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Future Anterior

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Future Anterior
Editors: Jorge Otero-Pailos
An international point of reference for the critical examination of historic preservation.

Future Anterior approaches historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry, rigorous scholarship, and theoretical analysis. The journal is an important international forum for the critical examination of historic preservation, spurring challenges of its assumptions, goals, methods, and results. As the first journal in American academia devoted to the study and advancement of historic preservation, it provides a much-needed bridge between architecture and history.

The journal also features provocative theoretical reflections on historic preservation from the point of view of art, philosophy, law, geography, archeology, planning materials science, cultural anthropology, and conservation.

Future Anterior is essential reading for anyone interested in historic preservation and its role in current cultural debates. Click here for an index to the contents of past issues.

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  • Issue 1 - Volume 8 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Peter Meyer and the Swiss Discourse on Monumentality
    Guilty by Association? Chueca Goita’s Stylistic Restorations under Franco’s Dictatorship, 1953–75
    The Gur- i Amir Mausoleum and the Soviet Politics of Preservation
    Decentralized Past: Heritage Politics in Post- Stalin Central Asia
    Document: The Methods of Restoration of Architectural Monuments: Contemporary Theoretical Conceptions (1977)
    Exhibition Review: Altered States of Preservation: Preservation by OMA/AMO
    Conversation: Architecture, Violence, Evidence
    Book Review: Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict by Andrew Herscher
    Artist Intervention: As long as you keep your nose clean, you can stay hidden forever. Haus der Vorstellung, Torstrasse 166, Berlin
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    Editorial
    “The Scandinavian Welfare State and Preservation” by Jorge Otero-Pailos and Thordis Arrhenius
    “The Cathedral of Nidaros: Building a Historic Monument” by Dag Nilsen
    “From Nationalism to Cosmopolitan Classicism: Harry Fett’s Concept of Cultural Capital” by Kristin B. Aavitsland
    “The Political Instrumentality of Heritage: The Swedish Welfare State and the National Heritage Board” by Hélène Svahn Garreau
    “Sigurd Curman’s Restorations: Swedish Heritage in a Modern Context” by Victor Edman
    “Preservation and Protest: Counterculture and Heritage in 1970s Sweden” by Thordis Arrhenius
    Document:
    “Continuity” (1949) by Harry Fett
    “Principles of Restoration: Examples and Desiderata” (1906) by Sigurd Curman
    Book Review
    Swedish Modernism: Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State Review by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
    Photo Essay
    Frösakull in Six Years by Mikael Olssen
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    Dry Rot: The Chemical Origins of British Preservation by Lydia Kallipoliti
    Biopolitical Landscapes: The Preservation Tactics of Percy Nobbs by Adam Lauder
    Preservation Parade: The Mediatization of the Lieb House into a Monument by Martino Stierli
    Preservation and Creation: Alfonso Rubbiani and Bologna by Andrew M. Shanken
    Document: The Houses of the Bourgeoisie (1879) by Alfanso Rubbiani
    Book Review
    What is Posthumanism?, Review by Catherine Ingraham
  • Issue 2 - Volume 6 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Introduction
    Historic Preservation in the Americas by Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Articles
    Against Cosmopolitanism: Historic Preservation and the Construction of Argentinean Identity by Alfredo Conti
    The Role of Modernists in the Establishment of Brazilian Cultural Heritage by Lauro Cavalcanti
    The Telephone on the Eighteenth-Century Table: How Brazilian Modern Architects Conceived the Preservation of Historic City Centers by Jose Passoa
    Document: Necessary Documentation (1937) by Lusio Costa
    The Preservation of Historic Architecture and the Beliefs of the Modern Movement in Mexico, 1914–1963, by Enrique X. de Anda Alanis
    José Villagrán and Enrique del Moral: Pioneers in the Defense of Heritage by Louise Noelle
    Document: Architecture and Monument Restoration (1967) by JJosé Villagrán Garcia
    Book Review
    The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City, Review by Michael Holleran
  • Issue 1 - Volume 6 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Landscape versus Museum: J.C. Dahl and the Preservation of Norwegian Burial Mounds by Mari Lending
    Horse Shrines in Tamil India: Reflections on Modernity by Mark Jarzombek
    Carlo Scarpa’s Monument to the Partisan Woman by Renata Codello
    Preserving Rivera and Kahlo: Photography and Reconstruction by Jorge Tarra Mingo
    Document: Restoration in Architecture. First Dialogue by Camillo Boito
