Ideological contexts for the proportional systems in Renaissance architecture, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 22-24 March 2012
After a sixty year silence, the discussion of architectural proportion
was reopened at the Leiden conference, “Proportional Systems in the
History of Architecture”, in March 2011. A similarly-named conference
was part of the Ninth Triennale in Milan in 1951 and included
participants such as Le Corbusier, James Ackerman and Rudolf Wittkower.
This call for papers invites a further exploration of the notion of
proportion in Renaissance architecture. The existing research has dealt
mainly with the identification of proportional systems in Renaissance
buildings and their possible derivation from antique or medieval
architecture. Our aim is to focus on the ideological considerations
that determine those systems and to examine architectural proportion as
a discourse in Renaissance culture. Questions to be addressed include:
Do authors of architectural treatises provide a theoretical basis for
their proportional systems? What is the relationship between
architectural and cultural writings (socio-political, literary,
philosophical) with regard to proportional systems? Does the
architectural narrative on proportion inform other contemporary
writings, and in what way?
Please submit your abstract (up to 150 words) and a short CV (including
affiliation and contact information) no later than May 20, 2011 to:
Dr. Berthold Hub, University of Vienna, berthold.hub@univie.ac.at and
Dr. Angeliki Pollali, Deree-The American College of Greece,
apollali@acg.edu
Speakers must be members of the Renaissance Society of America at the
time of the conference.
Please consult the RSA website for further information:
http//www.rsa.org
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Ideological contexts for the proportional systems in Renaissance
architecture (RSA Washington 2012). In: H-ArtHist, Apr 22, 2011.
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