Theory
Global-turn historiography
Explore in the Atlas →The post-2000 effort to write architectural history as a planetary, synchronic field (e.g. Ching/Jarzombek/Prakash's 'timecuts'; James-Chakraborty's social history since 1400) — and the counter-argument that the global-survey form re-inscribes a Western chronological scaffold.
Knowledge Time Migration
Details
- Introduced
- 2000s
Connections
- reacted against Critical Regionalism
Referenced by
- Mark M. Jarzombek proposed
- Kathleen James-Chakraborty proposed
- A Global History of Architecture articulates
- Architecture since 1400 articulates
- Esra Akcan critiqued
- Zeynep Çelik critiqued
- Swati Chattopadhyay critiqued
- Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient: A Critical Discourse from the East (1872–1932) critiqued
Sources
- Francis D.K. Ching, Mark M. Jarzombek and Vikramaditya Prakash. A Global History of Architecture. Wiley, 2007.
- Kathleen James-Chakraborty. Architecture Since 1400. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Global-turn historiography." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theory/global-turn-historiography/. Accessed July 17, 2026.