La confection des édifices: analogies textiles en architecture aux XIXe et XXe siècles
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Estelle Thibault [1]
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[1] Université Paris-Est
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- Localización: Perspective: la revue de l'INHA : actualités de la recherche en histoire de l'art, ISSN 1777-7852, Nº. 1, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Textiles), págs. 109-126
- Idioma: francés
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Resumen
The fashionning of buildings: textile analogies in Architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Over recent decades various studies have permitted a reassessment of the role of textile metaphors and analogies in the development of architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s. This historiographic renewal, which relates to the considerable expansion of creative use of textiles in contemporary architecture, is part of the current revival of interest in ornament and has notably benefited from various analyses of the writings of Gottfried Semper, published in the wake of their translation for non-German-speaking readers. This article considers Semper's seminal work and its immediate echoes before providing an overview of recent studies that have reconsidered the place of textile references in architectural theory and practice around 1900. Two main areas of investigation have emerged. The first concerns the productiveness for modern architecture of ideas on the possible textile origins of internal partitioning and the development of covering materials and designs in the light of different interpretations of Semper's notion of dressing (Bekleidung). The second explores the parallels between dress and buildings, notably dwellings. The involvement of architects in the design and critique of garments and their analyses of fashion as both culture of appearances and socioeconomic process appear as particularly interesting prisms through which to view architectural debates at the dawn of the avant-garde movements.