    Interview: Morphing Lincoln Center by Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
    Book Review
    Bloody Old Britain: O.G.S. Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life, Review by Enrique Ramirez
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    Articles
    Going Critical: On the Historic Preservation of the World’s First Nuclear Reactor by Paul Williams
    Objectivity and Aesthetics: The Problem of Stucco in Swedish Conservation, 1949–1969, by Mai Geijer
    The Conservation Of Spain’s Architectural Heritage: A Balance of Three Crucial Decades, 1929-1958, by Julian Esteban-Chapapria
    Document: Spanish Law Regarding Defense, Conservation, and Expansion of the National Artistic Treasure (1933)
    Document: Spanish Decree on the Protection of Castles (1949)
    Interview: “We will do it ourselves”: Selma Al Radi on the Restoration of the ‘Amiriya Complex, Yemen by Caterina Borelli
    Book Review
    Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation, Review by James Conlon
  • Issue 1 - Volume 5 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Letter to the Editor
    Editor’s Note by Jorge Otero-Pailos
    The Leningrad Avant-Garde and Its Legacy by Boris Kirikov
    Eric Mendelsohn’s Red Banner Factory and Saint Petersburg’s Industrial Architecture by Margarita Shtiglits
    A Critique of the Preservation of Moscow’s Planetarium by Anke Zalivako
    Le Corbusier’s Centrosoyuz in Moscow by Jean-Louis Cohen
    Document: The USSR’s 1948 Instructions for the Protection of Architectural Monuments
    Document: The USSR’s 1973 Law on the Protection and Use of Historic and Cultural Monuments
    Foreword
    Foreword by Barry Bergdoll
    Editorial:
    Preserving Modernism: ARussian Exception? by Jean-Louis Cohen
    Articles
    Heritage at Risk: The Fate of Modernist Buildings in Russia by Natalia Dushkina
    Book Review
    Taking Stock: Documenting Russia’s Modern Heritage, Review by Richard Anderson
  • Issue 2 - Volume 4 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Editorial:
    Preservation’s Anonymous Lament by Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Articles
    Le Corbusier, Giedion, and the Villa Savoye: From Consecration to Preservation of Architecture by Panayotis Tournikiotis
    (Un)making Idolatry: From Mecca to Bamiyan by Jamal J. Elias
    Takings by Catherine Ingraham
    Leopoldo Torres Balbás: Architectural Restoration and the Idea of “Tradition” in Early Twentieth-Century Spain by Juan Calatrava
    The Postmodern Cult of Monuments by Mario Carpo
    Architecture from Architecture: Encounters between Conservation and Restoration by Manuel J. Martin-Hernandez
    Debate:
    Preservation, Contemporary Art, and Architecture, Francesca von Habsburg, Albert Heta, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Dinko Peracic, Francois Roche, Andreas Ruby, and Mark Wigley
    Book Review
    Selected Writings on Architecture, Preservation, and the Built Environment and Architektugeschichte und kulturelles Erbe-Aspekte der Baudenkmalpflege in Ostmitteleuropa, Review by Christopher Long
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    Editorial:
    Conservation Cleaning/Cleaning Conservation by Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Introduction:
    Space, Time, and Preservation by Patrick Ciccone
    Articles
    Architecture Officielle Maudite: The Zurich Kongresshaus Between Preservation and City Marketing by Reto Geiser and Martino Stierli
    Berlin’s Castle Versus Palace: A Proper Past for Germany’s Future? by Adrian von Buttlar
    The Reception and Non-Reception of Cesare Brandi in America by Laurence Kanter
    Loss, Compensation, and Authenticity: The Contribution of Cesare Brandi to Architectural Conservation in America by Frank G. Matero
    Postscript to the Treatment of Lacunae by Cesare Brandi
    Exhibition Review:
    Robert Moses and the Modern City, Review by Randall F. Mason
    Book Review:
    A Global History of Architecture, Review by John Stubbs
  • Issue 2 - Volume 3 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Articles
    Chance Architecture
    Consensus or Conflict? The Power of Ideology Critique in Historic Preservation
    Libido operandi or Conflict: Tafuri on Historic Preservation and Historiography
    Invention and Authenticity in Barcelona’s Barri Gotic
    Counter-Heritage and Violence
    The Paris Studio of Constantin Brancusi: A Critique of the Modern Period Room
    Defunct Defenses: Antwerp’s Sixteenth-Century Fortifications
    Viollet-le-Duc and Restoration in the Future Anterior
    Book Review: urban Memory: History and Amnesia in the Modern City
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    Creative Agents
    Forces Beyond Our Control: Examining the Political Edge in Preservation
    Preservation Theory Unfolding
    Making and Remaking the Yuanmingyuan
    From Periodical Obsolescence to Eternal Preservation
    The Second Fall of the Berlin Wall: Examining the HHildebrandt Memorial at Checkpoint Charlie
