Figuration, representation and images of architecture (FRIA)
Scientic Supervisor / Contact Person
Name and Surname
Helena Pérez Gallardo
Other ID (link)
Localization & Research Area
Faculty / Institute
Faculty of Geography and History
Department
Art History
Research Area
Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)
MSCA & ERC experience
Research group / research team hosted any MSCA fellow?
Yes
Research group / research team have any ERC beneficiaries?
No
Research Team & Research Topic
Research Team / Research Group Name (if any)
Figuration, representation and images of architecture (FRIA)
Website of the Research team / Research Group / Department
Brief description of the Research Team / Research Group / Department
The aim of the ‘Figuration, representation and images of architecture’ research group is to showcase and enhance, as well as try to become a research benchmark, the bibliographic, graphic and visual heritage preserved on architecture (architectural drawings, drawings of projects or surveys of the built environment, painted views, prints or photographs, treatises, manuscripts, scenographies, etc.) that allow us to reflect on the materialisation of projects, the construction of figurative and literary utopias, the evolution and preservation of architectural, monumental and urban heritage, the evolution and conservation of architectural, monumental and urban heritage. ) that allow us to reflect on the materialisation of projects, the construction of figurative and literary utopias, the evolution and conservation of architectural, monumental and urban heritage. The Research Group has sought academic and scientific excellence through the development of the three fundamental pillars of research: the teacher, the researcher and the transfer of knowledge.
2023 saw the consolidation of the group's research activities through the creation and launch of the journal ABATON. Revista de Figuración, Representación e Imágenes de la Arquitectura, whose edition was approved by Ediciones Complutense after the presentation of an editorial project in which the group, defended the scientific need to create an instrument for dissemination, articulation and exchange of research and sources on the representation of architecture, both through the images that have dreamt, projected and represented it from the 16th century to the present day (painted architectures, drawings, prints, photographs and other media), and through the architectures written in utopias, treatises or manuscripts and other accounts. This publication is one of the objectives of this consolidated research group which, since its formation, has been very active with publications, exhibitions, educational innovation projects and the organisation of seminars with the presence of academics, professors from foreign universities and prominent members of research institutions. In 2025 the ‘Laboratorio de la imagen de la arquitectura y la ciudad’ will be opened at the Faculty of Geography and History of the Complutense University of Madrid.
2023 saw the consolidation of the group's research activities through the creation and launch of the journal ABATON. Revista de Figuración, Representación e Imágenes de la Arquitectura, whose edition was approved by Ediciones Complutense after the presentation of an editorial project in which the group, defended the scientific need to create an instrument for dissemination, articulation and exchange of research and sources on the representation of architecture, both through the images that have dreamt, projected and represented it from the 16th century to the present day (painted architectures, drawings, prints, photographs and other media), and through the architectures written in utopias, treatises or manuscripts and other accounts. This publication is one of the objectives of this consolidated research group which, since its formation, has been very active with publications, exhibitions, educational innovation projects and the organisation of seminars with the presence of academics, professors from foreign universities and prominent members of research institutions. In 2025 the ‘Laboratorio de la imagen de la arquitectura y la ciudad’ will be opened at the Faculty of Geography and History of the Complutense University of Madrid.
Research lines / projects proposed
Projection on the past. Uses, restorations and restitutions in European architecture from the 16th to the 21st centuries
Material and immaterial spatiality of national construction.
Visual archives and maps of national architecture identity
Photography and Architecture
Historiography constructions
Image Theory
Circulating models of Visual Art and Architecture
Laboratory of Architectural and City images
Material and immaterial spatiality of national construction.
Visual archives and maps of national architecture identity
Photography and Architecture
Historiography constructions
Image Theory
Circulating models of Visual Art and Architecture
Laboratory of Architectural and City images
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CV, principal skills, letter of motivation, references from other professor's and institutions
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