Silent Collaborators

On Authorship in Architecture
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-86597-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Silent Collaborators: On Authorship in Architecture reconsiders the persistence of the single-author narrative in architecture by examining the wider networks of people, expertise, and circumstances through which architectural works are conceived, developed, represented, and remembered. Rather than replacing one canon with another, the book expands the notion of authorship, asking how particular contributions become visible, obscured, or forgotten, and what these processes reveal about the ways architectural history is constructed.

Through case studies ranging from Mies van der Rohe’s Chicago Convention Hall and Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh Capitol to Adler & Sullivan’s Auditorium Building, this collected edition travels from the modern masters to beyond, bringing less visible collaborators to the foreground. Stories including those of the young architects who worked on Rome’s Quartiere Tiburtino, Latin American collaborators in Le Corbusier’s atelier, and expats in Australian New Town planning expand the narrative to include disadvantaged and disincentivized, while others elaborate the stories behind the often invisible roles of the structural engineer, media, architect wives, and even community design partnerships. Together, the chapters reveal the many forms collaboration can take and the different circumstances — professional hierarchies, gender, migration, publicity, collective labor, and disciplinary boundaries — that shape whose contributions are acknowledged and whose remain in the background.

Bringing together research from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and Australia, and drawing on archival material, private collections, oral histories, and other original sources, this volume offers a broader account of architectural production and its histories. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of architectural history and theory, as well as architects, designers, and others interested in authorship, collaboration, and the collective processes through which architecture is made.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Kristin

Garcia-Requejo, Zaida

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekten & Architekturbüros
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Berufe & Ausbildung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1: IN CONNECTION WITH “THE MASTERS”  1. Revising the Master Narrative: Engineers and Architectural Authorship in the Modern Era 2. Latinos Creating Chandigarh: A Team for Le Corbusier's Capitol 3. Mies van der Rohe’s Concert Hall Collage as a Product of Contingent Innovation 4. A Silenced Client in a Modernist Saga: Ferdinand Peck and Adler & Sullivan’s Chicago Auditorium Building  PART 2: OTHER REASONS FOR OBLIVION  5. Quiet collaboration: European modernism and the design of New Towns in wartime Australia, Ernest Fooks and Frank Heath 6. Noémi Raymond as designer in the Raymond architectural office in Japan, USA, and India 7. Women and the Promotion of Bay Region School: The Case of Architectural Record Western Editor Elisabeth Kendall Thompson 8. The Quartiere Tiburtino Beyond Ludovico Quaroni and Mario Ridolfi 9. The Power of Housewife: the Architectural Chores of Lu Lijia and Lu Wenyu 10. Silence en abyme: Collective Authorship and the House of the People in Bucharest 11. Un-silencing Authorship: Addressing Design Responsibility through Interdisciplinary Place-based Research On Resilience

Über Autor(innen)

Kristin Jones is an architect, educator, and researcher. She is President and founder of Studio Integra, Ltd., with a focus on residential, educational, healthcare, and adaptive-reuse projects. A registered architect in the U.S., she holds a Ph.D. and B.Arch. from the Illinois Institute of Technology, where she has taught architecture since 2006. Her research explores modern architecture and urban resiliency as well as architectural education, the legacy of Mies van der Rohe at IIT, and intersections between research and practice. Her work has been recognized with the 2026 Making Waves Award and multiple historic preservation awards from the Village of Oak Park.

Zaida Garcia-Requejo is an architect and Associate Professor at the University of A Coruña, where she has taught since 2016. Her research focuses on modern architecture, architectural education, and the relationships between teaching, research, and practice. Her doctoral research examined Mies van der Rohe’s architecture and teaching at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She has conducted research at IIT and the Canadian Centre for Architecture and collaborated with the Mies van der Rohe Society on research and exhibitions at Crown Hall. Her curatorial work also includes SIZA, presented at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon in 2024.