Elena Chestnova
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Publications
Journal Article (7)
- Hildebrand S., Chestnova E., Varela Braga A., Martinis R. (2025) Introduction (to From Database to Artificial Intelligence: Digital Challenges and Opportunities for Historicist Architectural History), Historismus-ch. Zeitschrift des Schweizer Netzwerks für Historismus
- Chestnova E. (2024) Autorität der höherer Ordnung, Die Architekt, 6, 2024, special issue “Grundlagen der Architektur VIII: Zweck”
- Chestnova E. (2020) The virtue of mathematics and the idea of good design: British Schools of Design in the mid-nineteenth century, Figurationen: Gender, Literatur, Kultur (Journal of the Swiss Society for Semiotics and Cultural Theory) (2)
- Chestnova E., Vermeul S. (2020) Semper Edition, Zeitschrift für schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, 77 (3-4)
- Chestnova E. (2017) The House that Semper Built, Architectural Theory Review 1
- Chestnova E. (2014) "Bridging Art and Science" - Semper's Teaching in London 1850-1855, Trans 24
- Chestnova E. (2014) “Ornamental design is … a kind of practical science" - Theories of Ornament at the London School of Design and Department of Practical Art, Journal of Art Historiography 11
Book (2)
- Chestnova E. (2022) Material Theories Locating Artefacts and People in Gottfried Semper's Writings. Routledge
- Gnehm M., Hildebrand S., Weidmann D., Chestnova E., Germann R., Christen F., Ursprung P., Kevic T., Aus der Au C., Metz B. (2021) Gottfried Semper, Style. Digital Edition. USI / ETH, 2017–28.
Book chapter (4)
- Chestnova E. (2022) Between ethnography and racial history: Extensions of archaeological interpretation in the writings of Gottfried Semper.. Der Kolonialgedanke als Manipulator archäologischer Ratio Beiträge zweier Workshops an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, eds. Raimar W. Kory, Alexander Heising, Thomas S. Carhart. Curah-Bhan
- Chestnova E. (2021) Gottfried Semper: teaching and writing on the move. Disrupting Schools: Transnational Art Education in the 19th Century eds. Nerlich F., Vratskidou E.. Brepols
- Chestnova E. (2021) Vessels of Character. Architectural History and Globalised Knowledge: Gottfried Semper in London. Gnehm M., Hildebrand S.
- Chestnova E. (2018) Substantial differences: Semper’s Stoffwechsel and truth to materials. Quaderni dell'Accademia di architettura. Hildebrand S., Mondini D., Grignolo R.
Report in scientific conference (22)
- Chestnova E. (2024) Tombs as the earliest collections: Semper and Etruscan archaeology. Exploratory Seminar ‘Semper in Italy’. Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa i Tatti, Florence. 14-15.11.2024
- Chestnova E., George B., Matthew F., Thomas H. (2024) Bringing semantics to TEI XML: challenges and prospects. CIDOC Confernece. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. 11-15.11.2024
- Chestnova E. (2024) Infrastructures Roundtable. Open Up Digital Editions. University of Zurich. 24-26.01.2024
- Chestnova E., Andreas K., Stefan A., Balduin L. (2023) Conference panel “Networking Editions: TEI and the Semantic Web with TAG and RDF”. Joint TEI and MEC Conference Encoding Cultures. University of Paderborn. 04-08.09.2023
- Chestnova E. (2022) Graph-based Digital Edition: Interim Report from the Semper Project. Digital Publishing for the Humanities: New Technologies and Ideas. Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome. 18-19.10.2022
- Chestnova E. (2022) Bodies, Interiors and Origins of Art: national artefacts in the theory of Gottfried Semper. Guest Lecture within series series “Architecture as Living Matter Historical and Theoretical Perspectives.". Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence. 24.05 - 05.07.2022
- Chestnova E. (2022) Tracing paper. Crafting Communities Roundtable on 19th-century Material Culture: Paper within Crafting Communities. Partnership event series between Universities of Victoria, Alberta and Manitoba, Canada. 2021-2022
