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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 626: Building Communities: Ideals and Planning in Monastic and Collegiate Architecture

Tuesday 8 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Universiteit van Amsterdam
Organisers:Veronika Decker, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien
Annika Rulkens, Leerstoelgroep Geschiedenis van de bouwkunst, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Moderator/Chair:Jitske Jasperse, Departement Kunst-, religie- en cultuurwetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Paper 626-aCollegialiter vivere: Wykeham's Statutes and the Architecture of New College, Oxford
(Language: English)
Veronika Decker, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien
Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Architecture - Secular, Art History - General, Education
Paper 626-bStatutes as Structure: Building a New Monastery for Augustinian Canons in 14th-Century Bohemia
(Language: English)
Alice Klima, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia
Index terms: Architecture - General, Architecture - Religious, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 626-cMaking Room for Community?: The Architecture of the Collegiate Chapter at St Stephen's in Vienna
(Language: English)
Claudia Höller, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien
Index terms: Art History - General, Language and Literature - German, Religious Life
Abstract

This session sets out to explore monastic and collegiate architecture under the notion of built communities, focussing on the interaction between concepts of community and architectural space. Three case studies investigate how building complexes structured and shaped the daily life and organisation of religious and academic communities and how they helped to materialise notions of order and unity within a spatial framework.
The question if and how architecture contributed to the construction of a collective self-identity of the community will also be considered. The comparative approach discussing both monastic and collegiate architecture makes it possible to highlight parallel concepts of planning and to expose differences in articulating these ideas.