Future Anterior

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Future Anterior
Editor: Jorge Otero-Pailos, Editor
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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  • Volume 17 - Issue 1 Contents Purchase This Issue

    Table of Contents, Volume 17 - Issue 1

    Editor’s Introduction
    The Notre-Dame Effect by Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Article
    In Flagrante: On Some Burning Questions for Restoration by Aron Vinegar
    Churches and States (Updated) by Richard Wittman
    Technology to Freeze Time at Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc’s Notre-Dame of Paris: Learning from the Past for the Cathedral of the Future by Lindsay Cook
    Notre-Dame de Paris in 2020: Between Endangerment Sensibility and Cultural Heritage Task Force by Dominique Poulot
    In Notre-Dame, We Find a Heritage That Invites Us to Breathe and Reflect by Jorge Otero-Pailos
    On the Gothic Edits of Notre-Dame de Paris by Emily L. Spratt
    The Restoration and Reconstruction of Notre-Dame of Paris: A Test for the Profession by Francesco Bandarin
    Book Review
    Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction by Mari Lending Review by Joseph L. Clarke
    Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe by Victor Plahte Tschudi Review by David Karmon
  • Volume 16 - Issue 2 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Editor’s Introduction
    Heritage, Preservation, and Decolonization: Entanglements, Consequences, Action? by William Carruthers
    Article
    High-Tech Heritage: Planes, Photography, and the Ancient Past in the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon by Sarah Griswold
    Heritage Imagery and Temporal Space in the Sultanate of Oman: Cultivating Modes of Ethical Living through State Media by Amal Sachedina
    Decolonizing South Asia through Heritage-and Nation-Building by Sudeshna Guha
    The Afterlife of Fascist Colonial Architecture: A Critical Manifesto by Emilio Distretti and Alessandro Petti
    City, Country, Agency by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
    Dhāranā: The Agency of Architecture in Decolonization by Vikramaditya Prakash
    Book Review
    Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989 by Daniela Sandler Review by Luise Rellensmann
  • Volume 16 - Issue 1 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Intro
    Disability and Preservation by David Gissen
    Article
    Exhibiting Trauma: The Berlin Painting and Sculpture Collections Seventy Years after World War II, a Curatorial Reflection by Julien Chapuis
    “Commercial Battles of Self-Support”: Concrete Construction and the Disabled World War I Veteran by James Graham
    Whose Heritage? Architectural Preservation and Disabled Access in Boston and San Francisco by Wanda Katja Liebermann
    Conversion, Renovation, Restoration: The Paris Deaf Institute, 1760–1840 by Sun-Young Park
    Banking on Postmodernism: Saving Stanley Tigerman’s Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (1978) by David Serlin
    The Radical Accessibility of Video Art (for Hearing People) by Emily Watlington
    Interview
    More than Meets the Eye: Georgina Kleege by David Gissen
    Book Review
    Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century by Thordis Arrhenius
  • Volume 15 - Issue 2 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Intro
    Ex Situ: On Moving Monuments—Introduction to Future Anterior by Jorge Otero-Pailos and Mechtild Widrich
    Article
    Invented Ex Situ by Mari Lending
    The Temple, the Double, and Its Triple Identities by Victor Plahte Tschudi
    On Archiving Rubble by Leen Katrib
    Byzantium, To and Fro: The “Pavillon de la Grèce,” from the Paris 1900 Expo to Athens by Nikolaos Magouliotis
    Not Quite Wright: Re-performing Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture Ex Situ by Ashley Paine
    Architectural Archives: A Variable Beast by Janet Parks
    Going Mobile: Greenfield Village in Practice by Justin Parscher
    Prosthetic Landscapes: Place and Placelessness in the Digitization of Memorials by Aroussiak Gabrielian and Alison B. Hirsch
    Moving Monuments in the Age of Social Media by Mechtild Widrich
