Cotton. An Architectural History of Nineteenth-century Globalization
Seminar Architecture and the City I / III (056-0001-01)
Organizer: MAS ETH GTA
Lecturers: Dr. Anne Kockelkorn, Dr. Susanne Schindler, Marie-Anne Lerjen
Time: Fridays, 13.00-16.30
From: BAINES, Edward, History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain, London, 1835. [drawn by T. Allom | engraved by J. Carter]
Cotton. An Architectural History of Nineteenth-century Globalization
This seminar expands the canonical history of nineteenth-century architecture through a close investigation of the birth of industrial capitalism and the second wave of European colonization beginning in 1800. What was the effect of newly globalized power relations on the development of new building programs and territorial property regimes? How did these new programs contribute to render workers and owners governable according to a new rationality of economics and hygiene? Point of departure and central motif in this inquiry is the globalized production of cotton. Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton (2014) serves us as a road map to analyze—by way of selected buildings and urban projects—the global entanglements of resource and human flows, imperial trade infrastructures and emerging nation states. The goal of connecting economic, social and architecture histories is to better understand the mutual construction and legitimization of architecture and society; and to question the conditions that shaped modernity in architecture and the modernization of cities as both cultural and infrastructural projects.
MASGTA-SyllabusHS2020-Baumwolle&Globalisierung
Dr. Susanne Schindler
Organizer: MAS ETH GTA
Lecturers: Dr. Anne Kockelkorn, Dr. Susanne Schindler, Marie-Anne Lerjen
Time: Fridays, 13.00-16.30
From: BAINES, Edward, History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain, London, 1835. [drawn by T. Allom | engraved by J. Carter]
Cotton. An Architectural History of Nineteenth-century Globalization
This seminar expands the canonical history of nineteenth-century architecture through a close investigation of the birth of industrial capitalism and the second wave of European colonization beginning in 1800. What was the effect of newly globalized power relations on the development of new building programs and territorial property regimes? How did these new programs contribute to render workers and owners governable according to a new rationality of economics and hygiene? Point of departure and central motif in this inquiry is the globalized production of cotton. Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton (2014) serves us as a road map to analyze—by way of selected buildings and urban projects—the global entanglements of resource and human flows, imperial trade infrastructures and emerging nation states. The goal of connecting economic, social and architecture histories is to better understand the mutual construction and legitimization of architecture and society; and to question the conditions that shaped modernity in architecture and the modernization of cities as both cultural and infrastructural projects.
MASGTA-SyllabusHS2020-Baumwolle&Globalisierung
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