas in building are spread by cultural means. Examples include the monolithic arch and the Syrian diaspora in the dark ages; the Kurdish compromise in mud brick; lobed and horseshoe arches; lehmwickel, German emigration and the Franks; the Mayan false arch forms surviving in Spanish colonial Guatemala; Halsingland and the Baltic timber trade.
Miles Lewis is an architectural historian who specialises in the cultural history of building. His work has ranged from Syrian stonemasonry to European architecture in Tianjin, China, and he is currently researching Trägerwellblech iron construction. His publications include Architectura (London and New York, 2009), of which he was editor and principal author, and Two Hundred Years of Concrete in Australia (Sydney, 1988). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne, a UNESCO / ICOMOS World Heritage Counsellor, a Fellow of the International Advisory Board of the Royal Institute of Architects, and life member and former Vice-President of the Comité International d’Architecture Vernaculaire (CIAV). For his services to architectural history and Australian society, he was awarded the Order of Australia (2002) and the Centenary Medal (2001).
Miles Lewis is an architectural historian who specialises in the cultural history of building. His work has ranged from Syrian stonemasonry to European architecture in Tianjin, China, and he is currently researching Trägerwellblech iron construction. His publications include Architectura (London and New York, 2009), of which he was editor and principal author, and Two Hundred Years of Concrete in Australia (Sydney, 1988). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne, a UNESCO / ICOMOS World Heritage Counsellor, a Fellow of the International Advisory Board of the Royal Institute of Architects, and life member and former Vice-President of the Comité International d’Architecture Vernaculaire (CIAV). For his services to architectural history and Australian society, he was awarded the Order of Australia (2002) and the Centenary Medal (2001).
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- LTH3