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In the Names of History: Quatremère De Quincy and the Literature of Egyptian Architecture
The institutional and ideational reconfiguration of architecture into discrete and professional practices began in late eighteenth-century France. Quatremère de Quincy (1755–1849) was caught in this critical divide between a humanist organic tradition and a modern age of specialized disciplines. One of his most important texts concerns Egyptian architecture, a subject that played a significant role in establishing a methodological alliance between history and science. By comparing Quatremère's work with other publications on Egypt, it becomes apparent that while the name of history was increasingly invoked to lend an impersonal and hence authoritative voice to studies of the past, the individual voices continued to speak in the ideologically motivated language of the present.
Quatremère's work illuminates the consequences of this historiographical evolution because he deliberately attempted to negotiate between the dispassionate methods of the modern historian and the tendentious aims of a theorist of contemporary architecture. What was a difficult conflation of disciplines has become an almost suspect perversion of methodological standards: today scholarship loses acclaim in the degree to which the subjective participation of the scholar is acknowledged. Disclaiming this engagement, however, reduces the historian's ability to perceive and thus to assume critical responsibility for the shape and meaning of his or her own practice.
In the Names of History: Quatremère De Quincy and the Literature of Egyptian Architecture
The institutional and ideational reconfiguration of architecture into discrete and professional practices began in late eighteenth-century France. Quatremère de Quincy (1755–1849) was caught in this critical divide between a humanist organic tradition and a modern age of specialized disciplines. One of his most important texts concerns Egyptian architecture, a subject that played a significant role in establishing a methodological alliance between history and science. By comparing Quatremère's work with other publications on Egypt, it becomes apparent that while the name of history was increasingly invoked to lend an impersonal and hence authoritative voice to studies of the past, the individual voices continued to speak in the ideologically motivated language of the present.
Quatremère's work illuminates the consequences of this historiographical evolution because he deliberately attempted to negotiate between the dispassionate methods of the modern historian and the tendentious aims of a theorist of contemporary architecture. What was a difficult conflation of disciplines has become an almost suspect perversion of methodological standards: today scholarship loses acclaim in the degree to which the subjective participation of the scholar is acknowledged. Disclaiming this engagement, however, reduces the historian's ability to perceive and thus to assume critical responsibility for the shape and meaning of his or her own practice.
In the Names of History: Quatremère De Quincy and the Literature of Egyptian Architecture
Lavin, Sylvia (Autor:in)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 44 ; 131-137
01.05.1991
7 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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