    No Time, No Place: The Existential Crisis of the Public Monument by Kirk Savage
    Book Review
    John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture by T. B. Kennedy
    Artist Intervention
    From Detroit to Berlin: Rosa Parks’ House Re-membered by Ryan Mendoza
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    Editor’s
    Preservation By Other Means: Contemporary Art and Contested Heritage by Chad Elias and Mary K. Coffey
    Article
    Temporalities of Progress and Protest: Renovation and Artist Interventions at the Mexican National Archive by Mya Dosch
    The Freedom Wall: Public Art and Negotiations of African American Heritage in Buffalo, New York by Hannah Quaintance
    Participatory Art in Kufr Bir’im: Fissures for Suppressed Histories by Irit Carmon Popper and Prof. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
    Recreating the Past in Our Own Image: Contemporary Artists’ Reactions to the Digitization of Threatened Cultural Heritage Sites in the Middle East by Erin Thompson
    The Preservation Complex: A Dialogue with Rayyane Tabet
    Artist Intervention
    All That Refuses to Vanish by Akram Zaatari
    Book Review
    Culture in Crisis: Preserving Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones by Christopher Jones
  • Volume 14 - Issue 2 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Editors’
    Utopian Currents in Heritage by Elizabeth Stainforth and Helen Graham
    Article
    Mixing Memory and Desire: Exploring Utopian Currents in Heritage by Elizabeth Stainforth
    Quotidian Utopia: Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence and the Heritage of Love by Tracy Ireland
    An Urban Dream for the Preservation of Ataturk Forest Farm by Elif Mihcioglu Bilgi
    Beyond History: The Aesthetics of Authenticity and the Politics of Heritage in Havana, Cuba by Gabriel Fuentes
    Making Sense of the Future: Valuing Industrial Heritage in the Anthropocene by Inger Birkeland
    Architecture at the End of the World: The Pasts and Futures of Heritage Preservation in Antarctica by Timothy Hyde
  • Volume 14 - Issue 1 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Editor’s
    Introduction to the Special Issue on Preservation and War: Freedom from Violence by Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Panel
    Prewar. From the 2016 Fitch Colloquium: Preservation and War moderated by Erica Avrami
    Postwar. From the 2016 Fitch Colloquium: Preservation and War moderated by Rosalind Morris
    Article
    Conflict Heritage, Preservation Diplomacy, and Future Corridors of Smuggling by Tim Winter
    Finding Common Ground; Cultural Property Protection in Modern Conflict by Laurie W. Rush
    The Legal Tools Used before and during Conflict to Avoid Destruction of Cultural Heritage by Leila A. Amineddoleh
    Amplified Humanity and the Architectural Criminal by Lucia Allais
    The Rights of Monuments by David Gissen
    The Spanish Civil War and Cultural Heritage by Julián Esteban-Chapapría
    Extremism in Contemporary Cultural Heritage Debates about the Muslim World by Trinidad Rico and Rim Lababidi
    Destruction and Preservation as Aspects of Just War by Zainab Bahrani
    Meet Me at the Plague Column: Monuments and Conservation Planning by Andrew Shanken
    Memory Matrix by Azra Akšamija
    Book Review
    Obsolescence: An Architectural History by Jonathan Levy
    Exhibition Review
    The Present Is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST by Richard Rinehart
    Artist Intervention
    Men Loving: New Killings by Clive van den Berg
  • Volume 13 - Issue 2 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Editors’ Introduction
    Smell and Preservation by Adam Jasper and Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Interview
    Headspace by Roman Kaiser
    Material and Performance by Jacques Herzog
    Article
    Preserving the Unpleasant: Sources, Methods, and Conjectures for Odors at Historic Sites by Melanie A. Kiechle
    Presenting Volatile Heritage: Two Case Studies on Olfactory Reconstructions in the Museum by Caro Verbeek
    Pattern Recognition. A Background for Carsten Höller’s Smelling Dots (Portrait of Cedric Price), 2016 by Stefanie Hessler and Rebecca Uchill. With Smelling Dots (Portrait of Cedric Price): A Special Artistic Insert by Carsten Höller. 
