Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Evidence, Narrative, and Writing Architectural History | Daniel M. Abramson, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, and Michael Osman
Part I. Legends
Chapter 1. The Fires of Saint-Domingue, or, Landscapes of the Haitian Revolution | Peter Minosh
Chapter 2. Known Unknowns: The Documentary History of the Franklin Ghost House | Edward Eigen
Chapter 3. Vacuum Suction Conveyance, Part II | Meredith TenHoor
Part II. Self-Evidence
Chapter 4. Talkative Timbers: A. E. Douglass, the Beam Expeditions, and the Construction of Architectural Evidence | Albert Narath
Chapter 5. Concrete Is One Hundred Years Old: The Carbonation Equation and Narratives of Anthropogenic Change | Lucia Allais and Forrest Meggers
Chapter 6. Medieval and Renaissance Money: On Trial, On Architecture | Lauren Jacobi
Part III. Data
Chapter 7. From Truth to Proof: Friedrich Adler’s Medieval Brick Architecture of the Prussian States | Laila Seewang
Chapter 8. The Banister Fletchers’ Tabulations | Zeynep Çelik Alexander and Michael Osman
Chapter 9. Evidence and Narrative in Digital Art History: Exploratory Methods for Weimar Architecture | Paul B. Jaskot and Ivo van der Graaff
Part IV. Pairings
Chapter 10. Comparative Architecture and Its Discontents | Roy Kozlovsky
Chapter 11. When Baghdad Was Like Warsaw: Comparison in the Cold War | Łukasz Stanek
Chapter 12. Forensic Architecture as Symptom | Andrew Herscher
Chapter 13. Architectural History after Sebald’s Austerlitz: A Squirrel’s Hoard, a Curved Road | Daniel M. Abramson
Part V. Testimony
Chapter 14. Failing Memories and Forgotten Histories: The Dispute over the Venetian Church of San Giobbe | Janna Israel
Chapter 15. Settling Imaginations: Between Dust and Silt | Ijlal Muzaffar
Chapter 16. Dadaab Is a Place on Earth: Land and the Migrant Archive | Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
Chapter 17. Learning from Johannesburg: Unpacking Denise Scott Brown’s South African View of Las Vegas | Ayala Levin
Part VI. Retrials
Chapter 18. Architectural Narratives of Habeas Corpus on the High Seas: Charles Frederick Lees versus the Crown | Lisa Haber-Thomson
Chapter 19. “This Whole Maze of Evidence”: Revisiting Professionalism and Property through Hunt v. Parmly | Erik Carver
Chapter 20. “Striking and Imposing Beauty”: On the Evidence of Aesthetic Valuation | Timothy Hyde
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index