Digital Tools for Restructuring the Survey Course

This paper discusses Eurocentrism as created by the structure of the survey and underlines some potentials of the digital platform to overcome the restrictions of the textbook and the traditional lecture-based courses on architectural history and challenge the fixed directionality of the Eurocentric master narrative. Tracing the Eurocentric structure from the inception of the survey of world architecture, the paper then reviews most common contemporary trends of the survey. It then discusses some potentials in the digital media to incorporate a few strategies, like replacing the mega-narrative of the textbook with multiplicity; eschewing the textbook’s unintended effects of uniformity, totality, continuity, and collusion; and communicating the shifting scales, unit and methods.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.110.54

Volume Editors
Robert Gonzalez, Milton Curry & Monica Ponce de Leon

ISBN
978-1-944214-40-1