Acknowledgements

The idea of publishing a collective volume on the afterlife of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus first emerged in Oxford on one of the coldest days of January 2019. After refining it during a second discussion in Edinburgh later that year, we embarked on a project that has benefited, through the delays of a global pandemic, from the generous support of esteemed scholars, colleagues and friends whom we wish to thank here. First and foremost, the patience, dedication and attention to detail shown by our contributors must be commended: we are both grateful and honoured to have collaborated with such a fine team on this volume. Several of our authors – namely Peter Fane-Saunders, Sheila ffolliott, Poul Pedersen and Daniel Sherer – assisted us far beyond the contents of their individual chapters, thus leaving their mark on the broader project. Our heartfelt thanks are also due to Anke Naujokat and all members of the Chair for Architectural History at RWTH Aachen University for enthusiastically welcoming our proposal to host a conference that brought together our writers for a first exchange of ideas in September 2021. Basile Baudez and Victor Tschudi offered encouraging advice at decisive moments, obligingly accepting to discuss our most significant concerns, both intellectual and practical: this book would not have attained its present form without their assistance. Our gratitude must also go to Dave Lüthi and Christian Michel for further crucial support, to the two anonymous reviewers appointed by Cambridge University Press, and to Barry Bergdoll, Jan Blanc, Nicolas Bock, Richard Etlin, Sylvian Fachard, Marcello Fagiolo, Samuel Holzman, Mari Hvattum, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Akiko Kobayashi, Alexander Markschies, Jan Pieper, John Pinto, Ekaterina Skvortcova and Alessia Zambon. Further appreciation is owed to our colleagues, friends and students at RWTH Aachen University – especially Veronica Roggel for her assistance in compiling the appendices – the AHO Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Princeton University and the University of Lausanne.

Funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant number: 231090) made it possible for this book to be published open access, making the digital version freely available for anyone to read and reuse under a Creative Commons licence. Additional subsidies towards the print publication were generously provided by the University of Lausanne and the Société Académique Vaudoise, while the preparatory conference was supported by the DFG German Research Foundation. Finally, our thanks go to Edgar Mendez, Nigel Graves and Julene Knox, who handled our manuscript at Cambridge University Press, and especially to Beatrice Rehl, who guided us through the editorial process with patient and masterly expertise.