- Chestnova E. (2021) Semper Edition project. Digital Visual Media and Metadata, Launch Event of Digital Humanities Switzerland (DH-CH). Istituto Svizzero, Rome. 07-09.06.2021
- Chestnova E. (2019) Gottfried Semper's public lectures as tools of knowledge transfer. Colloque international ATRHE. University of Geneva. 24-25.06.2019
- Chestnova E., Aus der Au C. (2019) Digital editing of heterogeneous documents: application of graph databases to the Semper Edition. Fourth Swiss Congress of Art History. Mendrisio. 06-08.06.2019
- Chestnova E. (2019) Art and architecture of identity among popular audiences of the nineteenth century. Workshop of the Theodor-Fischer Prize. Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich. 04.04.2019
- Chestnova E. (2017) Time travel in seven-mile boots: things as animated artworks in Gottfried Semper’s history writing. annual international conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology “The Grammar of Things”. Darmstadt, Germany. 14-17.06.2017
- Chestnova E. (2017) Popular mathematics in the nineteenth century and the British Schools of Design. Congress of the Swiss Society for Semiotics and Cultural Theory. Mendrisio, Switzerland. 19-20.05.2017
- Chestnova E. (2017) Bodily ceramics: clay appendages and fossil vessels in the 1850s. annual international conference of American society for Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies “Odd Bodies”. Philadelphia, PA, USA. 16-19.03.2017
- Chestnova E. (2016) Architectural history and the travelogue: Semper’s history writing and the ‘manners and customs’ genre. Writing Buildings. University of Kent, UK. 14-16.07.2016
- Chestnova E. (2015) Dismantling hierarchies: inclusion of ‘lesser arts’ in the history of architecture and the popularisation of knowledge in the 1850s. “History of Architectural Historiography” International Colloquium of the Journal of Art Historiography. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. 12-14.06.2015
- Chestnova E. (2015) Would these have been ornaments? Assyrian archaeology, popularised knowledge and the writing of architectural history. Architecture and the Globalisation of Knowledge. Gottfried Semper and the Discipline of Architectural History. Istituto di storia e teoria dell’arte e dell’architettura, Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio. 02-03.06.2015
- Chestnova E. (2015) Mobile educator – morphing theoretician. Gottfried Semper teaching in Germany and England. ArtTransForm International Colloquium for transnational artistic training in the 19th century. Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, Paris. 28-29.05.2015
- Chestnova E. (2014) Architectural history and the media: Gottfried Semper and the popular press. “Schwerpunkte” International Doctoral Symposium. ETH Zurich. 15.10.2014
- Chestnova E. (2014) Science, Industry, and Art: Gottfried Semper and the Status of Object in Art Education. “Industries of Architecture” Architectural Humanities Research Association International Conference. Newcastle University, UK. 13-15.11.2014
- Chestnova E. (2014) From the humble huts to the rajah's sword: Semper's Indian collection. Neues aus der Gottfried Semper – Forschung.. Villa Garbald, Castasegna, Switzerland. 08-09.09.2014
- Chestnova E. (2014) Gottfried Semper in London: Collecting and Writing. Transfer of Knowledge and the Formation of Theory" at “Collections as Agents of Identity and Heritage. “Collections as Agents of Identity and Heritage.” Young researchers’ workshop. University of Amsterdam. 06-07.06.2014
Other publication (2)
- Chestnova E., Hildebrand S., Weidmann D., Gnehm M., Germann R., Metz B., Christen F., Aus der Au C., Kevic T., Ursprung P. (2024) Digitale Semper-Edition (work in progress, started in 2017)
- Chestnova E., Andrea R., Cynthia B. (2022) ‘Emulation, Imitation, Replication’, episode 4, season 2 of the ‘Victorian Samplings’ podcast available at https://www.craftingcommunities.net/s2e4-emulation-imitation-replication
