No. 36 (2025)

Artium Quaestiones concentrates on theoretical and methodological problems issues in art history. They have been discussed in our journal primarily with reference to visuality, image science/image studies (Bildwissenschaft) or the issues related tof visual media. This time, without not giving up on our interest in new scholarly tendencies and theoretical studies, we have decided to take a closer look at new methods and theories of studying architecture and their histories. We invited scholars to reconsider to what extent cultural/theoretical turns in the humanities, which have been assimilated by art history since the 1970s, have also been influential in the field of architectural studies. We sought to see how these methodological/theoretical perspectives, practisced for several decades now, had stimulated the rethinking of diverse various old problems of history of architecture and the formulation of new research questions and objectives. The theme of the issue refers to numerous anthologies devoted to philosophy and historiography of architecture, for instance Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory (1997) or Rethinking Architectural Historiography (2006). We hope that the new attempt at “rethinking” these questions specified the position of architecture and the possibilities of studying it within the history of art.