Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture

Carsten Ruhl

ISBN 10: 3837679187 / ISBN 13: 9783837679182

Published by Transcript Verlag Jan 2026, 2026

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Neuware -Starting from the fundamental premise that references are essential for all cultural techniques, the contributors to this volume elaborate architecture's ambivalent tension between reference and contemporaneity, its central role in both architectural production and discourse. The issues surrounding contemporaneity do not pertain to a condition, but to an agenda- one where references are selected according to interests and adapted to present needs. This perspective enriches existing conceptions of references as tools of design economy, imitation, and historicization by tying them more explicitly to contemporary agendas than has been done before. 312 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag Jan 2026
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837679187
• ISBN 13: 9783837679182
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 219W x 147H x 25D millimeters 219 millimeters width by 147 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 482 grams

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Synopsis

Starting from the fundamental premise that references are essential for all cultural techniques, the contributors to this volume elaborate architecture’s ambivalent tension between reference and contemporaneity, its central role in both architectural production and discourse. The issues surrounding contemporaneity do not pertain to a condition, but to an agenda – one where references are selected according to interests and adapted to present needs. This perspective enriches existing conceptions of references as tools of design economy, imitation, and historicization by tying them more explicitly to contemporary agendas than has been done before.

About the Authors

Dietrich Erben (Prof. Dr. phil. habil.), geb. 1961, ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Theorie und Geschichte von Architektur, Kunst und Design an der Technischen Universität München. Er war Stipendiat des Kunsthistorischen Institutes/Max-Planck-Institut in Florenz und der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in der Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte seit der Frühen Neuzeit, in der Architekturtheorie, der politischen Ikonographie und Geschichte der internationalen Kunstbeziehungen.

Carsten Ruhl (Prof. Dr. phil. habil.) ist Professor für Architekturgeschichte an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Gründungsmitglied des Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA) und einer der beiden Leiter des DFG-Forschungsclusters »Organizing Architectures«. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur, speziell interdisziplinäre Verbindungen zwischen Architektur- und Sozialgeschichte, sowie Soziologie, Medienwissenschaft und Philosophie.