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CREAte would like to invite you all to tonight’s open lecture given by Professor Nicholas Temple in Marlowe Lecture Theatre 1 at 6pm.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nNicholas Temple is Professor of Architecture at the\u00a0 University of Huddersfield. He has previously taught at the Universities of\u00a0 Leeds, Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), Nottingham, Liverpool, and Lincoln, where he was\u00a0 both Professor of Architecture and Head of the School of Architecture. Born in\u00a0 Australia, Temple studied architecture at Cambridge University and has a PhD on\u00a0 the subject of architecture and urbanism in early 16th Century Rome. He was a\u00a0 Rome Scholar in Architecture (1986-88) at the British School at Rome, and\u00a0 recently was awarded a Paul Mellon Rome Fellow (2012). Temple\u2019s recent research\u00a0 and scholarship focuses on the historical inter-relationships between\u00a0 architecture, topography, ceremony and geography, examining territorial,\u00a0 symbolic and ideological exchanges between interiors, buildings, cities and\u00a0 regions. This examination transgresses the conventional boundaries between\u00a0 architecture, painting, inscription, cartography and sculpture, incorporating\u00a0 broader inter-disciplinary research across historical periods and regions. Much\u00a0 of the research has been focused on the city of Rome, as evidenced in his\u00a0 numerous publications and in Temple\u2019s recent award as the Paul Mellon Rome\u00a0 Fellow. At the same time Temple has engaged in detailed research on the study\u00a0 of architecture as a humanistic discipline, examining in particular connections\u00a0 between architecture, language and pictorial representation. This research has\u00a0 highlighted how the humanistic tradition of linguistic enquiry, during the\u00a0 early modern period, served as a critical backdrop to the emergence of modern\u00a0 forms of Encyclopedism and the increasing interest in the possibility of both a\u00a0 universal linguistic system and an architectural language.<\/p>\n
This lecture examines the reception of China in Rome in\u00a0 the 17th and 18th centuries, in the context of the transformations in European\u00a0 culture. It focuses on two key areas – language and landscape – that provided\u00a0 the basis for intellectual and creative speculations in the idea of universal\u00a0 principles. The first emerged largely through Jesuit missionary activities to\u00a0 the East in the 17th century, with their interests in ethnographic and\u00a0 linguistic comparisons, which occurred at a time of a crisis in Humanism. The\u00a0 second considers the growing interest in the aesthetics of landscape during the\u00a0 Grand Tour in the 18th century, when Chinese gardens and architecture were\u00a0 conceived by European travellers (such as Sir William Chambers) as universal\u00a0 ’emblems’ for the European landscape. I will argue that the transformation from\u00a0 one to the other represented one of the first formulations of a globalised\u00a0 perspective of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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