SAHGB-EAHN annual symposium; British Architecture Seen From Abroad May 15, 2009

Organised jointly by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and the European Architectural History Network.

The symposium aims to broaden our understanding of British architecture in the wider world. Proposals are invited for papers that illuminate aspects of British architecture from non-British points of view. They might include accounts of British architecture by foreigners travelling in Britain, gleaned from letters or journals, or reactions to British architects travelling abroad, whether as Grand Tourists, or carrying out work overseas. Accounts of British architecture by non-British scholars will also be welcome, for the light they shed on what it seems important to say about British architecture. Hermann Muthesius and Henry-Russell Hitchcock gave important interpretations of British architecture, for example, and historiographic papers will be welcome, but there are people now researching British topics from various parts of the world, and we would be interested to hear from them. There are important postcolonial perspectives to be opened up, and assimilations of celebrated British architects into the world of globalized commodity fetishism.

Official Website: http://www.sahgb.org.uk/index.cfm/display_page/EventsSymposium