    Capturing the Next Shift: The Mapping of Meaning onto the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia
    Lucio Costa Preservationist
    Conservation in Central Santiago: The Diego Portales University Infrastructure Plan and the Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design Building
    Book Review: Design With Culture: Claiming America’s Landscape Heritage
  • Issue 2 - Volume 2 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Historic Provocation: Thinking Past Architecture by Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Theories Toward a Critical Practice by Jessica Williams
    Renaissance Strategies to Protect the Colosseum: Selective Preservation and Reuse by David Karmon
    Unleashing the Archive by Mark Wigley
    Chairs, Posture, and Points of View: For an Exact Restitution of the Barcelona Pavilion by Paolo Amaldi
    Preservation as Confrontation: The Work of Lina Bo Bardi by Zeuler Lima
    Race against Renewal: Motives for Historic District Designation in Inner-City Chicago by Vincent L. Michael
    Historic Preservation in Architectural Education: Assessing the Past, Envisioning the Future by Jack Pyburn
    Ordering the Orders: Claude Perrault’s Ordonnance and the Eastern Collonade of the Louvre by Lucia Allais
    Book Review: Architectural Imitations: Reproductions and Pastiches in East and West, Review by Randolph Starn
  • Issue 1 - Volume 2 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Editorial
    Editorial: Echoing by Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Introduction
    Introduction: Reaching a Global Public by Jessica Williams
    Articles
    Mutable Fragments: Destructive Preservation and the Postwar Rebuilding of Marseille by Sheila Crane
    The Undoing of a Monument: Preservation as Critical Engagement with Pergamon’s Heritage by S.M. Can Bilsel
    Preserving the Antique Modern: Persepolis ‘71 by Talinn Grigor
    Preserving and Presenting Prefab: Jean Prouve’s Tropical House by Robert Rubin
    Native American Sacred Places and the Language of Capitalism by Adam Fish
    Modern Landscape Architecture, a Forgotten Art: The Case of Lincoln Center by Nina Rappaport and Ken Smith
    23 de Enero: Modern Public Housing in Post-Modern Caracas by Paul Spencer Byard and Leslie Klein
    Book Review: Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture Urbanism Identity, Review by Alessandro Angelini
    Exhibition Review: Architecture and Revolution in Cuba, 1959-1969, Review by Marisa Oliver
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    Book Review: Peter Eisenman, Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings, 1963-1988, Review by Ijlal Muzaffar
    Exhibit Review: Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice, Review by Giorgio Biancorosso
    History in Motion: A Glance at Historic Preservation in California by Lauren Weiss Bricker
    From Historic Architecture to Cultural Heritage: A Journey Through Diversity, Identity, and Community by Antoinette J. Lee
    Constructing Cultural Significance: Looking at Bombay’s Historic Fort Area by Rahul Mohrotra
    Preserving and Monument: The United States Air Force Academy by Robert Allen Nauman
    Perspective: Where Do We Draw the Line? Historic Preservation’s Expanding Boundaries by Paul Bentel
    Razing the Exeter Dining Hall: Pros and Kahns by William Richards
    Philip Johnson’s Glass House: Framing Interpretation by Leslie Kelin
    Editorial
    Editorial: The Contemporary Stamp of Incompleteness by Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Introduction
    Introduction: Preservation in Search of the Historic: New Methods Expanding Boundaries by Robert Garland Thomson
    Articles
    Preservation is Overtaking Us by Rem Koolhaas
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    Book Review
    Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States, Review by Carol Clark
    Articles
    Historic Preservation and the Mind by Paul Spencer Byard
    Now is the Future Anterior for Advancing Historic Preservations of Scholarship by Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Taking Steps Toward a New Dialogue: An Argument for An Enhanced Critical Discourse in Historic Preservation by Robert Garland Thomson
    Preserving the Honky-Tonk: Coney Island’s Future in its Amusement Past by Melissa Baldock
    Past Meets Futurism Along the Cross-Bronx: Preserving a Significant Urban Expressway by Michael Caratzas
    Jackson’s Mill State 4-H Camp: The Rural Summer Camp as a Cultural Landscape by Courtney Fint
    Industrial Evolution: Preservation Through Judicious Demolition of the 20th Century Industrial Buildings by Shawna Richardson-Upp
    Perspective: Is Preservation Missing the Point? Cultural Heritage in the Service of Social Development by Jon Calame and Kirstin Sechler
    The Future Anterior Interview: Jorge Otero-Pailos Speaks with Artist Anton Vidokle
    The Cult of Age in Mass Society: Alois Riegl’s Theory of Conservation by Thordis Arrhenius
    Cast Stone’s Trials of Authenticity : How Labor and Modernism Conspired to Kill a Nascent Materials Industry by Jennifer Kearney