    The Sacro Monte at Varalla and the Choreography of an Olfactory Landscape by David Karmon
    Synthetic Air by Wulf Böer
    Breathing a Moldy Air: Olfactory Experience, Aesthetics, and Ethics in the Writings of Ruskin and Riegl by Beata Labuhn
    Neue Sinnlichkeit: Postcritical Issues Regarding an Architecture of Sensuousness by Erik Wegerhoff
    Toward an Olfactory Language System by Sean Raspet
    Artist Intervention
    Olfactive Gulf and Atmospheric Hegemony by Raja’a Khalid and Ahmad Makia
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    Editors’ Introduction
    Preservation in a World of Diplomacy by Tim Winter
    Articles
    The First Heritage International(s): Conceptualizing Global Networks before UNESCO by Astrid Swenson
    Heritage Diplomacy: Entangled Materialities of International Relations by Tim Winter
    Multilateral Possibilities: Decolonization, Preservation and the Case of Egypt by William Carruthers
    Digital Heritage Diplomacy and the Scottish Ten Initiative by Amy Clarke
    Define Mutual: Heritage Diplomacy in the Postcolonial Netherlands by Lauren Yapp
    The Symbolic Value of Expertise in International Heritage Diplomacy by Luke James
    The State Department and the Politics of Preservation: Why Few U.S. Embassies Are Landmarks by Jane C. Loeffler
    Japan and the Rise of Heritage in Cultural Diplomacy: Where Are We Heading? by Natsuko Akagawa
    Review
    U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology: Soft Power, Hard Heritage. Book Review by Diane Siebrandt
    Artist Intervention
    The Controlled Ruin: Preserving Collective Memories through Building Transformation by Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag
  • Volume 12 - Issue 2 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Articles
    Competing Authenticities by Bryony Roberts
    Original und Reproduktion: Alexander Dorner and the (Re)production of Art Experience by Rebecca Uchill
    Albert Kahn’s Five-Year Plant and the Birth of “Uncertain Space” by Adam Lauder and Lee Rodney
    Datareality. Interview with Adam Lowe
    Structure. Interview with John Ochsendorf
    Flexibility. Interview with Ilaria Cavaggioni
    Community. Interview with Tim McClimon
    Focus on the 2014 Fitch Colloquium
    Resourcefulness. Interview with Michèle Pierre-Louis
    Exhibition Review
    How to Preserve a Bunker 1 x Unknown (2012– ). Review by Xenia Vytuleva
    Artist Intervention
    Pink on Beige by Anya Sirota
  • Volume 12 - Issue 1 Contents Purchase This Issue

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    Editors’ Introduction
    Ines Weizman and Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Articles
    Preservation through Replication: The Barnes Foundation. Amanda Reeser Lawrence
    Legalizing Architecture: How Congress Defined the Discipline. Sarah M. Hirschman
    Origin and Development of a New Tradition: Space, Time and Architecture in the Translation Zone. Jacob Moore
    Public Art and Copyright Law: How the Public Nature of Architectures Changes Copyright Protection. Aura Bertoni and Maria Lillà Montagnani
    The Preservation of the Chŏnju Hanok Village: From Material Authenticity to the Themed Replica. Codruța Sîntionean
    Lessons from 5Pointz: Toward Legal Protection of Collaborative, Evolving Heritage. Mekhala Chaubal and Tatum Taylor
    The Mound of Vendôme. Exhibition Review by Christina E. Crawford
    Reviews
    Re-collection. Art, New Media and Social Memory. Book review by Heather Ecker
    Artist Intervention
    Pablo Bronstein
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    Articles
    Transparent Restorations: How Franco Minissi Has Visually Connected Multiple Scales of Heritage. Beatrice Vivio
    Drinking from the River Lethe: Case del Fascio and the Legacy of Fascism in Postwar Italy. Lucy Maulsby
    Time and Authenticity. Manuel J. Martín-Hernández
    Showcasing Istanbul’s Jewish Past: The Case of Mayor Synagogue. Roysi Ojavlo
    Building Myths or How to Preserve the Social Content of Architecture. Louis Martin
