Genres of Historiography in AE [13-5 Οκτ. 2019]

Genres of Historiography in architectural education

1.     Ideological – Manifestoes – what will change in the future and be… e.g. Walter Gropius: Programme of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar

2.     Invented Speech – the way it should be; the goals of an education… e.g. deans’ message

3.     Iterative – Step-by-step – planned methodology of an educator… e.g. Angelil, Biris, etc.

4.     Intertextual – how the educator was educated herself or himself by their herorized mentor… e.g. so many anonymous examples…

5.     Professional – practicing architects’ criticism on the basis of what the profession needs from new graduates and suggestions/orders for specific educational ways… e.g. ?

6.     Legal – how it is to be done so as to receive the right for a professional practicing license… e.g. RIBA, national technical chambers, etc.

7.     Reports – research observations and statistics by specialists on architectural education… e.g. sociologists, psychologists, etc.

8.     Interdisciplinary – how is to be done based on other disciplines axioms, suggestions, etc… e.g. mathematics, neurobiology, etc.

9.     Critical

10.  Recombinant – knowing the past so as to know how to walk the future by evolving… Kosti

11.  Academized architectural writings – architectural writing for the sake of writing…