2025: Special Issue "Architekt:innen-Monographien. Kanonisierung, Kontextualisierung, Kritik"
Articles 0326-0334 Guest-edited by Ruth Hanisch, Richard Kurdiovsky, Bernadette Reinhold and Antje Senarclens de Grancy Monographs on architects are an established and rarely questioned format within architectural scholarship. This special issue explores the diverse motivations behind producing such publications, alongside the sources, media, and modes of presentation employed, focusing on case studies from Central Europe. Monographs on architects are shaped by their authors and created within specific socio-cultural, political, economic, and scholarly contexts. Who is chosen as the subject of a monograph? Who is privileged, and who remains marginalized? How do we confront the 'blind spots' increasingly central to contemporary academic discourse, such as questions of gender, anti-Semitism, or the Nazi past? Ultimately, these inquiries lead to a broader reflection on the processes through which the architectural canon is constructed.