    Book Review: Time Matter(s): Invention and Re-imagination in Built Conservation. The Unfinished Drawing and Building of St. Peter’s, the Vatican. Review byVictor Plahte Tschudi
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    Editors’ Introduction
    Photography and Preservation. Iñaki Bergera and Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Articles
    Neither/Nor: Unfaithful Images in Photography and Preservation. Sarah Blankenbaker and Erin Besler
    Documentary Photography and Preservation, or the Problem of Truth and Beauty. Jesús Vassallo
    Monuments and Mediocrity: Landmarking Los Angeles. Mariana Mogilevich
    Restoring the Colors of Friedrich Weinwurm's Unitas: Hazards of Black- and-White Photography. Henrieta Moravčíková, Ivan Pilný, and Peter Szalay
    Photography, Preservation, and Ethics at Angkor. Colin Sterling
    Postindustrial Imagery and Digital Networks: Toward New Modes of Urban Preservation? Sarah Rojon
    Book Review
    On Architecture: Melvin Charney, A Critical Anthology. Review by Nicola Pezolet
    Artist Intervention
    File Room. Dayanita Singh
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    In This Issue
    Editors’ Introduction: Photography and Preservation, Iñaki Bergera and Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Proving Preservation: Boston Subway Construction Photography, 1894-1897, C. Ian Stevenson
    High-Speed Ruins: Rubble Photography in Berlin, 1871-1914, Miriam Paeslack
    Photography versus the Historical Record: The Role of Photography in Rouen’s Gros- Horloge Restoration, Franca Malservisi and Maria-Rosaria Vitale
    Richard Nickel's Photography: Preserving Ornament in Architecture, Sarah Rogers Morris
    Preserving Collective Memory Through Photography, Ana Tostões and Ana Maria Braga
    Exhibition Review: Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, Helene Lipstadt
    Articles
    Imag(in)ing Paris for Posterity, Sabrina Hughes
    Reviews
    Book Review: LC Foto: Le Corbusier Secret Photographer, Daniel Naegele
    Artist Intervention
    Apparitions, T. John Hughes
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    Articles
    An Everyday Wilderness: Dwight Perkins and the Cook County Forest Preserve, Jennifer Gray
    In the Service of National Culture: Japanese Preservation and its Political Context, 1871–1994, Barbara Galli
    A Nation of Monasteries: The Legacy of Víctor Balaguer in the Spanish Conception of National Monuments, Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes
    Processing Transactions, Forming Intent: Coproduction and Exchange in the Work of Allison Smith, Rebecca Uchill
    Book Review
    Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition, Shiben Banerji
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    Editorial
    Preservation And Globalization, Ijlal Muzaffar and Jorge Otero-Pailos
    Articles
    Of Mills and Malls: The Future of Urban Industrial Heritage in Neo-liberal Mumbai, Manish Chalana
    Citizens vs. Experts: Historic Preservation in Globalizing Shanghai, Qin Shao
    Shiny New Buildings: Rebuilding Historic Sikh Gurdwaras in Indian Punjab, William J. Glover
    After the Flood: Cultural Heritage and Cultural Politics in Chongqing Municipality and the Three Gorges Areas, China, Paola Demattè
    Global Tourism Practices as Living Heritage: Viewing the Norwegian Tourist Route Project, Janike Kampevold Larsen
    Ambience as Property: Experience, Design, and the Legal Expansion of Trade Dress,” Winnie Won Yin Wong
    A History Built on Ruins: Venice and the Destruction of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, Janna Israel
    Review
    Conservation Takes a Reflective Turn: Book Review of A Laboratory for Art: Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950. Review by George Wheeler
    Artist Intervention
    The Crystal Life, Roger Hiorns
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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
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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