Det offentliga samtalet om vår gestaltade miljö : Arkitekturkritikens roll och uttrycksmedel

• In this article Anna Ingemark, a senior lecturer in art history, looks at the role of architectural criticism from the viewpoint of public discourse in the Swedish media. The study is based primarily on her doctoral thesis Stockholms stadsbibliotek och Moderna museet – en analys av arkitekturkritik i svensk press (2010), and other investigations of our built environment from a perspective of discourse analysis and context. Ingemark emphasises the need for a nuanced discussion of our built environment by investigating the quality and complexity of architecture – especially in an era characterised by speed and superficiality. She explores architectural criticism using the following questions: What characterises architectural criticism as a genre? Who are the figures in this specific field? How is criticism formulated in terms of discourse and rhetoric? How can written criticism be understood by close reading? And what is the impact of architectural criticism, from both a contemporary and a historiographic perspective? Thus the article aims to better understand architectural criticism as a genre, with its own specific conditions and characteristics, and its significance in a wider social and cultural context. Ingemark also demonstrates how the writings of architectural criticism can be used as study material by students and other scholars via close reading based on architectural criticism’s discourse and rhetoric. 

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Konstvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Art History (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Architectural criticism

public discourse

media

rhetoric

discourse analysis

Publikations- och innehållstyp

ref (ämneskategori)

art (ämneskategori)