Journal Articles by Etien Santiago
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Dec 2019
In Notre-Dame du Raincy and the Great War, Etien Santiago explores how the 1923 church of Notre-D... more In Notre-Dame du Raincy and the Great War, Etien Santiago explores how the 1923 church of Notre-Dame du Raincy, designed by Auguste and Gustave Perret, resonated with other French buildings erected during or soon after World War I. Officially designated a monument to a significant battle and the soldiers who died there, the church contains only two overt commemorative symbols, both of which are relatively discreet. Yet original sources reveal that the Perrets9 contemporaries saw additional allusions to the war in the building9s exposed concrete and bell tower, the latter of which evoked the “lanterns of the dead” typical of contemporaneous French Great War memorials. Moreover, to build Notre-Dame du Raincy, the Perrets drew direct inspiration from utilitarian wartime constructions. Contextualizing the church amid these related structures allows us to chart some of the multiple and often contradictory ways in which French citizens and designers grappled with the war and its legacy.
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Book Chapters by Etien Santiago
States of Emergency: Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War, 2022
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Construction technologies progressed by leaps and bounds during World War I. As builders struggle... more Construction technologies progressed by leaps and bounds during World War I. As builders struggled to complete edifices despite wartime shortages, they perfected the use of novel materials or methods including reinforced concrete and electric cement. Unexpected international encounters and experiments on the front lines further fueled this progress. When the war ended, its cutting-edge building technologies became a permanent part of the regular, civilian construction industry.
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Published Texts in Books by Etien Santiago
GSD Platform 4, edited by Eric Howeler, 2011
After training under Pier Luigi Nervi and Riccardo Morandi, the Italian architect-engineer Sergio... more After training under Pier Luigi Nervi and Riccardo Morandi, the Italian architect-engineer Sergio Musmeci (1926-1981) developed a unique approach to structural design that revolved around his idea of “minimum structure.” This idea resonated strongly with the principles of structuralism, an intellectual movement born in the early twentieth century linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and which, during Musmeci’s time, came to permeate many realms of intellectual research.
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Still Life, edited by Jennifer Bonner, 2016
In 1923, the French architect and builder Auguste Perret caused an uproar by exposing the cast co... more In 1923, the French architect and builder Auguste Perret caused an uproar by exposing the cast concrete structure of a new monumental civic building. His design for the church of Notre-Dame du Raincy celebrated the aesthetic and architectural potential of what architects had until then largely viewed as a liability: the rugged, streaked, stained, and cracked surfaces of naked concrete. In the wake of this project and its seminal influence, designers and the public alike increasingly equated unclad, untreated concrete with modern architecture.
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The Building, edited by José Aragüez, 2016
Architects could learn a thing or two from recent suburban developer houses. Though such building... more Architects could learn a thing or two from recent suburban developer houses. Though such buildings are widely scorned for their architectural boorishness, their plans contain strange, unprecedented kinds of spaces. These spaces echo the consequences of the modern communication systems that have taken over our lives in the last twenty-five years.
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Thesis Chapters by Etien Santiago
Sergio Musmeci’s Bridge on the Basento in Potenza, Italy, is not only a daring masterpiece of str... more Sergio Musmeci’s Bridge on the Basento in Potenza, Italy, is not only a daring masterpiece of structural engineering in which a mere thirty-centimeter and acutely twisting concrete surface delicately props up a seemingly levitating roadway. It is also an aesthetic achievement that, depending on the direction from which it is viewed, produces complex and changing visual effects. A formal reading of the bridge kicks off this introduction to a thesis about Musmeci’s work, previewing the paradoxes that riddle his approach to structural design.
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Editorial Work by Etien Santiago
Apeira, edited by Etien Santiago, 2012
Edited by Etien Santiago, Apeira is a collection of essays written by young scholars who explore ... more Edited by Etien Santiago, Apeira is a collection of essays written by young scholars who explore how critical theory, cultural theory, and architectural theory can continue to enrich one another after the so-called “post-theoretical” turn. This tome combines readings of two novels in Emile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, a manifesto for intersubjective architecture, essays on mysticism and the bucolic tradition of poetry, a feminist analysis of art produced by female sculptors in the second half of the twentieth century, a comparison of Lucretius and Goethe, and a speculative architectural project.
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